Por una historia de la sociabilidad femenina: algunas reflexiones

Danièle Bussy Genevois

doi:10.3989/hispania.2003.v63.i214.226

Abstract

To apply the instruments of the analysis of sociability to Spanish women does not mean merely the application of a comfortable category to a colourful object. Even extending them to the modern history of Spain, these instruments allow nuance in the category of so-called «informality», by analysing the ways in which the history of gender blurs the two forms of sociability; a precise, historicised and critical study is called for. If in the 1970s and 1980s feminist groups investigated their past, they have had a notable aftermath: in recent years, studies have proliferated on the Falange, on the workers movement, and on the suffragists, both on the national and (with the development of research in the Autonomous Communities) the regional level. And if one can trace a chronology of democratic associations from the nineteenth-century liberals to recent times, the historiography will also be able to establish key themes and statistical studies.

Highlights

To apply the instruments of the analysis of sociability to Spanish women does not mean merely the application of a comfortable category to a colourful object
If in the 1970s and 1980s feminist groups investigated their past, they have had a notable aftermath: in recent years, studies have proliferated on the Falange, on the workers movement, and on the suffragists, both on the national and the regional level
If one can trace a chronology of democratic associations from the nineteenth-century liberals to recent times, the historiography will be able to establish key themes and statistical studies

Summary

DANIELE BUSSY GENEVOIS

Cuando las sociabilidades en España son, como lo tiende a demostrar este volumen, objeto de producciones científicas importantes y balances repetidos, cabe notar que, hasta una fecha reciente, el instrumento de análisis proporcionado por las obras de Maurice Agulhon no llegó a aplicarse a la «historia de las mujeres». Reside por lo tanto el problema no tanto en saber si se hacían estudios de sociabilidad sin saberlo, o si muchos estudios recientes aprovechan el término sin hacer funcionar la categoría llegando a aplicarse a «los más variopintos objetos»6, como lo analizan ciertos observadores, sino intentar examinar la posible aportación de las tesis de Maurice Agulhon al conocimiento de los colectivos femeninos.

MOVIMIENTOS FEMINISTAS E INTERÉS POR LA SOCIABILIDAD

ASPECTOS DE LA SOCIABILIDAD FORMAL