Category Archives: Women

Farming, Gardening, and Female Labor: Carmen de Burgos’ “La mujer agricultora” (1903)

Posted on May 29, 2020 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

Now that the crazy and unpredictable Spring 2020 Covid19-semester is finally over, and since I’ll now be spending my entire summer in Kansas rather than in Spain and Mexico, I am working to shift my focus back to writing and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, First-wave spanish feminism, History, Literature, Spain, Women | Tagged agriculture, Carmen de Burgos, city, country, femininity, gardens, Joaquin Sorolla, maruja mallo, museo sorolla, rural, science, spanish literature, technology | 2 Comments

Spanish Women’s Literature and Feminism for the L2 classroom: Tsunami, Miradas feministas (2019)

Posted on February 27, 2020 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

Since I last wrote about my favorite book from 2019, I thought it made sense to move on to one of my other top reads, which was another one of the MANY books I carried home after spending most of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, Literature, Spain, Women | Tagged autobiography, books, catholicism, femininity, Feminism, Laura Freixas, literature, Maria Sanchez, Marta Sanz, motherhood, Nuria Barrios, religion, rural, Sara Mesa, Spain, spanish literature, teaching | 4 Comments

Tierra de mujeres (Land of Women) and the Myth of an “Empty Spain”

Posted on January 17, 2020 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

Somehow I only managed to write 4 blog posts in 2019; and with all the “end-of-the-year” reflections and round-ups going around, I started to feel like I hadn’t really accomplished much. But when I sat down to think about Jan-Dec … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, Literature, Spain, Women | Tagged book review, books, city, culture, environment, Feminism, Maria Sanchez, pueblo, rural, spanish literature, study abroad | 6 Comments

María Victoria de la Fuente Alonso’s Scenes of Sleep in Galicia

Posted on November 4, 2019 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

When I was in Spain in the summer of 2018, one of my friends welcomed me to her home in Pontevedra, where I stayed for a few days to explore this region of Galicia for the first time. She was … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Spain, Women | Tagged art, galicia, Maria Victoria de la Fuente Alonso, museo de Pontevedra, museums, posguerra, Spain, women | Leave a comment

A New History of Iberian Feminisms (review)

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

Bermúdez, Silvia and Roberta Johnson, eds. A New History of Iberian Feminisms. U of Toronto P, 2018. 522 pp. (My full-length, non-illustrated(!) review will be published with Feministas Unidas in 2018. I ‘ll link here when it’s available, or you … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, First-wave spanish feminism, Spain, Women | Tagged book review, books, Feminism, history, Spain, women's history | 1 Comment

Multiple Modernities: New essays on Carmen de Burgos (review)

Posted on June 17, 2018 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

Review: Anja Louis and Michelle M. Sharp, eds. Multiple Modernities: Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist. Routledge, 2017. 224 pp. I recently finished writing a review of Anja Louis and Michelle Sharp’s new volume of essays on Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932), a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, First-wave spanish feminism, Literature, Modernity, Spain, Women | Tagged book review, books, Carmen de Burgos, spanish literature | 3 Comments

Fashion and the Fine Arts in Carmen de Burgos’ Avant-garde Novel, La mujer fantástica

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

I’m going to start the new year with a post on my most recent article, “Fashion, Ekphrasis, and the Avant-Garde Novel: Carmen de Burgos’ La mujer fantástica (1924)”, which was published in the open-access journal Ciberletras in December 2017. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Literature, Modernity, Spain, Women | Tagged 1920s, art history, avant garde, Carmen de Burgos, ekphrasis, Empress Eugenie, fashion, novel, Paris, vanguardia, Winterhalter | 5 Comments

Urban Spain through Literature: Literary Maps of Madrid and Barcelona

Posted on September 19, 2017 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

Anyone who has ever traveled with me knows I am a bit obsessed with maps – I’m either wandering around following my route via Google Maps, attempting to get my bearings and update what I refer to as “my internal … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Feminism, History, Literature, Modernity, Spain, Women | Tagged Barcelona, Carmen de Burgos, madrid, maps, Margarita Nelken, Ramon Gomez de la Serna, urban studies, verbena | 2 Comments

Illustrating Spain’s Silver Age of Literature: Carmen de Burgos, Ramon, and “Bon”

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

I’ve been working for several months now on an article on Carmen de Burgos’s 1924 novel La mujer fantástica (The Amazing/Fantastic Woman), and my research has been focused a lot on European art history and the diverse visual imagery that … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Literature, Modernity, Spain, Women | Tagged 1920s, avant garde, Barcelona, Bon, books, Carmen de Burgos, madrid, Pablo Picasso, Ramon Gomez de la Serna, spanish art, spanish literature | 4 Comments

Matilde de la Torre and the Republican Courts in 1930s Spain

Posted on February 18, 2017 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

Last fall I was asked to review Las Cortes republicanas durante la Guerra Civil. Madrid 1936, Valencia 1937 y Barcelona 1938 for Feministas Unidas Inc., a non-profit Coalition of Feminist Scholars in Spanish, Spanish-American, Luso-Brazilian, Afro-Latin American, and U.S. Hispanic and … Continue reading →