Opendata, web and dolomites
  1. home
  2. trasparenza
  3. open h2020
  4. sweet

SWEET SIGNED

The sweetest gender: feminine subjectivities and the gendering of sweets in Barcelona (1650-1800)

Total Cost €

0

EC-Contrib. €

0

Partnership

0

Views

0

 SWEET project word cloud

Explore the words cloud of the SWEET project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "SWEET" about.

popularization    sources    consumption    food    assumptions    incorporation    investigates    central    away    culinary    city    circles    civilizing    thinking    changing    day    examines    meanings    tooth    dominated    ways    medical    confectioners    female    private    examine    substantial    modern    material    economic    eating    move    inherent    mediterranean    underexplored    explores    emerged    agents    guild    textual    debates    connection    trade    women    historiography    sweets    diffusion    beliefs    nature    original    public    commodity    held    taste    courtly    agency    secondly    underrepresented    atlantic    subjectivities    1800    cultural    heritage    era    globalization    contexts    looks    actors    enlightenment    intellectual    1650    global    firstly    colonial    visual    barcelona    patterns    period    sugar    men    feminization    feminine    habits    sweet    urban    narratives    refrescos    sociability    mass    scholarly    played    historiographical    attitudes    spanish    reading    tastes    shaping    history    social    spheres    preserved    manufacture   

Project "SWEET" data sheet

The following table provides information about the project.

Coordinator		 THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARSOF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 

Organization address
address: TRINITY LANE THE OLD SCHOOLS
city: CAMBRIDGE
postcode: CB2 1TN
website: www.cam.ac.uk

contact info
title: n.a.
name: n.a.
surname: n.a.
function: n.a.
email: n.a.
telephone: n.a.
fax: n.a.
 Coordinator Country United Kingdom [UK]
 Total cost 212˙933 €
 EC max contribution 212˙933 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
 Code Call H2020-MSCA-IF-2019
 Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-EF-ST
 Starting year 2020
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2020-05-01   to  2022-04-30

 Partnership

Take a look of project's partnership.

# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARSOF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE UK (CAMBRIDGE) coordinator 212˙933.00

Map

 Project objective

Held assumptions about an inherent female sweet tooth are long-standing, shaping beliefs, attitudes and eating habits from the early modern era to the present day. This research project investigates the process of feminization of sweet taste as well as feminine subjectivities in the making and eating sweets in Barcelona between 1650 and 1800, a crucial period of globalization and popularization of sugar consumption. By addressing the connection between sweets and female nature, this study aims to examine how cultural meanings of sweet food emerged and evolved in the period when sugar was becoming a mass-consumption commodity in Europe. Firstly, this study explores how the changing culinary tastes and the diffusion of new medical knowledge affected the ways of thinking about ‘sweet food’ as well as the social and economic aspects of the sugar trade. Secondly, it examines the agency of women in the manufacture of sweets in private and public spheres, challenging the guild of confectioners in the city. Finally, it looks at refrescos as specific patterns of consumption of sweets and sociability in which women played a crucial role as civilizing agents in the Spanish Enlightenment. This study is based on a large set of underexplored textual, visual and material sources, making use of the rich cultural heritage preserved in Barcelona. By examining the social, intellectual and economic agency of women, this research seeks to move beyond historiographical narratives dominated by men as central actors in the global history of sugar. This research will change the main focus of the recent scholarly away from the courtly circles and Atlantic colonial trade to a Mediterranean and non-courtly urban contexts, which is underrepresented in the field of the substantial historiography on sugar. Overall, it will provide an original reading of the Spanish Enlightenment and further their incorporation into the current debates on the Global Enlightenment.

Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "SWEET" project.

For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.

Send me an  email (fabio@fabiodisconzi.com) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.

Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.

The information about "SWEET" are provided by the European Opendata Portal: CORDIS opendata.

More projects from the same programme (H2020-EU.1.3.2.)

SSHelectPhagy (2019)

Regulation of Selective autophagy by sulfide through persulfidation of protein targets.

Read More  

PreSpeech (2018)

Predicting speech: what and when does the brain predict during language comprehension?

Read More  

GrowthDevStability (2020)

Characterization of the developmental mechanisms ensuring a robust symmetrical growth in the bilateral model organism Drosophila melanogaster

Read More