Nothing Less Than a Woman: Gendering Modern Spain

AHA Session 272
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 2
Saturday, January 7, 2017: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Room 502 (Colorado Convention Center, Meeting Room Level)
Chair:
Sandie E. Holguin, University of Oklahoma
Papers:
Federica Montseny Mané, the New Woman, and Gender: A Contribution to the History of Spanish Anarchism
Andrew H. Lee, New York University
Spanish Spinsterhood in Comparative Context: Single in Franco’s Spain
Julia Hudson-Richards, Penn State University, Altoona
Absent Mothers in Spansh Film: Gender Expectations and the Franco Regime, 1939–75
Jessica Davidson, James Madison University
Female Sentinels of Occident: The Women’s Section of the Spanish Falange and the Struggle for Women’s Rights in the Postwar West
Kathryn L. Mahaney, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Comment:
Sandie E. Holguin, University of Oklahoma

Session Abstract

This session examines the role of gender and ideas of womanhood in Civil War-era and Francoist Spain (1936-1975). The sessions examine the anarchist writings and ideas of the "New Woman' in the era of the Civil War, spinsterhood in Franco's Spain, gender issues in film during the Francoist era and the rol eof the Spanish fascist movement, the Falange, in articulating ideas of women's role in politics and society in the 1960s and 1970s.
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