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