Crímenes privados a voces. Treinta años de violencia de mujeres en España (1902-1931)

Abstract

The present study explores crimes committed by women during the final years of the Restoration and the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera in Spain. The authors also analyse the space–discourse dichotomy of these actions, committed in the private sphere but quickly extrapolated to the public arena for sensationalist ends. Press cuttings, literary extracts and court rulings provide the sources for this study, which aims to examine in depth this blurred dividing line of dialectic action. Against the precepts defined by the prevailing discourse on the “female sex”, which pigeonholed women into the conceived notion of permanent weakness, beauty and lethargy, the transgression at the heart of the private sphere will be made public, showing that the fabricated idealisations of women had little to do with reality.