ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how Carmen de Burgos includes the practical manuals as an integral part of her larger platform to seek feminist reforms. She seeks to dignify the domestic role as she establishes a delicate balance that keeps her arguments within the conventional genre of early twentieth-century feminine literature, from which she earned her living, while testing the limits of this same genre in order to promote the feminist reforms she deemed necessary. Her domestic manuals, cookbooks and multitude of newspaper articles must be considered alongside her fictional texts and essays in order to fully appreciate the feminist notion of reform that she sought in order to modernize Spain. She believed that her Spanish women peers could be both feminists and feminine and sought to educate them so that they not only believed it, but lived it on a daily basis.
