Society women and enlightened charity in Spain : the Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito, 1787-1823
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Society women and enlightened charity in Spain : the Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito, 1787-1823
（New hispanisms: cultural and literary studies）
Louisiana State University Press, c2022
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-311) and index
Summary: "Established by King Carlos III in 1787, the Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito is the oldest feminine, secular, philanthropic association in Spain. During the early decades of its existence, the Junta de Damas instituted a series of innovative reforms and scientific experiments as they ran Madrid's foundling hospital, women's prison, and schools for impoverished women and children. Society Women and Enlightened Charity in Spain presents the Junta de Damas as an important, understudied chapter in the history of women's accession to the public sphere, both in Spain and in the wider context of the Enlightenment. An interdisciplinary collaboration between historians and literary scholars in Spain and the United States, this collection provides the first book-length, comprehensive study of the early years of the Junta de Damas. It makes available for the first time in English a holistic account of the early decades of the organization, from its creation in 1787, through the Napoleonic invasion in 1808 and