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Danielle Terrazas Williams, The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico (Yale, 2022).
Society Women and Enlightened Charity in Spain: The Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito, 1787–1823, Catherine M. Jaffe & Elisa Martín-Valdepeñas Yagüe, eds (LSU Press, 2022).
1 Introduction: The Junta de Damas, Charity, and Feminism Catherine M. Jaffe and Elisa Martín-Valdepeñas Yagüe
I. Feminine Philanthropy in Spain 19
Women in Patriotic Societies: A Spanish Debate in a European Context, Mónica Bolufer Peruga 37
The Decisive Intervention of Josefa Amar y Borbón: Defending Women’s Talent and Education during the Enlightenment, María Victoria López-Cordón Cortezo 62
Women’s Associationism and the Pursuit of Public Happiness, 1787–1823, Elisa Martín-Valdepeñas Yagüe 83
Women and Charity between the Spaces of Enlightened Reformism and the Moderado Liberal State, Madrid, 1833–1868, Mónica Burguera López
II. Forgotten Foremothers of a Collective History 105
María Josefa Alfonso Pimentel, Countess-Duchess of Benavente, 1750–1834: An Aristocrat at the Service of the Enlightenment, Paloma Fernández Quintanilla 120
María Francisca de Sales Portocarrero, Countess of Montijo, 1754–1808: An Atypical Biography in the Age of Enlightenment, Gloria Franco Rubio 135
María Lorenza de los Ríos, Marquise of Fuerte-Híjar, 1761–1821: Reformism and Culture, Catherine M. Jaffe 151
María Tomasa Palafox, Marquise of Villafranca, 1780–1835: A Life in Times of Crisis, Gloria Espigado Tocino 167
Veiled Biographies: The Other Women of the Junta de Damas, Elisa Martín-Valdepeñas Yagüe
III. The Junta de Damas’Contributions to Enlightenment Projects 185
Helping by Teaching: The Junta’s Role in Women’s Education, Josefina Méndez Vázquez 202
Practicing Social Activism: The Spaces of Women’s Charity, Elizabeth Franklin Lewis 220
Networks of Enlightenment: Women Writers and the Republic of Letters, Catherine M. Jaffe 237
Representing the Feminine Ideal: Portraits of the Members of the Junta de Damas, Álvaro Molina 255
Epilogue: The Junta de Damas, the Enlightenment, and Feminism, Catherine M. Jaffe and Elisa Martín-Valdepeñas Yagüe
Bryon Ellsworth Hamann, The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844 (Getty Publications, 2022).
Karen B. Graubart, Republics of Difference: Racial and Religious Self-Governance in the Iberian Atlantic, 1400-1650 (OUP, 2022).
Trajectories of Empire: Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora, Jerome C. Branche, ed. (Vanderbilt, 2022).
Introduction | Jerome C. Branche
Part I: The Iberian Scenario
Chapter 1: Tracing the “Fragmentary Facts” of a Foundational Slave Voyage | Elizabeth R. Wright
Chapter 2: Christianos nigros: Afro-Iberian Confraternities’ Social and Cultural Roles | Miguel A. Valerio
Chapter 3: In Search of the Black Swordsman: Race and Martial Arts Discourse in Early Modern Iberia | Manuel Olmedo Gobante
Chapter 4: On Enslaving and Impalement: The “Life” and Death of Chicaba, Black Woman Saint in Empire | Jerome C. Branche
Part II: Continuing Expansionism and the Circum-Atlantic
Chapter 5: Facing the Enslaved: Explorations for a Transatlantic Archive | Agnes Lugo-Ortiz
Chapter 6: A Postcard from Wakanda to the King of Spain: The Portrait of the Mulatos de Esmeraldas (1599) | Baltasar Fra-Molinero
Chapter 7: A Transhistorical and Translocal View of the Luso-Brazilian Imperial/Colonial World through the Poetry of Gregório de Matos (1636–1695) to Domingos Caldas Barbosa (1740–1800) | Lúcia Helena Costigan
Chapter 8: Silences and the Corporeal: The Enslaved Body in (Historical) Pain | Cassia Roth
Part III: Afro-Latin America: Black Marginality in the New Century
Chapter 9: Racial Dynamics and Tensions in Twenty-First Century Post-Revolutionary Cuba | Alberto Abreu
Chapter 10: Senzalas e Quilombos Modernos: Evoking the Legacy of Slavery in Brazilian Hip Hop | Eliseo Jacob
Chapter 11: Honoring the Bones beneath Us: Conjuring Black Heritage in the Performances of “Intervenções Urbanas” in the Gamboa Neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro | Maria Andrea dos Santos Soares
José Lingna Nafafé, Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, 2022).
Jeremy Robbins, Incomparable Realms: Spain during the Golden Age, 1500-1700 (Chicago, 2022).
Charlene Villaseñor Black, Transforming Saints: From Spain to New Spain (Vanderbilt, 2022).
Germán Jiménez-Montes, A Dissimulated Trade: Northern European Timber Merchants in Seville (1574-1598) (Brill, 2022).
Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, baronne d’Aulnoy, Travels into Spain, ed. and trans. Gabrielle Verdier (Iter, 2022).
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