Constructing Spanish Womanhood

Female Identity in Modern Spain

Victoria Loree Enders, Pamela Beth Radcliff, Victoria Loree Enders, Pamela Beth Radcliff

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 1998
• Print ISBN: 9780791440308, 9780791440292
• eBook ISBN: 9781438402062
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

The first anthology in English on modern Spanish women's history and identity formation.

This book, the first anthology in English, links the concerns of Spanish women's history to those of women's history elsewhere in Europe and throughout the world. The contributors, representing the best of the new historical scholarship, expand our knowledge of the general field of Spanish history and contribute to the reconfiguring of European history through the inclusion of the Spanish experience. They tie empirical inquiries into the history of women in Spain to current feminist theoretical concerns, including debates about identity and agency, and they show how "contesting identities" also lead to "contesting categories" and into broad debates about cultural particularism.

Table of contents

• Constructing Spanish Womanhood
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Foreword
• Editor's Preface
• General Introduction: Contesting Identifies/Contesting Categories
• Part I: Sociocultural Models: Prescribing Female Identity in Spain
• Introduction
• 1. Un/Contested Identifies: Motherhood, Sex Reform and the Modernization of Gender Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Spain
• 2. Shaping True Catholic Womanhood: Francoist Educational Discourse on Women
• 3. "Cortes and Marina": Gender and the Reconquest of America Under the Franco Regime
• 4. Masculinity Versus Femininity: The Sanfermines: 1939-1978
• Part II: Work Identities
• Introduction
• 5. Life and Work in the Tobacco Factories: Female Industrial Workers in the Early Twentieth Century
• 6. Representations of Women Workers: Tobacco Strikers in the 1890s
• 7. Women on the Land: Household and Work in the Southern Countryside, 1875-1939
• 8. Enlacing Women's Stories: Composing Womanhood in a Coastal Galician Village
• Part III: Political Identities
• Introduction
• 9. Liberty, Honor, Order: Gender and Political Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Spain
• 10. Spanish Women in the Resistance to Napoleon, 1808-1814
• 11. Redressing the Balance: Gendered Acts of Justice around the Mining Community of Río Tinto in 1913
• 12. Women's Politics: Consumer Riots in Twentieth-Century Spain
• 13. "Into the Clear Air of the Plaza": Spanish Women Achieve the Vote in 1931
• 14. Women and Men at the Ballot Box: Voting in Spain's Two Democracies
• 15. Problematic Portraits: The Ambiguous Historical Role of the Sección Femenina of the Falange Victoria Lorée Enders
• General Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index