Much has been said and written about Cayetana de Alba, “Grandee of Spain” and a woman who took an important part in some of the historical moments of her lifetime. The images the media conveyed of her – that of a frivolous woman - is, yet, contradicted by her autobiography. The aim of this paper is, therefore, to investigate Cayetana’s discursive gendered positions from an interdisciplinary standpoint: based on...
A importância histórica de Cayetana, Duquesa de Alba, figura ímpar no panorama espanhol e internacional, leva-nos a propor a presente comunicação, cujo objetivo primordial é o de analisar a sua escrita autobiográfica, assente, como ela própria o confessa, en la tarea de reavivar mi memória. Num percurso que começa na sua infância e que termina com o reconhecimento de uma vida vivida intensamente, comprovando qu...
Departing from the so long discussed crisis in the Humanities, we will argue that when research is anchored on critical analysis which ignores other fields of work and of expertise, living within dogmas and canons, divorced from an interdisciplinary dialogue, we witness an isolation of Humanities. We, researchers of these new liquid and light times (Bauman 2000), have to be able to give a future to the Humaniti...