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Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic book cover

1st Edition

Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic

Edited By Emily Colbert Cairns, Nieves Romero-Diaz Copyright 2024
314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge
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Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic is the first volume to emphasize women’s personal experiences and their life trajectories as mothers within the Peninsula and across the Atlantic. Although an official discourse that defined the conditions of motherhood emerged in the eighteenth century, before this period there were many different articulations of motherhood through which women... Read more
List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, I. Defining Maternity, II. Becoming Pregnant and Giving Birth, III. Daily Living Motherhood, Afterword, List of Contributors (in alphabetical order), Index

Biography

Emily Colbert Cairns is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Salve Regina University. She specializes in gender and conversos. She is the author of Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora: Queen of the Conversas and co-editor of Confined Women: The Walls of Female Space in Early Modern Spain. Nieves Romero-Díaz is Professor of Spanish on the Alumnae Foundation at Mount Holyoke College. Her research explores the intersection of politics and emotions in women’s lives and their writings. Among her many publications, it is worth highlighting Nueva nobleza, nueva novela, Warning to the Kings and Advice of Restoring Spain: A Bilingual Edition and her work on María de Ágreda’s correspondence.

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