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PL30876: Mujeres y hombres en la España contemporánea: del siglo XX hasta nuestros días

[Page last updated: 05 August 2021]

Academic Year: 2021/2
Owning Department/School: Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
Credits: 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Honours (FHEQ level 6)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: CW 33%, ES 67%
Assessment Detail:
  • Presentation (CW 16%)
  • Write up (CW 17%)
  • Essay (ES 67%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Aims: This course will provide an overview on Spanish Gender History from 1875 to the present day. The course will cover the legal status of Spanish men and women throughout different political regimes from the Restauración (1875-1931) to democracy, including the Second Republic, the Spanish Civil War and Franco's Regime. It will also focus on the diverse forms of gender identity which were developed on the basis of these legal norms. In addition, it will examine central issues such as the discourses of the exclusion of women from politics since the Restauración; dichotomies of public/private and social/political; struggles for the inclusion of women in politics; implications of equality during the Second Republic; impact of the Civil War on gender relations; effects of the gender backlash on daily life during Franco's Regime; implications of the transition to democracy for gender identities; and equality challenges for the future. We will also discuss a series of texts and other historical sources that provides information on these topics. The final aim is to tackle the question of how gender relations, far from being static, have been constantly renegotiated within the different regimes of Spanish History.

Learning Outcomes:
* Become familiar with the theoretical paradigms of Spanish gender relations historiography
* Demonstrate knowledge about research results in the study of the history of gender relationships in Contemporary Spain
* Improve writing and speaking skills in Spanish
* Develop an analytical and critical approach to gender relations.

Skills: Skills in critical analysis, precision in the use of written and spoken language, exercise of independent judgement, reasoned argument, effective communication in the target language, teamwork and the planning/conduct/reporting of non-quantitative research are developed and assessed in this unit.

Content: The content of the unit will include the following topics:
1. Why is a gender perspective needed for analysing the History of Contemporary Spain? Overview on Spanish feminist historiography
2. The triumph of domesticity: men and women in the Restauración (1875-1931).
3. Challenges to the hegemonic gender system: the Spanish women's movement until 1931.
4. The achievement of legal equality and the struggles for implementing it in daily life during the Second Republic (1931-1936).
5. The impact of the Civil War on gender relationships: two opposite views (1936-1939).
6. Looking back at tradition: housewives and breadwinners in Franco's Regime (1939-1957).
7. Reconquering old prerogatives: transgressions to the ideal of the 'Angel of the Heart' in Franco's society (1958-1975).
8. Re-emergence of the Spanish Women's Movement from 1975 to the present day.
9. Back to equality in the Spanish Constitution of 1978. The emergence of institutional feminism in Spain: el Instituto de la Mujer (1983-present).
10. Building up democracy: challenges for real equality in the Spanish society to date.

Programme availability:

PL30876 is Optional on the following programmes:

Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
  • UHPL-AYB18 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (French and Spanish) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
  • UHPL-AYB23 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (German and Spanish) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
  • UHPL-AYB20 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (Spanish and ab initio Italian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
  • UHPL-AYB17 : BA(Hons) Spanish and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 4)
  • UXXX-AYB06 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (Spanish) with Year Abroad (Year 4)

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2021/22 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2022/23 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2021/22.
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