Gender, Symbolic Violence and Mass Media: Sweet Chronicles and Female Masculinity at Graphic Press During the Second Republic
Abstract
Basing on the study Mechanical Amazons (Sentamans, 2010), that defines a framework of analytical recovery of the male image of Spanish women marked by the sport practice in the graphic press of the Second Republic, this research aims to analyze a kind of symbolic violence. By establishing arguments and references, and through a set of case studies, the paper will identify several issues. On one hand the degree of media release and the visibility of its female masculinity, and the consequent threat to the national sex-gender system. And secondly, how it was muted and redirected towards a more docile and harmless femininity through the symbolic violence exerted by sports journalists, all often men, in what we call “sweet chronicles”.
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