The Cinderella complex – narrating Spanish women's history, the home and visions of equality: developing new margins

Author: Mohammad, Robina

Source: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 30, Number 2, June 2005 , pp. 248-261(14)

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Abstract:

This paper examines the development of feminism in Spain within the context of political transformations. It focuses on one particular strand of feminist thinking: `equality feminism'. The paper traces the evolution of equality feminism and its institutionalization, supported by the production and dissemination of a feminist history of the Franquista dictatorship (1936–1939). Yet, under scrutiny such narratives maintain a silence on the social, political and geographical diversity of women's experiences prior to, during and beyond the Franquista dictatorship. Drawing on women's oral testimonies (recorded in the city of Málaga, Andalucía) the paper animates the silences of this feminist history in Spain and the limits of state feminist ideology.

Keywords: feminism; state; equality; hegemony; ideology; silences; Málaga

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2005.00164.x

Affiliations: 1: South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore, Email: sasrm@nus.edu.sg

Publication date: 2005-06-01