Womanhood and women protagonism in the Catholic political cultures of the Franco's regime

Abstract

Several Catholic political cultures, which presented diverse conceptions of gender, different women functions and diverse participation of Catholic women coexisted in Franco=s dictatorship. Along this period, some voices stimulated a reformulation of the womanhood and a redefinition of the category of equality in the Church. The protagonists of this change left the speech of the difference and the complementarity for equality, and questioned in a radical way traditional models of gender, contributing to the transformation of Catholic political cultures.