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This article aims to shed some light on the perception of female virginity in the medieval West. A moral, social and legal insight, heir to the religious misogynist conceptualisation that would shape the actions of communities, families, and legislators in order to safeguard, at least until marriage, that precious good as a lost Edenic symbol of the creation still unspoiled by the original sin. In this way, both premarital sex and rape of virgins are punished severely and the preservation of the maidenhead of future brides is monetarily rewarded. All this responding to the interest of a patrilineal society that endowed women and their virginity with a unique and indissoluble value as an economic asset in the different strategies aimed at establishing strong marriage alliances between the different lineages. Consequently, the worth of women as a daughter and bride would always remain, to some extent, linked to the conservation of their virginity. Such a circumstance seems evident, under its most restrictive way, in the different rules and regulations governing marriage as well as in the varied seigneurial exactions that continued to increase the income of the lordship at the cost of restraining women’s sexual freedom. As the title of this article indicates, starting from a more generalized perspective, the conceptualisation of virginity has been examined in the Welsh law and more specifically in the regulation concerning women and developed from legal entities such as amobr, cowyll, and agweddi.

OBJECTIVE. Taking into account the two classic senses of vulnerability in the social sciences—the anthropological and the social—the purpose of this article is to introduce the Butlerian conceptualization of vulnerability—understood as an act of power and resistance—as a key theoretical-methodological tool for understanding and analyzing women’s perinatal experiences. MATERIAL AND METHOD. The reference thesis analyzed various instances of medical care of the perinatal process in the city of La Plata, with complementary methodological techniques: observations with different degrees of participation in prepartum courses and waiting rooms; in-depth interviews with women-mothers, men-fathers, and health professionals; and an extensive corpus of informal talks and presences in the field, between 2013 and 2019. RESULTS. In the reinterpretation of the data corpus, three main senses were noted in which the vulnerability of women associated with obstetric care of their reproductive processes emerged: a) Vulnerability to medical decision (loss of autonomy); b) Vulnerability enhanced by other associated vulnerabilities; c) Vulnerability and resistance, empowerment. CONCLUSIONS. Starting from the cross between a new conceptual lens to understand vulnerability, I analyzed birth experiences of women from La Plata. I warned that in these experiences and taking into account their own evaluations of care in different areas -public, private or home- it is possible to trace three types of vulnerability: a) to the medical decision—loss of autonomy—; b) powered by other vulnerabilities; and, c) as a catalyst for empowerment.

This article presents the partial results of a larger investigation aimed at knowing the circulating meanings of motherhood, childhood and their care in a healthcare system in Chile. To achieve this aim, a metaphor analysis was performed using the metaphor identification procedure (MIP) applied to a textual corpus made up of reading materials produced and used by the system. The results indicate that the different forms through which the maternal body is represented, from inanimate objects to a business practice, allow knowing a wide range of imaginaries, ambivalences and demands that are made of maternal practices in the health context and that shape gender inequalities. We conclude that motherhood continues to be embedded in the imaginary of nature as a private and hermetic experience in which the figure of the mother-child binomial continues to be fundamental for the health objectives to which new demands linked to the reproduction of human capital have been added. This hinders alternative ways of representing motherhood, the negotiations of maternal identities, other desires that inhabit women, and the differential positions and interests between children and women.

King Peter I of Castile, moved by his authoritarian politics and economic ambitions, became a huge benefactor of the Sephardi community. However, this pro-Jewish attitude was used by Henry of Trastámara as a fail-safe propaganda weapon during the First Castilian Civil War. In order to win people over to his cause, count Henry influenced the public consciousness against the Jews; he even attacked some Castilian Jewries. Tránsito Synagogue of Toledo it is a material testimony of these events and a building full of political connotations and purpose.    

In the middle of the 16th century, Cosimo I de’ Medici brought again glory to his family in Florence and close cities spreading art, culture and humanism that pretended to recover the Florentine power of the Quattrocento, encouraging the patronage and the best artists in the moment as other great personalities of the past and recent times.    

Throughout the following lines we aim to answer why the Puerto Rican history of literature has always been predominantely male in spite of the existence of female writers during the first half-century of the 20th century. Thus, the deep analysis of the Puerto Rican literature written in the 1930 and 1940s, the literary canon and the lack of female names into it, especially Julia de Burgos, whose work has been relevant enough for the academics to review literature histories to make a change in order to add the missing females names into antologies.  

The main point of this essay revolves around two axes: the representation of the quinqui subjectivities in the escopic regime of the Navajeros film, by Eloy de la Iglesia, and the approach to the urbanization policies of postfranchism as the enfine of demographic changes in cities and as a conditioning practice of human behavior in today’s society. For this, a film like Navajeros is so interesting both for the staging of violence in the urban enviroment of Madrid and for the relationship it establishes between different architectures and geographical spaces of the city.

In this article, we propose a study of El mal querer (Rosalía, 2018) based on a formal, aesthetic and iconographic analysis of the five video clips published until now. A symbolic approach to its conceptual universe is defended, postulating the creation of a particular imaginary through the resignification of categories such as the urban, the religious and the Spanish.    

In this article we have proceeded to the study of the different merchants at the service of Queen Elisabeth de Farnese.One of the most striking aspects is the amount of fabrics that were sent to the entire royal family, the most important being taffetas and silks embroidered with different ornamental motifs. Among the most important merchants are Martin Boucher, Manuel Merino and Pedro Fernandez de Recas, who were very important men for the construction of the royal image of the queen.