Disciplining from the waves. Sección Femenina’s Project & discourse on radio broadcasting during the Spanish postwar

Abstract

The work of the Sección Femenina in radio broadcasting field constitutes a quite appropriated subject to explore the formative system created by the falangistas, by allowing to look into its bureaucratic and administrative machinery, as well as the meaning system around the concept of femininity generated by the organization. Thus, this paper examines the presence of these women in the radio broadcasting, looking both at their interest in this media and their experience as propagandist, and at the discourse they spread taking advantage of their privileged position provided by Radio Nacional de España.