La española cuando besa

Synopsis of La española cuando besa

«La española cuando besa» is the historical essay by Luis Otero, published by Plaza & Janés in hardcover (240 pages, in Spanish).

The work examines how Francoism turned a woman being free and thinking into sin, vice and crime. Drawing on catechisms, school notebooks and other documents of the era, it shows female education, the ideal of home and daily life under the dictatorship. Includes black-and-white illustrations and color plates.

First edition, published in Barcelona in 1999; the volume includes a bibliography.

For readers interested in the social history of Spain, Francoism and the evolution of women's role.