For the love of God and country : nation-building and the (re)gendering of emotions in Francoist Spain
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[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Studies on the history of emotion have shown that the standards of a given society towards basic emotions and the appropriate means of expressing them reflect or encourage certain attitudes or conducts in its people. Since emotions function largely as learned responses, political, social and cultural institutions are able to harness its influence by proposing normative emotions about professed values, standards or ideals, and then establishing official rituals and practices to express and inculcate them. My dissertation explores the (re)gendering of emotions to mobilize popular support for Francoist gender identity roles as part of the regime's National-Catholic ideology. I explore the disparities between the emotional rewards propagandists presented as inherent to the Francoist models of masculinity and femininity and those employed in portraying these gender identities in selected texts and film. I establish that while the Francoist regime harnessed the political and social power of emotions for the legitimation of the male dominance and female subservience which were considered fundamental to the regeneration of the Spanish nation, literary and filmic representations of these gender identities and roles used emotion to highlight the gap between prescribed behaviors and emotions and everyday life practices within the nationalist project.
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