Marta V. Vicente

Contact Information Phone: (785) 864-2235 Office: 213G Bailey Email: mvicente@ku.edu

Assoc. Prof, Hist. and Women's Stud. (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1998; B.A. Barcelona, 1988). Research focus on women's history in 18th-century Spain. My teaching areas are European women's history from 1600s to the present, feminist theory and women and work.

My doctoral dissertation was about artisan families and early industrialization in eighteenth-century Barcelona. My thesis showed that the first factories were able to grow thanks to the work and forms of organization of work of artisan families. Two articles have grown out of this effort so far: "Artisans and Work in a Barcelona Cotton Factory (1770-1816)," International Review of Social History 45 (2000): 1-23; and "Images and Realities of Work: Women and Guilds in Early Modern Barcelona," in Alain Saint-Saëns and Magdalena Sánchez, eds., Spanish Women in the Golden Age: Images and Realities (Greenwood 1996), 127-139. I am currently writing a book titled "Clothing the Spanish Empire: Families and the Calico Trade in the Atlantic World, 1700-1815," and have co-edited, Women, Texts, and Authority in the Early Modern Spanish World (Ashgate: 2003). Other research projects include the history of the relation between notions of women and work in the Spanish Enlightenment and the actual experience of ordinary women. In this project, I will analyze a variety of archival documentation from court suits to business letters that reveal how women constructed their public identity and whether such construction had any relation to the political, intellectual and cultural changes that Spanish society witnessed at the end of the eighteenth century.

I have taught the following courses on women's history: "History of Women and the Family in Europe: From 1600 to the Present"; "From Spinners to Executives: Women's History in Europe, From 1600 to Present"; "History of Feminist Theory", "History of Women and Work" and "History of Women and the Body".