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Wednesday 30 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
E-3 WOM03 Crossroads of the Gendered Self
Aula 2, Nivel 0
Network: Women and Gender Chair: Mónica Bolufer Peruga
Organizer: Mónica Burguera Discussant: Isabel Burdiel
Carolina Blutrach-Jelín : "Gender, Autobiography and Memory in the Travel Diary of the VI Count of Fernán Núñez"
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Mónica Burguera : "Questioning the Gendered Mind: Women's Romantic Self, and the Struggle over Female Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Spain"
To be completed soon

Anne Logan : Public or Private? A Consideration of Women's War Diaries as Historical Artefacts
War diaries have long provided staple archive material for historians as well as contributing to wider, public perceptions of the past. For example, in Great Britain, many readers had their first historical introduction to women’s war experiences through Testament of Youth (1933), the celebrated memoir of writer Vera Brittain, ... (Show more)
War diaries have long provided staple archive material for historians as well as contributing to wider, public perceptions of the past. For example, in Great Britain, many readers had their first historical introduction to women’s war experiences through Testament of Youth (1933), the celebrated memoir of writer Vera Brittain, itself based upon her own contemporaneous diaries and subsequently made into a television series, and more recently, a film. Yet the centenary of the First World War brings the importance and role of women’s war diaries as historical evidence into even sharper focus. The past two years have witnessed a publishing boom in war-related works, including the publication and re-publication of lesser-known diaries. From a range of authors, literary figures and ‘amateur’ writers, from well-known celebrities and unknown women, these works bring a wide range of voices and perspectives to bear on the experience of living through a so-called ‘total war’. This paper intends to pose a series of question about women’s war diaries and problematize their use in the context of a centennial memorialization of war. Among other examples, the paper focuses on a recently-discovered diary of an upper-class housewife in Southern England and examines the journey it has undertaken from a treasured, if neglected family possession to an artefact in a national collection. (Show less)

Raúl Mínguez : “Women Inspired by God? Personal Writings by Religious Founders in Nineteenth-Century Spain”
To be completed soon

Carolin Schmitz : Women’s gout and men’s impotence. Gendered illness experience and active involvement in the search for relief in 17th and early 18th century Spain.
In the last 30 years, the history of the patient has become an established research field in the European social history of medicine. Nonetheless, in the Spanish early modern historiography, the patient as a historic category only recently and in few exceptions starts to be taken into consideration. As ... (Show more)
In the last 30 years, the history of the patient has become an established research field in the European social history of medicine. Nonetheless, in the Spanish early modern historiography, the patient as a historic category only recently and in few exceptions starts to be taken into consideration. As a contribution to fill this gap, the author’s current research project seeks to reconstruct the perceptions and behaviors of the sick in 17th and early 18th century Castile. Embedded in this broader project, the present paper aims to shed light on the specific gendered experience of illness. By drawing on diverse archival sources – testimonies of patients from inquisitorial trials and criminal law proceedings as well as patient letters – it explores distinct patterns of conduct of women and men when falling ill, either themselves or another person closely related to them. Particular interest will be set on therapeutic choices made by women leading to inner family conflicts; on the active collaboration of female and male members of the household in curing and caring tasks; and, on communicative strategies applied by men to overcome a highly gendered disease such as impotence. (Show less)



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