El descanso del guerrero

La Transformación De La Masculinidad Excombatiente Franquista (1939-1965)

Bibliographic Data

ID7295347
AuthorsÁngel Alcalde (0000-0003-4048-812X, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, corresponding author)
Year2017
Issue37
Pages177-208
Publication date2017-05-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistoria y Política Ideas Procesos y Movimientos Sociales (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1575-0361 • E-ISSN: 1989-063X
PublisherCentro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales (PUBLISHER • ES)
DOI10.18042/hp.37.07
OpenAlexW2618848597
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited15

The establishment of the Franco regime entailed the consolidation of a set of ultra-conservative, Catholic, and fascist gender roles, as well as masculinity ideals. However, Francoist masculinity has been largely neglected by historians. This article examines the historical evolution of Francoist war veterans as a manly archetype. The article argues that this ideal of masculinity was hegemonic during most part of the dic¬tatorship. By analysing journalistic, literary and filmic sources, and by observing the intimate and familiar dimension of the lives of men who fought and won the Spanish Civil War, the article explains the implications and transformations of such manly ideal, which drew on the driving notion of the “recreation of the warrior”. A mythical conception of the man as a war-experienced individual preserved its hegemony by fus¬ing with other masculinity models, thus becoming a key factor to sustain social and familiar order and gender relations in Spanish society until the mid-1960s

Archetype · Art · Dictatorship · Hegemonic masculinity · Hegemony · Humanities · Ideal (ethics · Literature · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Gender Studies · History of Education in Spain · Law · Spanish Culture and Identity · Spanish History and Politics

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