Mónica García
Mónica García Fernández holds a degree in History from the University of Oviedo (2011) and a PhD with European mention from the same University (2019), thanks to a pre-doctoral contract from the Severo Ochoa program of the Principado de Asturias. She has also completed the Erasmus Mundus Master in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oviedo and the University of Hull (2012-13). Since 2024 she has been a researcher in the Ramón y Cajal program in the Department of Contemporary History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Previously, she was a beneficiary of the call for recruitment for the specialization of doctoral research staff at the UPV/EHU (2020-2022) and Margarita Salas postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the History of Ibero-America (CHIA) of the University of Leeds (2022-2023). In addition, she was a visiting scholar at Rutgers. The State University of New Jersey, the University of Glasgow and the University of Lisbon. In 2023 she was awarded the Beinecke Library Fellowship at Yale University.
Her research has been focused on the norms and experiences of sexuality and love in Francoism, with an interest also in the intersection between religious and sexual change in the 1960s and 1970s. She addressed these issues in her doctoral thesis, awarded by the Spanish Association for Research in Women’s History (AEIHM) and the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS). Her dissertation was published in 2022 by Comares under the title Dos en una sola carne izenburuarekin. Matrimonio, amor y sexualidad en la España franquista (1939-1975). In addition, her work awarded the Contemporary European History Prize 2020 and the International Society for Cultural History Prize Competition, 2016.
Publications:
- Dos en una sola carne. Matrimonio, amor y sexualidad en la España franquista (1939-1975) (Granada: Comares, 2022).
- “La insatisfacción sexual femenina, del franquismo a la Transición. Discursos, subjetividades y emociones”, Arenal1 (2023): 277-308. https://doi.org/10.30827/arenal.v30i1.16218
- “Representations of Motherhood in Late Francoist Spain: From Catholic Discourses to Early Feminist Critiques”, Feminismo/s 41 (2023): 131-57. https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2023.41.06
- “A Healthy Sex Life. Love, Marriage, and Sexual Knowledge in Franco’s Spain”, Social History of Medicine4 (2022): 1334-55. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkab132
- “From National Catholicism to Romantic Love. The Politics of Love and Divorce in Franco’s Spain”, Contemporary European History1 (2022): 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777321000515
- “La frígida y el donjuán. Sexualidad, género y nación en el cine y la cultura popular del tardofranquismo”, Bulletin of Spanish Studies3 (2021): 411-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2021.1908723
- “Sexualidad y religión en el tardofranquismo. La recepción de la Humanae vitae en España y la crisis de autoridad en la Iglesia”, Hispania Nova 19 (2021): 255-90. https://doi.org/10.20318/hn.2021.5882
- “De la castidad a la rebeldía. La sexualidad femenina en la prensa del segundo franquismo (1960-1975)”, Civilisations et sociétés 20.2 (2021): 63-96.
- “Entre la norma y el deseo. Amor, género y sexualidad en la España de los años cincuenta”, en Esta es la España de Franco. Los años cincuenta del franquismo (1950-1959), eds. Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco y Claudio Hernández Burgos (Zaragoza: PUZ, 2020), 227-48.
- “Gender Metaphors and Representations of the Biological Body: An Analysis of Popular Medical Literature Published in Franco’s Spain”, Cultural History2 (2017): 209-26. https://doi.org/10.3366/cult.2017.0150
- “Sexualidad y armonía conyugal en la España franquista. Representaciones de género en manuales sexuales y conyugales publicados entre 1946 y 1968”, Ayer1 (2017): 215-38. https://doi.org/10.55509/ayer/105-2017-09.
PROFILES
https://uam.academia.edu/garciafmonica
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5962-4606
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