Radio, home companion. Uses and consumption of domestic space and time during the first Francoism (1939-1959)

Abstract

Once the New State was imposed and women incardinated in the domestic sphere, they would become producers and reproducers of the Francoist policies through constant and reiterative mechanisms of indoctrination and interpellation. In this trajectory, the radio, as a cultural device at the service of the dictatorship, contributed, together with the activities of the Feminine Section and Catholic Action, to transmit the model of “perfect housewife”. The present work tries to expose through the analysis of the feminine radio emissions the patterns of consumption of time in the home and to show that the programming, with its contents, hiatus and sequences, was directed to legitimize and strengthen the presence of the women in the domestic spaces.