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Category Archives: Women
Farming, Gardening, and Female Labor: Carmen de Burgos’ “La mujer agricultora” (1903)
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
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Tierra de mujeres (Land of Women) and the Myth of an “Empty Spain”
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
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María Victoria de la Fuente Alonso’s Scenes of Sleep in Galicia
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
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A New History of Iberian Feminisms (review)
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
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Multiple Modernities: New essays on Carmen de Burgos (review)
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
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Fashion and the Fine Arts in Carmen de Burgos’ Avant-garde Novel, La mujer fantástica
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
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