Social Service «Cartilla» Gender roles Gender and history The Social Service was a sort of female ‘military service’, organized and run by the Women’s Section of the Falange political party. It was compulsory except for married women, widows, nuns and young...
Cut-throat razor with box Gender and life cycle: marriage Family and relationships Gender roles Until well into the 20th century, the cut-throat razor was a grooming item that was used, among other things, to enable men to attend the dances held in the town square...
Televisor Emerson Gender roles Gender identity Gender and history Like other forms of mass media in the second half of the 20th century, television was a tool used by the Franco dictatorship to shape public opinion and the way of life of its citizenry....
Clothes iron Sexual division of labour Gender and social class Gender stereotypes: public / domestic The display cases before us contain basic tools for household chores such as ironing. Until the mid-1950s, irons were made of cast iron and heated on top of the...
Aixada de ganxo (two-prong hoe) Sexual division of labour Gender and social class Gender stereotypes: male hunter / female gatherer In rural environments, work was usually organized in family units of production, in which every member of the family did their bit....
