Active from 1995 to the present. Its first responsible researcher has been the Professor of Modern History of the UCA, Mª José de la Pascua Sánchez, until January 2010 and continuing as responsible from that date to the present the Professor of Contemporary History, Gloria Espigado Tocino.
It has 14 researchers (four are teachers at the UCA), of which 11 doctoral students and three doctoral students.
Our research interest is focused on women's history studies and our ethical commitment is to contribute to the expansion of historical knowledge by incorporating the experience of women for a full understanding of the past.
The web page of the Group where its past and present activities are carried out (participation in projects, publications and organization of congresses, seminars and courses) can be consulted at the following address: https://generoehistoria.wordpress.com/
The Group has organized International Congresses such as the V Colloquium of the Spanish Association of Historical Research on Women (AEIHM) (Cádiz, 1997), Congress, Frasquita Larrera and Aherán: European and Spanish Women between Enlightenment and Romanticism (Cádiz, 2000), Multidisciplinary Congress Women and Desire. Representations and Practices of Life (Cádiz, 2003) and the XVII National Colloquium of the Spanish Society for the History of Education (SEDHE) (Cádiz, 2013). Also the International Seminar. Feminities represented and alternative subjectivities: women between modernity and contemporaneity (Cádiz, 2016).
She has participated in numerous consecutive R+D+I projects, with collaborations with female researchers from other Spanish, European and American universities.
Currently the Group supports and directs the R+D+I Project of the Knowledge Generation programme, financed by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities: Coordinated "Gender, Culture and Subjectivity: beyond the policies of Knowledge (XV-XX centuries)" GEPOCO (2019-2022).PGC2018-097445-B-C21 whose reference page of activities is: https://generoculturaysubjetividad.wordpress.com/
Specifically within the present R+D+I project, the line of research that the Group intends to develop is related to the study of "Spaces of knowledge, culture and female agency in the Modern and Contemporary World (XV-XX centuries)".
It is proposed to investigate the spaces that facilitated the processes of immersion carried out by women in the field of culture and that sought their access to knowledge throughout the Modern and Contemporary ages. Understood in all their variety, versatility and historical evolution, to constitute bridges of access to knowledge, the basis of a feminine agency essential for the self-awareness of their position as subjects in the world.
Our approach to this focus of attention is inscribed within an interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological vision that adds up from the contribution of different disciplines (History, Literature, Arts, Sociology, Anthropology), establishing a dialogue between different approaches and ways of dealing with the crossroads between culture and the construction of identities. The space of creation, education, training, in each context, becomes the physical and/or symbolic place where the body, the mind, the experience, the language, the beliefs, the reason, the emotion, offer the possibility of individuation for the women who inhabited them and gave them breath.
The broad chronological framework (XV-XX centuries) is intended to serve to trace and analyse the dynamics of change produced in the configuration of these generated spaces of knowledge, attending to a Hispanic geographical framework that also includes cultural flows with Hispanic America and, likewise, in comparative relation with the countries of the European environment.
Women's History and gender realtions in Modern and Contemporary Andalusia.
Social and Cultural Women's History and gender relations in the Modern and Contemporary World
The Group works and applies the different methodologies and techniques related to historical research. It works with archival, bibliographic and newspaper sources existing in the various national archives such as the National Historical Archive and the National Library, the Municipal Newspaper Library of Madrid, the National Historical Archive (Noble Section), the General Archive of Simancas, the General Archive of the Administration. Also with the funds deposited in the different local and provincial archives and libraries.
Archives and libraries of other countries such as the National Library of France, National Archives of Paris, British Library of London, various archives of Portugal, Italy and Chile.
It also works on the techniques of Oral History, based on the realization and analysis of interviews.
He works on methodologies related to the interpretation of discourses and images.
The group mainly incorporates the methodologies of gender studies and socio-cultural history. The Group is attentive to and incorporates new approaches to the historical discipline such as the new biography, the history of emotions and political cultures.