Educadas para el hogar

Abstract

In this study we attempt to analyze the educational model that was imposed upon women by the Franco regime in Spain after the military uprising and the civil war (1936-1939). The military leadership installed itself as a new political and social order, defining the destinies of both men and women, segregating roles and assigning stereotypical behaviors to each sex. The Church and the Falange created a female model that lasted throughout the years of the dictatorship. They reinstituted traditional values in Spanish society and projected the beliefs of national-Catholicism on education, returning to the old ideal of the womanhood that limited women to the domestic sphere, strengthening her role as wife and mother. This ideology was propagated in all educational centers through specific subjects related to home economics that Female Sector of the Falange controlled. The ideological background of domestic work and the ideals of womanhood were based on the values of the patriarchal society that marginalized women in the social world and confined them to private life.