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T1 Romance and pseudoscience: female indoctrination in hygiene manuals, 1850s-turn of the century
A1 Rubio Campos, María del Carmen
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
AB From mid nineteenth century onwards the publication of prescriptive literature for and about women increasingly rose in Spain until reaching its peak by the turn of the century: manuals, essays, treatises and textbooks for girls experienced an unprecedented boom. Hygiene manuals in particular intended to convince women of the need to be guided by male doctors and, while prescribing hygienic practices to improve women's health and that of their families, manuals also prescribed social roles such as that of wife and mother. Thus, the female body and the ways to keep it healthy became a way of preserving Spain's status quo and traditional male authority. The most convincing technique to reinforce that authority was the use of a scientific halo conveyed by medical discourse, with which the authors empowered themselves and their works. However, scientific discourse in hygiene manuals was full of fissures: science was curiously mixed with the popular and the romantic, the literary and ancient beliefs about the female body and mind more in accordance with superstition than scientific objectivity.
SN 1578-2174
YR 2009
FD 2009
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/23689
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/23689
LA spa
NO Agora para la educación física y el deporte, 2009, N.11, pags.43-61
DS UVaDOC
RD 19-abr-2024