Mónica Bolufer
Specializing in
- Spanish literature
- 18th century discourse on gender
- women's writing
- privacy and domesticity
- the secularization of morality in conduct books and medical advice literature
- the making of European identities
- cultural contacts between Spain and the rest of Europe
Personal website
Some recent publications relevant for NEWW
- Mujeres e Ilustración. La construcción de la feminidad en la España del siglo XVIII. Valencia, 1998
- (with Isabel Morant): Amor, matrimonio y familia. La construcción histórica de la familia moderna. Madrid, 1998
- "On women's reason, education and love. Women and Men of the Enlightenment in Spain and France", Gender and History, vol. 10, nº 2 (1998), pp. 183-216 (with I. Morant)
- "Culture and gender in Spain: the Ambiguities of Enlightenment", History Workshop Journal, nº 44 (1998), pp. 261-267
- "Considering Feminism and Enlightenment", Women. A Cultural Review, vol. 12/2 (2001), pp. 237-240
- "Josefa Amar y Borbón. Une intelectuelle espagnole dans les débats des Lumières", Clio. Histoire, Femmes et Sociétés, nº 13 (2001), pp. 69-97 (with I. Morant)
- "Neither male, nor female: rational equality in the Spanish Enlightenment", in Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds.), Women, gender and Enlightenment. London, Palgrave, 2005, pp. 389-409
- "Introduction" to Section 4. Gender and the Reasoning Mind, in Taylor and Knott, 2005, pp. 189-194
- "Inés Joyes y Blake", "Josefa Amar y Borbón", "Father Benito Jerónimo Feijoo", biographical entries in Taylor and Knott, 2005, pp. 719-720 and 726-727
- (ass.editor to) Isabel Morant (ed.), Historia de las mujeres en España y América Latina. Madrid, 2005-2006, 4 volumes
- La vida y la escritura en el siglo XVIII. Inés Joyes: "Apología de las mujeres". Valencia, PUV, 2008
- "Women of letters in eighteenth-century Spain: between tradition and modernity", in Catherine Jaffe and Elizabeth F. Lewis (eds.), La Ilustración de Eva: The Experience of Hispanic Women during the Enlightenment. Baton Rouge, Louisiana University Press, 2009, ch. 1
- "Conversations from a distance: Spanish and French eighteenth-century women writers", in Xon de Ros and Geraldine Coats (eds.), Companion to Spanish women's studies. Boyd and Brewell (forthcoming).
- "Femmes et hommes dans la société idéale: les Sociétés économiques des amis du pays dans l'Espagne des Lumières", in Dix-huitième Siècle 43 (2011), pp. 487-504.
Realized or planned activities/publications in NEWW-context
- Participation in The Hague Study Day, September 2007.
- Participating, as member of the Management Committee and of Working Group 3, in COST Action IS 0901 “Women Writers in History” (2009-2013); cf. COST website.
- "Translation and Intellectual Reflection in the Works of Enlightened Spanish Women: Inés Joyes (1731-1808)", in Anke Gillier, Alicia C. Montoya, Suzan van Dijk (eds.), Women Writing Back/Writing Women Back. Transnational Perspectives from the Late Middle Ages to the Dawn of the Modern Era. Leiden, Brill, 2010.
- Contributing to COST-WWIH workshop Turku 24-26 May 2010.
- The Reception of European women's writing in eighteenth-century Spain.
- Director of Research group "The civilization of manners and the discipline of behaviour (XVIIth to XIXth centuries)", financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (HAR 2008-04113, 2008-2011).
- Participating in the Action conference Voices in Dialogue, Chawton 3-5 November 2011
- (with Juan Gomis Coloma) "European women writers translated into Spanish in the XVIIIthe century: a global approach", in Guyonne Leduc (ed.), Les rôles transfrontaliers joués par les femmes dans la construction de l'Europe. Paris, L'Harmattan, 2012, p. 33-44. (abstract Bolufer-Gomis)
- Participating in the International Workshop "Collaborating in networks: preparing future projects", Münster 3-5 April 2013
E-mail
- Monica.Bolufer[at]uv.es
More details
AsK, March 2013
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