Beatas sojuzgadas por el clero: la imagen de las mujeres en el discurso anticlerical en la España del primer tercio del siglo XX

Abstract

Cultural history has paid attention to representation, mainly because of its effects on the definition of individuals and collective identities and its consequences on the political arena. This article analyses how anticlerical discourse, diffused by republican and working-class press, represented women in Spain during the first three decades of 20th Century. It also studies which images were used to illustrate that discourse. It shows that the antifeminism coming from the left, and based on anticlericalism, had an important political impact in the Second Republic as it was used to question women�s right to vote in Spain.