20/05/2024 14:15 - 15:15

HALL: LA PIRA - ROOM 3

Proponent: Muñoz M.

Chair: Escrig C.

Speaker: Escrig C., Muñoz M., Núñez-Bargueño N., Ramirez Guerra M.

The starting point of this book is the definition of sorority as "a group formed by friendship and reciprocity between women who share the same ideal and work towards the same goal" (Real Academia Española). The volume uses primary sources and a wide range of updated bibliography for showing women linked by the aforementioned bonds, and not by searching isolated empowerment targets.


In the 19th century, it focuses on the Asociación de Socorro de Religiosas de Madrid, organised by aristocratic women to assist exclaustrated nuns during the period of exalted liberalism, on women's access to the Ateneo de Madrid, the most important intellectual centre in 19th-century Spain, and on the relations between European missionaries (Anglican laywomen and Catholic nuns) and indigenous African women in the 19th and 20th centuries.


In the 20th century, it revolves around the sorority networks of the Spanish poet Ernestina de Champourcin, a member of the generation of '27. Also, on American pioneers such as Kate Miller, Robin Morgan, Hazel Carby and the Mexican Marcela Lagarde, whose trail was followed by a wide variety of scholars devoted to women's history: Mary Beard, Miriam Holden, Miriam Holden, Eugenie Leonard, Jill Conway, Gerda Lerner and Natalie Davis. Another perspective addressed is the narrative and action of suffragette Dorothy Day, Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, Jane Hawking, Katharine Graham and the Nobel Prize winner Sihrin Ebadi.