La mujer in-corporada: La educación física de la mujer en la España del siglo XIX, o las paradojas entre el fundamento teórico y la realidad

Authors

  • Catherine Vallejo Concordia University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v42i1.1943

Abstract

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Spain lived through a modernization process whose ideas contributed to how women’s education was seen. Based mainly on concepts by Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu, and starting with Josefa Amar y Borbón (1790 ), this article examines some texts by doctors and others published in magazines in the sixties and seventies, to conclude with articles from the 1892  Congreso Pedagógico. The resulting paradox will be evident: although apparently encouraging women to practice physical activities, these authorities’ texts effectively controlled women’s corporal being by “dis-embodying” her in her social reality and leaving her captive in discourse.

Published

2018-04-16

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