True Catholic Womanhood

by Aurora G. Morcillo

Women faced conflicting demands under Francisco Franco's program of National Catholicism, finding themselves at the center of the regime's efforts to preserve tradition while promoting modernization. Even as state-sponsored economic development created a modern consumer society, church-influenced laws and institutions dictated female domesticity and upheld feminine ideals of asexuality, self-denial, and limited educational development.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875802567
• ISBN13: 9780875802565
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher