Teresa was a monthly women's magazine which was in circulation in the period 1954–1977 in Madrid, Spain. Its subtitle was Revista para todas las mujeres (Spanish: Magazine For All Women).[1] The title of the magazine was a reference to Saint Teresa of Avila.[2] It was one of the official media outlets of Sección Femenina, the women's branch of the Falange political party.
| Categories | Women's magazine |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Servicio de Prensa y Propaganda |
| Founded | 1954 |
| First issue | January 1954 |
| Final issue | 1977 |
| Company | Sección Femenina |
| Country | Spain |
| Based in | Madrid |
| Language | Spanish |
History and profile
editTeresa was first published in January 1954.[2][3] The magazine adopted a conservative political stance, but it was less conservative than Medina and Y: Revista para la mujer nacional sindicalista which had been the official organs of the Sección Femenina in the 1940s.[4] It was published by Servicio de Prensa y Propaganda, a publishing company of Sección Femenina, on a monthly basis.[2]
Target audience of Teresa was young and university-aged women.[5][6] The magazine featured articles dealing with fashion, politics, science and cinema.[1] Its fashion content mostly addressed the comfortables clothes for working women.[5] The magazine presented a model for ideal Spanish women which was significantly different from the earlier models promoted by previous women's magazines of the Sección Femenina.[4] For Teresa ideal women were those with moral, intellectual and elegant qualities.[1] In April 1954 the Spanish psychoanalyst Carolina Zamora published an article on Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalysis approach in relation to religion arguing that the conflict between the Catholic Church and psychoanalysis should be ended and that there was a Catholic psychoanalysis movement.[3]
Until 1975 the price of Teresa was 25 Ptas which was much cheaper than those of other magazines.[7] The magazine folded in 1977.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b c Virginia M. Durón Muniz (2016). Aproximación a la revista Teresa (1954 – 1975) (PhD thesis) (in Spanish). University of Seville.
- ^ a b c Megan Louise Briggs Magnant (Spring 2019). The Prohibited Backward Glance: Resisting Francoist Propaganda in Novels of Female Development (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley. pp. 6–7. Archived from the original on 21 January 2021.
- ^ a b Silvia Lévy Lazcano (2021). "Between modernity and tradition: the formation of a psychoanalytical culture during the Franco dictatorship". Culture & History Digital Journal. 10 (1). doi:10.3989/chdj.2021.008. hdl:10261/343978.
- ^ a b Melissa Dinverno (2004). "Dictating fictions: power, resistance and the construction of identity in Cinco horas con Mario". Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 81 (1): 60, 74. doi:10.1080/145382032000184318. S2CID 191603699.
- ^ a b Julia Hudson-Richards (Summer 2015). ""Women Want to Work": Shifting Ideologies of Women's Work in Franco's Spain, 1939–1962". Journal of Women's History. 27 (2): 91, 98. doi:10.1353/jowh.2015.0018. S2CID 142966667.
- ^ Astrid Kromayer (May 1967). "The "Sección Femenina" of Spain". Hispania. 50 (2): 344. doi:10.2307/337593. JSTOR 337593.
- ^ a b Kathryn L. Mahaney (2018). Feminism Under and After Franco: Success and Failure in the Democratic Transition (PhD thesis). City University of New York. pp. 99–100. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021.