Women And Spanish Fascism
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Author | : Kathleen J.L. Richmond |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1134439369 |
Using forty-five interviews with former members and sympathisers, this book traces the development of the Women's section of the Franco government from its roots in the Spanish fascist party to its role in the dictatorship up to 1959. The study reveals that despite its anti-feminist agenda, the section was, in some areas, a catalyst for women's emancipation in post-Franco Spain.
Author | : Inbal Ofer |
Publisher | : ISBS |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781845193140 |
This book explores the role played by the Female Section of the Spanish Fascist Party (Seccion Femenina de la Falange - SF) in promoting women's political and professional rights within the authoritarian Franco regime in Spain. While acknowledging the organizational and financial ties, as well as the great ideological affinity between the SF and the regime, the book demonstrates how the SF's national leadership promoted an autonomous social and political agenda. Despite the need to constantly maneuver between the cultural and legal dictates of Francoist society, the unique activities and personal experiences of SF members at the heart of political power became a model for an array of policies and reforms that greatly improved the lives of Spanish women. From a unique gender perspective, consideration of the Seccion Femenina de la Falange contributes to the debate on the nature of authoritarian regimes by reflecting on issues of policy formation and implementation, mass mobilization, and the role of coercion alongside the creation of a "culture of consent." In exchange for a long-term commitment to the survival of the regime, both the Catholic Church and the Spanish Falange gained considerable administrative power and a measure of freedom to act on political and social matters. As explained, the promotion of women's legal and political equality, reflected in the struggle to amend the Civil Code and ratify the Law for Political and Professional Rights, is a good example of the way organs within the "regime" made use of their position in order to legitimize non-consensual forms of activism. The SF efforts to increase the number of gainfully employed women and improve their working conditions is an example of the unexpected uses made by agents of the "regime" of the freedom of action accorded them in the public arena. Senoritas in Blue raises questions regarding the nature of women's political activism and capacity for autonomous action within authoritarian regimes, setting out the debate on the nature of feminism and its relation to female activism and the promotion of women as a collective. More specifically, it engages with those works that critically evaluate women's public contribution within Catholic and/or nationalist settings.
Author | : Kathleen Richmond |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415289610 |
Using forty-five interviews with former members and sympathisers, this book traces the development of the Women's section of the France government from its roots in the Spanish fascist party to its role in the dictatorship up to 1959. The study reveals that despite its anti feminist agenda, the section was, in some areas, a catalyst for women's emancipation in post-France Spain.
Author | : Mary Nash |
Publisher | : Arden Press Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Espagne - Histoire - 1936-1939 (Guerre civile) - Femmes |
ISBN | : 9780912869162 |
DEFYING MALE CIVILIZATION examines women's role and experiences in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). It addresses the significant contributions made by anonymous women at the homefront as well as the heroic accomplishments of female political leaders and women who fought at the warfronts.
Author | : Angela Jackson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134471068 |
Through oral and written narratives, this book examines the interaction between women and the war in Spain, their motivation, the distinctive form of their involvment and the effect of the war on their individual lives. These themes are related to wider issues, such as the nature of memory and the role of women within the public sphere. The extent to which women engaged with this cause surpasses by far other instances of female mobilization in peace-time Britain. Such a phenomenon therefore can offer lessons to those who would wish to encourage a greater degree of interest amongst women in political activities today.
Author | : Aurora G. Morcillo |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0838757537 |
This book will be essential for scholars and students interested in Ibero-American cultural studies, gender, religion, and totalitarian politics. --Book Jacket.
Author | : Maryellen Bieder |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134777167 |
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) pitted conservative forces including the army, the Church, the Falange (fascist party), landowners, and industrial capitalists against the Republic, installed in 1931 and supported by intellectuals, the petite bourgeoisie, many campesinos (farm laborers), and the urban proletariat. Provoking heated passions on both sides, the Civil War soon became an international phenomenon that inspired a number of literary works reflecting the impact of the war on foreign and national writers. While the literature of the period has been the subject of scholarship, women's literary production has not been studied as a body of work in the same way that literature by men has been, and its unique features have not been examined. Addressing this lacuna in literary studies, this volume provides fresh perspectives on well-known women writers, as well as less studied ones, whose works take the Spanish Civil War as a theme. The authors represented in this collection reflect a wide range of political positions. Writers such as Maria Zambrano, Mercè Rodoreda, and Josefina Aldecoa were clearly aligned with the Republic, whereas others, including Mercedes Salisachs and Liberata Masoliver, sympathized with the Nationalists. Most, however, are situated in a more ambiguous political space, although the ethics and character portraits that emerge in their works might suggest Republican sympathies. Taken together, the essays are an important contribution to scholarship on literature inspired by this pivotal point in Spanish history.
Author | : Pilar Godayol |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2018-11-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1527522601 |
This collection of essays highlights cultural features and processes which characterized translation practice under the dictatorships of Benito Mussolini (1922-1940) and Francisco Franco (1939-1975). In spite of the different timeline, some similarities and parallelisms may be drawn between the power of the Fascist and the Francoist censorships exerted on the Italian and Spanish publishing and translation policies. Entrusted to European specialists, this collection of articles brings to the fore the “microhistory” that exists behind every publishing proposal, whether collective or individual, to translate a foreign woman writer during those two totalitarian political periods. The nine chapters presented here are not a global study of the history of translation in those black times in contemporary culture, but rather a collection of varied cases, small stories of publishers, collections, translations and translators that, despite many disappointments but with the occasional success, managed to undermine the ideological and literary currents of the dictatorships of Mussolini and Franco.
Author | : Martha A. Ackelsberg |
Publisher | : AK Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781902593968 |
With fists upraised, Mujeres Libres struggled for their own emancipation and the freedom of all.
Author | : Wayne H. Bowen |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826265154 |
The story of Spain during World War II has largely been viewed as the story of dictator Francisco Franco's foreign diplomacy in the aftermath of civil war. Wayne H. Bowen now goes behind the scenes of fascism to reveal less-studied dimensions of Spanish history. By examining the conflicts within the Franco regime and the daily lives of Spaniards, he has written the first book-length assessment of the regime's formative years and the struggle of its citizens to survive. Bowen argues that the emphasis of previous scholars on Spain's foreign affairs is misplaced-that even the most pro-Axis elements of Franco's regime were more concerned with domestic politics, the potential for civil unrest, and poverty than with events in Europe. Synthesizing a wide range of Spanish-language scholarship and recently declassified government documents, Bowen reveals how Franco's government stumbled in the face of world war, inexperienced leaders, contradictory political ideology, and a divided populace. His book tells the dramatic story of a six-year argument among the general, the politicians, and the clerics on nothing less than what should be the nature of the new Spain, touching on issues as diverse as whether the monarchy should be restored and how women should dress. Examining the effects of World War II years on key facets of Spanish life-Catholicism, the economy, women, leisure, culture, opposition to Franco, and domestic politics-Bowen explores a wide range of topics: the grinding poverty following the civil war, exacerbated by poor economic decisions; restrictions on employment for women versus the relative autonomy enjoyed by female members of the Falange; the efforts of the Church to recover from near decimation; and methods of repression practiced by the regime against leftists, separatists, and Freemasons. He also shows that the lives of most Spaniards remained apolitical and centered on work, family, and leisure marked by the popularity of American movies and the resurgence of loyalty to regional sports teams. Unlike other studies that have focused exclusively on Spain's foreign affairs during the Second World War, Bowen's work stresses the importance of the home front not only in keeping Spain out of the war but also in keeping Franco in power. He shows that in spite of internal problems and external distractions, Franco's government managed to achieve its goals of state survival and internal peace. As the only single-volume survey of this era available in English, Spain during World War II is a masterful synthesis that offers a much-needed alternative view of the Franco regime during crucial times as it provides a testament to the Spanish people's will to survive.