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Between 1939 and 1975 Francoist ideology broke down the barriers of privacy, forcing norms on women that went go against the evolutionary trend of Western societies during the 20th century. Based on about fifty interviews with Spanish women born in the 1930s and 1950s, the household under Francoist rule appears to represent the domain of confinement for women, in which they are expected to carry out activities considered to be uniquely feminine. Here, young women were educated by women of the older generations and reproduced a model of gender separation and inequality. Young women were thus left in an organized ignorance aimed at restricting their autonomy. In this model of socialisation, women were confined by women within a feminine environment where they were trained, in turn, to found their own gynaeceum. These young women were, however, to mobilise in order to escape the gynaeceum and conquer spaces of liberty.