Ladies of Honor and Merit: Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain, by Elena Serrano

• Elizabeth Kambas ^[1]
  1. [1] Indiana University Bloomington

     Indiana University Bloomington

     Township of Bloomington, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Nuncius: annali di storia della scienza, ISSN 0394-7394, Vol. 39, Nº. 2, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Special issue: touching visions intersensoriality and gender in the history of science), págs. 550-553
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Bibliographic review about the Elena Serrano's book, Ladies of Honor and Merit: gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain. The overarching thesis of Elena Serrano's book, is one of arguing how the Spanish salonnière, the Duchess Countess of Benevente (1752-1834), long with her peers in the Madrid-based social group -the Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito (c.1787, hereafter, "Junta")- were able to engage with the increasingly liberal configuration of the Enlighted Spanish state via creation, application, and dissemination of "useful knowledge" as a means of improving practical problems amongst it citizens