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Addresses the tension between expectations for the traditional woman, whose primary value to the state was reproductive, and those for the modern consumer-housewife ideal that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. This book offers insights to the gender dynamics of authoritarian states.

-- Women faced conflicting demands under Franco's program of National Catholicism. State-sponsored economic development created a modern consumer society, yet women were expected to remain passive and private, conforming to customary ideals of Catholic womanhood. Morcillo explores the contradictions between modernization and traditional gender expectations, adding new insights into the gender dynamics of authoritarian states. True Catholic Womanhood is essential reading for all those interested in modern Spain, Catholicism, European women's history, and authoritarian social politics.

The authors in this anthology explore how we are to rethink political and social narratives of the Spanish Civil War at the turn of the twenty-first century. The questions addressed here are based on a solid intellectual conviction of all the contributors to resist facile arguments both on the Right and the Left, concerning the historical and collective memory of the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship in the milieu of post-transition to democracy. Central to a true democratic historical narrative is the commitment to listening to the other experiences and the willingness to rethink our...