Seminar

The place of women in history. Broadening the limits of historical knowledge.

Creator Women Cycle

Director

Isabel Morant Deusa. Former Full-Time Professor, Universitat de València

6 Sessions (Monday):

20 October, 10 November 15 December 2025

19 January, 16 February and 30 March 2026

Schedule: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Location: Seminar Room. La Nau Cultural Centre

Calle Universidad, 2. 46003 València

Synopsis

Simone de Beauvoir once wrote Knowing is better than not knowing. The notion of social and political conditions influencing and determining the elaboration of identities, relations of sexes and the places for men and women within the social, politic and familial life is one necessary step to understand differences and inequalities of sexes, of women, and to think of the changes in those relations. These new studies, women represented as passive objects under the power emerge as active subjects who overcome the imposed borders within society.

Women history is not specific to the female sex. Written, just like Virginia Woolf asked, not lacking in irony, as: a complement of history in which women could be represented without impropriety is not a new notion without which History, in capital letters, would be unreal and incomplete. 

Brought by researchers and teachers of different levels of education who came to know the limitations of the stablished programmes in their career, the course is aimed for teaching staff interested in the renovation of imparted history, in order to help the needs and preferences of students and a broader public who recognise the matters of women and gender history as a new and stimulant knowledge to reflect on ourselves, understand and create the life and world we want.

Programme

20 October 25

Building a historiography

What are we talking about when referring to women and gender history?

The different lines and advances in its development. The history of women in Histor: how to teach it?

Isabel Morant Deusa. Former Full-Time Professor, Universitat de València

Rosa Ríos Lloret. Full-Time Professor in History for Secondary Education

INSCRIPTION: https://links.uv.es/aqsC6CB

10 November 25

Renaissance and Enlightenment

The battle of sexes in modern literature. Writing about matrimony. Writing about women. The humanistic discourse. The invention of love and love marriage in Enlightenment literature.

Isabel Morant Deusa. Former Full-Time Professor, Universitat de València

INSCRIPTION: https://links.uv.es/0NNbddd

15 December 25

Political cracks and social transformations and modernisation

What equality are we talking about when we say equality? The French Revolution

What freedom are we talking about when we say freedom? The making of the liberal social order.

Dolores Sánchez Durá. Full-Time Professor in History for Secondary Education

INSCRIPTION: https://links.uv.es/4eHbBFE

19 January 26

Women creativity

Female agenda in art and science. 19th and 20th centuries.

Rosa Ríos Lloret. Full-Time Professor in History for Secondary Education

INSCRIPTION: https://links.uv.es/hv3bJ6P

16 February 26

Democracies and dictatorships

Women as political objects and subjects. 20th century

Àngels García Bonafé. Full-Time Professor in History for Secondary Education, Master's Degree in Secondary Education History Didactics professor

INSCRIPTION: https://links.uv.es/1T9SQ48

30 March 26

A new political subject

The Feminisms

Dolores Sánchez Durá. Full-Time Professor in History for Secondary Education

Carla Bezanilla-Rebollo. Researcher at Université Paris 8 (Vincennes Saint-Denis)

INSCRIPTION: https://links.uv.es/MNLhuP3

A CERTIFICATE WILL ONLY BE ISSUED WITH ATTENDANCE AT ALL SESSIONS

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