RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Nationalising Women’s Bodies: Discourse and Politics of Prostitution in Ireland and Spain (1939-1975)
T2 Nacionalizar los cuerpos de las mujeres: el discurso y la política de la prostitución en Irlanda y España (1939-1975)
A1 Ryan, Paul
A1 Danet Danet, Alina
K1 prostitution
K1 Ireland
K1 Spain
K1 nationalism
K1 women’s bodies
K1 catholicism
AB This article explores how women’s sexuality has played a central role in building andreproducing the collective identity of the nation in two countries, Ireland and Spain. Itargues how a nationalisation of women’s bodies created a symbolic and idealised versionof womanhood, reinforced by a complex infrastructure of criminal code, places ofrehabilitation and a system of surveillance operating through government, medical andreligious institutions. We explore these processes through an analysis of the discoursesgoverning prostitution in leading newspapers between 1939 and 1975, corresponding tothe public nation-building projects to Catholic nationalism through the idealisation offamily, motherhood and domestic life. Three key discourses from the newspaper coveragehave been identified around prostitution: protecting the national body, the exile of womenin prostitution and ordinary women as a threat, to trace the process of renewed nationbuilding that occurred in both countries from the 1940s onwards.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8424
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/32237
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/32237
LA en
DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 18-may-2024