Con «A» de obrera: Hacia una «conciencia femenina» en el obrerismo católico español en la segunda mitad del siglo XX

Abstract

This article explores a «feminine consciousness» development inside the Catholic worker’s movement, specifically around the Hermandad Obrera de Acción Católica Femenina (HOACF) memberships in Spain between 1947 and 1969. This analysis departs from Temma Kaplan concept and research class and gender relations between HOACF memberships and the male branch called HOAC, both specialisations from the Acción Católica Española (ACE). The aim is to throw light on the double awareness process experimented by most part of the female memberships, as women and as workers, through their daily experiences. The formative methods that they used and their life experiences improved the assumption of a class ideal in women’s minds. Afterwards and due to the “promoción de la mujer”program and the beginning of the female worker’s «temporary commitment», a «feminine consciousness» would question gender relations and would generate frictions between female and male workers.