La «cuestión social» como cuestión de género. Feminidad y trabajo en España (1860-1930)

Abstract

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, in the context of the origins of social reform in Spain (1883-1889), a state of social alarm was generated among the Spanish political class of the restoration on verifying that the participation of working class women in the workplace, both economically and productively, was very intense. The aim of this article is to examine to what extent the ideology of domesticity, created by the bourgeosie and the middle class throughout the 19th Century, is in no way presented as a monolithic representation but in fact questioned by the working class. The stet of social conscience generated by the Spanish reformists explains the enormous political and social efforts invested, throughout the first three decades of the 20th Century, in reorganising gender relations.