Author Archives: Dr. Rebecca Bender

About Dr. Rebecca Bender

Spanish professor

Assassination of the Modern Woman: Hildegart and Aurora Rodríguez

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

UPDATE: April 7, 2014 – I assigned the film and podcast in my Spanish literature seminar this semester; read about my lesson plans and student responses here. This week I found an excellent short film on the murder of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, First-wave spanish feminism, Science and Medicine, Women | Tagged Aurora Rodriguez, Birth Control, Eugenics, Feminism, first-wave spanish feminism, Hildegart Rodríguez, maternity, medical history, motherhood, pseudoscience, Spain, spanish, teaching spanish, women | 5 Comments

Painting the Spanish Civil War

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

(For more information, see my more recent post with details on teaching Guernica in conjunction with Vicente Aleixandre’s poem “Oda a los niños de Madrid muertos por la metralla”, Dec. 2015). In my (Spanish) Introduction to Textual Analysis course, my … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Pedagogy, Spanish Civil War, Surrealism | Tagged art, avant garde, guernica, pedagogy, picasso, Salvador Dali, spanish art, spanish civil war, surrealism, teaching spanish | 20 Comments

Social History and Spanish Anarchism: Prostitution, Motherhood, and Free Love

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

During my dissertation research, I spent lots of time searching for several, quite obscure short novelas written throughout the 1920s by Spanish anarcho-feminist Federica Montseny. Somehow I came across the website for The International Institute for Social History, located in Amsterdam. The Institute … Continue reading →

Posted in First-wave spanish feminism, Literature, Spain, Women | Tagged Anarchism, Barcelona, books, Feminism, first-wave spanish feminism, free love, literature, maternity, medical history, Montseny, motherhood, Novela Ideal, Novela Libre, prostitution, Revista Blanca, Spain, spanish, spanish literature, women | 5 Comments

The Silent Woman: Use Birth Control, Stay Attractive

Posted on September 1, 2013 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

UPDATE: April 2014 – I expanded upon this post and the historical background of the Disney film for my guest post over at Nursing Clio. Check out the lengthier version here. I recently came across this amazing vintage video on … Continue reading →