Female literature and literary education in the school of the Franco regime: presence, theme and uses

Abstract

During the Franco regime, Spanish education was controlled by censorship, which monitored the contents and educational materials used in schools. Among those materials were the school books and among the contents, the school readings. It is interesting to analyze the selection of school readings to discover the interests of the regime in early childhood education. In this case, we are interested in the selection of literature written by women to see their presence in the school canon, to analyze the subject matter of their texts and to see the intention with which they are used. In this article, we analyze 37 textbooks from the Francoist Spain and perform a quantitative study of the literary texts included to draw conclusions about the presence, theme and uses of female literature in the school.