morcillo

Dr. Aurora G. Morcillo

Associate Professor, Women's Studies & History
Florida International University

Ph.D. History/Modern Europe/Gender
University of New Mexico, 1995

Vita | Publications | Research | Course Syllabi

Dr Morcillo's current research focuses on sexual politics under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. She is particularly interested in how the concept of culture is bound up with those of modernity and national identity under authoritarian regimes. Her book in progress, "The Seduction of Francoist Spain. The Female Body at the center of Sexual Politics," is about the symbolic relationship between the Spanish body politic and the allegorical female body of the nation. It is also about the metaphorical use of gender imagery in political discourse. With this study she intends to shed light on our understanding of gender relations by utilizing the somatic metaphors present in the Francoist political discourse and the counter imagery produced by the popular media in the 1950s and 1960s. Dr Morcillo's first book True Catholic Womanhood. Gender Ideology in Franco's Spain (Northern Illinois University Press, 2000) focused on formal educational structures, specifically the intersection of higher learning and gender as a means of the Francoist state to shape individual and national identities.

Teaching
She teaches courses in Women's Studies and European history. Her upper division and graduate courses in both fields include the history of women in modern Spain; the gendered history of the body, sexuality, and gender roles in Western culture; nationalism and gender in totalitarian regimes.

Course Syllabi
Historia de España Contemporánea

Books
True Catholic Womanhood:
Gender Ideology in Franco Spain
(Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000)

Chapters in Books
“Uno, Dos,Tres, Cuatro. Women Modern Docile Bodies” in Andrew McFarland and Boria Majumdar eds. Journal Sport in Society, (special issue forthcoming 2007, Routledge)

“Tiempos Modernos. Feminismo Y Lucha Política Durante La II República Y La Guerra Civil” in Pilar Folguera comp. El Feminismo en España (Madrid: Fundación Pablo Iglesias, forthcoming second edition 2007)

Shaping True Catholic Womanhood: Francoist Educational Discourse on Women" in Victoria Enders and Pamela Radcliff eds., Constructing Spanish Womanhood. Female Identity in Modern Spain (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999)