Medina (magazine)

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Medina
CategoriesWomen's magazine
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherServicio de Prensa y Propaganda
Year founded1941
First issue20 March 1941
Final issue30 December 1945
CompanySección Femenina
CountrySpain
Based inMadrid
LanguageSpanish
ISSN1887-7354
OCLC436636100

Medina was a Spanish language weekly women's magazine which was in circulation in the period 1941–1945 in Madrid, Spain. It was one of the publications of Sección Femenina, the women's branch of the Falange political party, which made public the messages of the institution during the much radical era of the Francoist regime.[1] Its subtitle was Seminario de la SF.[2]

History and profile[]

Medina was established in 1941 and was one of the publications of the Sección Femenina targeting women.[3][4] The first issue of the magazine appeared on 20 March 1941.[5] The magazine was published by Servicio de Prensa y Propaganda, a publishing company of Sección Femenina, in Madrid on a weekly basis.[3][5][6]

Medina provided a model of fascist women which advocated loyalty and submission.[4] At the same time it promoted progressive ideas for women which contradicted with the Catholic ideas.[1] For instance, the magazine overtly encouraged the education for girls in 1942.[1] However, it also suggested that the goal was to better train them for their future roles as mothers and supportive wives.[1] Medina continuously emphasized the importance of housework for both Spanish economy and policies.[1] One of the contributors was Constancia de la Mora.[7] The magazine ceased publication in 1945, and the last issue was published on 30 December that year.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e Julia Hudson-Richards (Summer 2015). ""Women Want to Work": Shifting Ideologies of Women's Work in Franco's Spain, 1939–1962". Journal of Women's History. 27 (2): 90–91. doi:10.1353/jowh.2015.0018. S2CID 142966667.
  2. ^ Inbal Ofer (October 2005). "Historical Models, Contemporary Identities: The Sección Femenina of the Spanish Falange and its Redefinition of the Term 'Femininity'". Journal of Contemporary History. 40 (4): 666. doi:10.1177/0022009405056123. JSTOR 30036353.
  3. ^ a b Kathryn L. Mahaney (2018). Feminism Under and After Franco: Success and Failure in the Democratic Transition (PhD thesis). City University of New York. p. 99.
  4. ^ a b Alfonso Pinilla García (2006). "La mujer en la posguerra franquista a través de la Revista Medina (1940-1945)". ARENAL (in Spanish). 13 (1): 156. doi:10.30827/arenal.v13i1.2995.
  5. ^ a b c "Title: Medina" (in Spanish). Hemeroteca Digital. Archived from the original on 13 November 2021. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  6. ^ Megan Louise Briggs Magnant (Spring 2019). The Prohibited Backward Glance: Resisting Francoist Propaganda in Novels of Female Development (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley. p. 6. Archived from the original on 21 January 2021.
  7. ^ Kathleen Vernon (2021). "Women, Fashion, and the Spanish Civil War: From the Fashion Parade to the Victory Parade". In Francisco Fernández de Alba; Marcela T. Garcés (eds.). Fashioning Spain: From Mantillas to Rosalía. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-350-16927-2.
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