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Marañón y la identidad sexual: biología, sexualidad y género en la España de la década de 1920

2013; Spanish National Research Council; Volume: 189; Issue: 759 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3989/arbor.2013.759n1004

1988-303X

Ramón Castejón Bolea,

History of Education in Spain

This article examines three works by Gregorio Maranon, published for the first time in 1926 under the epigraph Tres ensayos sobre la vida sexual [Three essays on sexual life] . These essays had a huge impact and they were republished several times. The aim of this paper is to help situate Maranon’s medical and scientific views, as expressed in these essays, in the political, scientific and socio-cultural context of 1920s Spain. Maranon’s theory of sexual differentiation and his defence of women’s maternal mission is discussed at a time when many feminists accepted a sexualised view of the world in which women’s identity was articulated around motherhood. The analysis of these essays is framed in the contemporary historiography on sexuality and women’s history.