New publication from UCOPress: “Is Motherhood an Institution?”, a work examining motherhood as a social, cultural and institutional construct

El Vicerrectorado de Igualdad, Inclusión y Compromiso Social y UCOPress Editorial Universidad de Córdoba acaban de publicar la obra ganadora de la convocatoria 2023 de la Colección Simone de Beauvoir. Realizada por Elena Recio Ruiz, lleva por título Is Motherhood an Institution?: The Mother-Daughter Relationship in George Eliot’s Scenes of Clerical Life, Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber. En ella se revisa la relación madre-hija en tres obras literarias para analizar las diversas formas en que se describe la maternidad, analizando la transmisión de los ideales y valores tradicionales del sistema patriarcal de madres a…

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The University of Córdoba Press has published “La maternidad en los textos gnósticos cristianos”

The University of Córdoba Publishing Service, in collaboration with the Provincial Council, has published the book "La maternidad en los textos gnósticos cristianos" with which its author Saray García Muñiz won the XIII Leonor de Guzmán Award, organized by the Chair of Women's Studies of the same name. This work analyzes the consideration of motherhood within Gnostic Christian communities through their sacred texts, not only concerning liturgy and evangelization but also daily life, in order to ascertain its impact and the social implications for women in these groups. Similarly, the book investigates whether, through this exclusively feminine condition, women occupied…

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