Who Were the Experts?’ The Science of Love vs. Women's Knowledge of Love During the Spanish Dictatorship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12205947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosa Ma Medina-Doménech (Universidad de Granada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177-200 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science as Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-5431 • E-ISSN: 1470-1189 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09505431.2013.809412 |
| OpenAlex | W2052821576 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 12 |
During the most oppressive decades of National-Catholicism imposed by the Franco regime, scientific and medical expertise and knowledge were used to promote a particular form of heterosexual love that supported patriarchal normativity and notions of femininity. This ‘science of love’ represents two dispositifs of feminization that circulated through a range of scientific and medical knowledges (e.g. eugenics, ethology, physiology, neurosciences and psychiatry). It not only supported the internal coherence of science and medicine, but also supported particular forms of knowledge within the cultural context of National-Catholicism. Although the science of love was inspired by particular notions of romantic love, it was also contested by the daily and practical experiences of women. Different women in Franco's Spain deployed marginalized and subaltern knowledges as they orchestrated an emotional knowledge that was more emancipatory and useful for everyday amorous preoccupations and well-being than the one in medical and psychiatric texts. Women's discussions of love represented a key site and source of knowledge, an authentic repository of imaginative ideas that are also useful for the present to challenge patriarchal norms
Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Eugenics · Femininity · Feminization (sociology · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Gender Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History of Emotions Research · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
Exemplary Women
La insatisfacción sexual femenina, del franquismo al feminismo. Discursos, subjetividades y emociones
Resistencias emocionales. Espacios y presencias de lo íntimo en el archivo histórico
From National Catholicism to Romantic Love
Explorando la agencia de las mujeres encarceladas a través de sus experiencias amorosas
Capaciting Cis-Women for Heterosexuality
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0.6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |