Controlling the Sexuality of Valencian Girls in Franco’s Spain during the 1940s and 1950s
Nuq, Amélie
Controlling the Sexuality of Valencian Girls in Franco’s Spain during the 1940s and 1950s - 2015.
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This study of a Valencian reformatory school is a work in social history and gender studies that examines how the sexuality of young girls was perceived and controlled under Franco’s regime during the 1940s and 1950s. The regime’s approach to juvenile deviancy can be characterized in part by its strong emphasis on the moral dimension of feminine misbehavior. “Reforming” these youths meant training them to become wives and mothers, in conformity with the feminine archetype endorsed by Francoism. This strict control over morality, far more significant than political repression, reveals the considerable influence wielded by the Catholic Church in postwar Spain.
Controlling the Sexuality of Valencian Girls in Franco’s Spain during the 1940s and 1950s - 2015.
83
This study of a Valencian reformatory school is a work in social history and gender studies that examines how the sexuality of young girls was perceived and controlled under Franco’s regime during the 1940s and 1950s. The regime’s approach to juvenile deviancy can be characterized in part by its strong emphasis on the moral dimension of feminine misbehavior. “Reforming” these youths meant training them to become wives and mothers, in conformity with the feminine archetype endorsed by Francoism. This strict control over morality, far more significant than political repression, reveals the considerable influence wielded by the Catholic Church in postwar Spain.
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