Books by Michelle M Sharp
This collection of essays confirms Carmen de Burgos’s pivotal place in Spanish feminist history b... more This collection of essays confirms Carmen de Burgos’s pivotal place in Spanish feminist history by bringing together eminent international scholars who offer new readings of Burgos’s work. It includes the analyses of a number of lesser-known texts, both fictional and non-fictional, which give us a more comprehensive examination of Burgos’s multipronge feminist approach. Burgos’s works, especially her essays, are essential feminist reading and complement other European and North American traditions. Gaining familiarity with the breadth and depth of her work serves not only to provide an understanding of Spanish firstwave feminism, but also enriches our appreciation of cultural studies, gender studies, subaltern studies and travel literature. Looking at the entirety of her life and work, and the wide-ranging contributions in this volume, it is evident that Burgos embodied the tensions between tradition and modernity, depicting multiple representations of womanhood. Encouraging women to take ownership of their personal fashion, the design of their homes and the decorum of their families were steps towards recognizing a female population that was cognizant of its own desires.
Papers by Michelle M Sharp
Liverpool University Press eBooks, Oct 27, 2021
Intellect Books, May 1, 2017
Sustenance for the Body & Soul
Multiple Modernities: Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist, 2017, ISBN 978-0-367-66777-1, 2017
Multiple Modernities, 2017
This collection of essays confirms Carmen de Burgos’s pivotal place in Spanish feminist history b... more This collection of essays confirms Carmen de Burgos’s pivotal place in Spanish feminist history by bringing together eminent international scholars who offer new readings of Burgos’s work. It includes the analyses of a number of lesser-known texts, both fictional and non-fictional, which give us a more comprehensive examination of Burgos’s multipronge feminist approach. Burgos’s works, especially her essays, are essential feminist reading and complement other European and North American traditions. Gaining familiarity with the breadth and depth of her work serves not only to provide an understanding of Spanish firstwave feminism, but also enriches our appreciation of cultural studies, gender studies, subaltern studies and travel literature. Looking at the entirety of her life and work, and the wide-ranging contributions in this volume, it is evident that Burgos embodied the tensions between tradition and modernity, depicting multiple representations of womanhood. Encouraging women to take ownership of their personal fashion, the design of their homes and the decorum of their families were steps towards recognizing a female population that was cognizant of its own desires.
LARA ANDERSON, Cooking Up The Nation. Woodbridge, UK: Tamesis. 2013. 171 pp. ISBN 978-1-85566-246... more LARA ANDERSON, Cooking Up The Nation. Woodbridge, UK: Tamesis. 2013. 171 pp. ISBN 978-1-85566-246-9.In Cooking Up The Nation Lara Anderson has written an essential text for scholars and students interested in questions of cultural studies, Spanish nation building, food studies, and modernity during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This monograph is leading the charge in a new branch of Peninsular Studies that investigates noncanonical texts in order that contemporary scholars may create a more complete view of the past centuries' Spanish intellectual cultural nation-building project. Anderson maintains that writing about food is of equal importance to any other topic in our pursuit of understanding Spain's path towards modernity. As of its publication, Anderson's text is the first book-length examination of the topic.This monograph brings to the forefront four different voices, of varying levels of renown, in the discussion of Spanish culinary modernity...
S/He: Sex & Gender in Hispanic Cultures, 2017
This chapter considers the often-overlooked culinary contributions of two celebrated Spanish firs... more This chapter considers the often-overlooked culinary contributions of two celebrated Spanish first-wave feminists. While known for their popular fictional texts, Emilia Pardo Bazán and Carmen de Burgos each wrote under-studied cookbooks: Pardo Bazán’s La cocina española antigua (1913) and La cocina española moderna (1917) (as a part of her published series the Biblioteca de la mujer) and Burgos’s ¿Quiere Ud. comer bien? (1917), La cocina moderna (1918) and La cocina práctica (1920). These rich texts have been largely overlooked in the study of these authors since, as encyclopedic non-narrative texts, they lack the prestige attributed to the narratives or essays that dominate the canon. By devaluing these practical texts, we risk missing insight into Spanish women’s daily lives. Scholars also lose access as to how these authors sought for their readers to define themselves, both in terms of the application of practical feminism and their efforts to define and modernize the Spanish nation with a role for women as a crucial part.
Exploring why these authors devoted themselves to writing texts on domestic matters allows to appreciate the astounding depth and breadth of their multifaceted writing profiles. Taking into account the socio-cultural context of the time, we are able to recognize that seemingly mundane texts now considered to be feminine and traditional were not necessarily so at the time. These cookbooks sought to liberate their readers, largely newly-literate women of the middle class, from the angel of the hearth discourse that intended to confine them to the domestic realm. These cookbooks were in fact bold educational tools written by women in a field dominated by male authors. While women were in charge of the daily meals of the family, they were excluded from professional writing about the topic. The simple act of publishing these texts challenges that norm.
In this chapter I will detail how Pardo Bazán and Burgos subverted the genre of domestic writing in order to further their notions of reform. Their individual goals and style of writing are quite different with Pardo Bazán’s fiercely nationalist view in contrast with Burgos’s goal of international awareness. Even so, a comparison of their introductions, the recipes themselves, and the organization of the texts provide a dialogue of proposed pathways to change. Their respective cookbooks introduce innovations that seek to empower women as a part of the post-1898 efforts to modernize Spain.
Kiosk Literature of Silver Age Spain: Modernity and Mass Culture, 2017
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 2016
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Exploring why these authors devoted themselves to writing texts on domestic matters allows to appreciate the astounding depth and breadth of their multifaceted writing profiles. Taking into account the socio-cultural context of the time, we are able to recognize that seemingly mundane texts now considered to be feminine and traditional were not necessarily so at the time. These cookbooks sought to liberate their readers, largely newly-literate women of the middle class, from the angel of the hearth discourse that intended to confine them to the domestic realm. These cookbooks were in fact bold educational tools written by women in a field dominated by male authors. While women were in charge of the daily meals of the family, they were excluded from professional writing about the topic. The simple act of publishing these texts challenges that norm.
In this chapter I will detail how Pardo Bazán and Burgos subverted the genre of domestic writing in order to further their notions of reform. Their individual goals and style of writing are quite different with Pardo Bazán’s fiercely nationalist view in contrast with Burgos’s goal of international awareness. Even so, a comparison of their introductions, the recipes themselves, and the organization of the texts provide a dialogue of proposed pathways to change. Their respective cookbooks introduce innovations that seek to empower women as a part of the post-1898 efforts to modernize Spain.
Book Reviews by Michelle M Sharp
Exploring why these authors devoted themselves to writing texts on domestic matters allows to appreciate the astounding depth and breadth of their multifaceted writing profiles. Taking into account the socio-cultural context of the time, we are able to recognize that seemingly mundane texts now considered to be feminine and traditional were not necessarily so at the time. These cookbooks sought to liberate their readers, largely newly-literate women of the middle class, from the angel of the hearth discourse that intended to confine them to the domestic realm. These cookbooks were in fact bold educational tools written by women in a field dominated by male authors. While women were in charge of the daily meals of the family, they were excluded from professional writing about the topic. The simple act of publishing these texts challenges that norm.
In this chapter I will detail how Pardo Bazán and Burgos subverted the genre of domestic writing in order to further their notions of reform. Their individual goals and style of writing are quite different with Pardo Bazán’s fiercely nationalist view in contrast with Burgos’s goal of international awareness. Even so, a comparison of their introductions, the recipes themselves, and the organization of the texts provide a dialogue of proposed pathways to change. Their respective cookbooks introduce innovations that seek to empower women as a part of the post-1898 efforts to modernize Spain.