​Despite these challenges, all the presentations underscored the importance of reading these silences to uncover the lives of women. To access their emotions, resistances, agency, strategies, knowledge, notions of justice, the ways they interacted with institutions, and how they choose for alternative paths to improve their survival conditions. This event was an opportunity to share our perspectives on the agency of these women, breaking with views that confine them to the domestic space.

However, the interpretation of silences by our participants went far beyond this. It shed light on social dynamics beyond what is recorded in judicial, literary, and press documentation. Community or popular justice was another key point emphasized in the works presented here. It became clear how crucial the social dynamics in towns and cities were and how shared notions of justice among their inhabitants were central to the strategies women developed in conflict situations to achieve better living conditions. These dynamics included networks of sociability among women, which often served as support and protection networks when they faced violence within their own homes.

This brings us to another important point. We learned a great deal about how spaces of domesticity - households and recogimientos (whether as houses or institutions) - were complex locations in the early modern and modern periods. While these spaces embodied discourses of masculinity and femininity centered on the idea of a safe space, the home was often also a site of violence. In practice, these spaces had highly varied roles connected to women's experiences and the ways they developed their knowledge. Moreover, the presentations also taught us about the dynamics between home and urban spaces, demonstrating that, far from a rigid separation between the two, there was actually a deep interconnection.