Publication: “Entre lo útil y lo bello”: lecturas, poder y placer en la Residencia de Señoritas (1930-1936)
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2019
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A principios del siglo XX muchos espacios de sociabilidad femenina en España se caracterizan por crear hábitos, disposiciones, y saberes en mujeres universitarias. Uno de esos espacios es la denominada Residencia de Señoritas, fundada en 1915. Esta institución se dedicó a desarrollar prácticas tutelares para la educación de mujeres que se trasladaban a Madrid para cursar estudios universitarios. Como parte de la educación de estas mujeres en el refinamiento de las costumbres y las normas de cortesía, el ejercicio de ciertas prácticas de lectura se consideró un objetivo legítimo y útil por parte de las educadoras. Siguiendo los estudios históricos y socio-antropológicos que se alejan de una mirada que universaliza las prácticas culturales de la lectura, en este trabajo nos interesa analizar, desde una perspectiva de género, la conformación de lectoras en el marco de la Biblioteca de la Residencia de Señoritas (1915-1936), entendida como lugar que provee y sostiene la práctica de la lectura en base a una trama de relaciones bajo determinados procesos de diferenciación social y cultural.
“Between the Useful and the Beautiful”: Reading, Power and Pleasure in the Residencia de Señoritas (1930-1936).- In the early 20th century many spaces of female sociability in Spain were characterised by the creation of habits, dispositions and forms of knowledge in University women. One of those spaces was the so-called Residencia de Señoritas [the Young Women’ Hall of Residence], founded in 1915. This institution developed tutelary practices for the education of women that went to Madrid to undertake University studies. As part of the residents’ training in refined behaviour and politeness rules, the cultivation of certain reading practices were considered a legitimate and useful aim by the educators. Following historical, social and anthropological studies that depart from a consideration that universalizes these reading practices, this essay uses a gender perspective to analyse the shaping of female readership in the context of the Hall of Residence’s Library (1915–1936). The library is understood as a space that provides and sustains reading as a practice set in a network of processes of social and cultural differentiation.
“Between the Useful and the Beautiful”: Reading, Power and Pleasure in the Residencia de Señoritas (1930-1936).- In the early 20th century many spaces of female sociability in Spain were characterised by the creation of habits, dispositions and forms of knowledge in University women. One of those spaces was the so-called Residencia de Señoritas [the Young Women’ Hall of Residence], founded in 1915. This institution developed tutelary practices for the education of women that went to Madrid to undertake University studies. As part of the residents’ training in refined behaviour and politeness rules, the cultivation of certain reading practices were considered a legitimate and useful aim by the educators. Following historical, social and anthropological studies that depart from a consideration that universalizes these reading practices, this essay uses a gender perspective to analyse the shaping of female readership in the context of the Hall of Residence’s Library (1915–1936). The library is understood as a space that provides and sustains reading as a practice set in a network of processes of social and cultural differentiation.