Tag Archives: medical history

The Body, Blood, and Soul of Spanish Modernity: review of Life Embodied

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

It’s been quite awhile since I’ve been able to find the time to put up a new post! Aside from a few weeks during my summer trip to Spain where I managed to write about two fantastic new books (A … Continue reading →

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Murderous Mothers and the Discourse of Infanticide

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

This post is admittedly a slightly odd compilation of images and ideas – It seems that over the past several months I’ve been researching or teaching about murderous mothers in literature, film, history, and popular culture: from the assassination of … Continue reading →

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The Red Virgin: Motherhood and Power Dynamics

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

“I shall do as you request, and tell you everything about myself […] You may like me, but I am not alive.” –Hildegarte, played by Ivana Baquero in The Red Virgin “I will do as you ask and tell you … Continue reading →

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Pretty Women Use Birth Control – my guest post at Nursing Clio

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

I’m very excited to have written a guest post for one of my favorite blogs, Nursing Clio. For this piece, I re-visited my very first blog post in which I critiqued, with a sort of “literary analysis” approach, the function … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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