Rural women and feminist discourses of the 1920's

This paper analyses the figure of the rural women in the feminist's discourses -conservative and socialist- of the early 1900s to the late 1930s, specifically during Primo de Rivera's dictatorship. In this context of creation of gender and national identities, a number of representations are produced to hierarchize the rural woman as the counter-model in the margins of the "modern woman". The marginalization of these women in the feminist discourse is reinforced by similarities with other subaltern and Orientalized subjects such as the women in colonized Morocco.