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Citizenship and Female Catholic Militancy in 1920s Spain
Author(s) -
Blasco Herranz Inmaculada
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
gender and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-0424
pISSN - 0953-5233
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00496.x
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , historiography , modernity , citizenship , identity (music) , sociology , product (mathematics) , gender studies , epistemology , aesthetics , law , political science , philosophy , linguistics , geometry , mathematics , politics
The aim of this article is to offer a new interpretation of the role of women in the Catholic movement in 1920s Spain. It responds to historical analyses that view this mobilisation as the product of clerical manipulation and that consider its feminist aspects to be flawed. The new interpretation presented here is based on a notion of citizenship understood as both a process and as a form of identity construction, and which was configured historically as a result of the incorporation of modern ideas of women, the nation and religion. As a result, this analysis examines the relationship between Catholicism and modernity in greater complexity than the dichotomous views frequently encountered in Spanish historiography.