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I am an early-career Spanish historian currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds, UK. I have three years of postdoctoral experience, having previously worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of the Basque Country for two years before joining the Centre for the History of Ibero-America (CHIA) at the University of Leeds in February 2022. I received my PhD in 2019 from the University of Oviedo (Spain). My thesis received prizes from the Spanish Association for Women’s History Research (AEIHM) and the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. It was published in November 2022 under the title Dos en una sola carne. Matrimonio, amor y sexualidad en la España franquista (1939-1975) (Granada: Comares, 2022). I have been a visiting scholar at Rutgers University, the University of Glasgow and the University of Lisbon. In addition, I have an international MA in Gender Studies from the University of Hull (UK) and the University of Oviedo (Spain). I specialise in the history of gender, sexuality and emotions in the twentieth century, with a particular focus on Francoist Spain. Between 2019 and 2021, I was the principal investigator of a funded project to explore political violence against women in Spain. The results were published in a book titled Silenciadas pero no olvidadas. Mujeres y represión franquista en Asturias (Gijón: Orpheus Ediciones Clandestinas, 2021). I have a strong publication record, having published in leading journals such as Social History of Medicine, Contemporary European History, Ayer, Cultural History, among others. My work has received the Contemporary European History Prize 2020 and the 2016 International Society for Cultural History Prize Competition.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Mónica García-Fernández

Citation names

  • García-Fernández, Mónica
  • García Fernández, Mónica

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C11F-C797-05C2
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5962-4606
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=D7WlARgAAAAJ
Researcher Id
G-5106-2016
Scopus Author Id
57223179588

Email addresses

  • M.Garcia-Fernandez@leeds.ac.uk (Professional)
  • garciafmonica@gmail.com (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - History

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2019
Concluded
Gender and Diversity (Doctor of Philosophy)
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
"Dos en una sola carne. Matrimonio, amor y sexualidad en el franquismo (1939-1975)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013
Concluded
Erasmus Mundus in Women's and Gender Studies (Master)
University of Hull, United Kingdom

Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
with honours
2011
Concluded
History (Bachelor)
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/02/01 - 2023/12/31 Postdoc (Research) University of Leeds School of Languages Cultures and Societies, United Kingdom
2021/09/01 - 2022/01/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2020/03/02 - 2022/01/31 Postdoc (Research) Universidad del País Vasco - Campus Bizkaia, Spain
2013/10/01 - 2017/09/30 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
2016/09/07 - 2016/12/05 Visiting Researcher (Research) Rutgers University Department of History, United States
2015/09/25 - 2015/12/19 Visiting Researcher (Research) University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
2015/06/01 - 2015/07/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
2014/10/01 - 2014/10/15 Visiting Researcher (Research) Rutgers University Department of History, United States
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/01/01 - 2025/12/31 The experience of modern society in Spain, 19th and 20th centuries
GIC21/61, IT1784-22
Researcher
Gobierno Vasco
Ongoing
2021/09/01 - 2024/08/31 Gender disorder in contemporary Spain. Feminities and Masculinities
PID2020-114602GB-I00
MINECOG20/P16
Researcher
España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ongoing
2023/06/01 - 2023/08/31 Women and War: Writing Practices, Emotions and Representation. Comparative and Transnational Perspectives
N/A
Research Fellow
Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Ongoing
2021/09/01 - 2022/01/31 Sexual and Emotional Cultures in the 1970s
MOV20/65
Visiting researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Universidad del País Vasco - Campus Bizkaia
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2021/12/31 Silenciadas, pero no olvidadas. Mujeres y represión franquista en Asturias
SUMH 4/2019
192-MD-2020 782-248751
Principal investigator
Gobierno del Principado de Asturias

Ministerio de la Presidencia
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2021/12/30 The Experience of Modern Society in Spain, 1870-1990
IT1312-19, GIC18/52
Researcher
Gobierno Vasco
2014/07/24 - 2017/09/30 Grupo Deméter. Maternidad, Género y Familia
SV-17-GRUPUO-DEMETER
SV-16-GRUPUO-DEMETER
SV-15-GRUPUO-DEMETER
Researcher
Universidad de Oviedo
Concluded
2014/01/01 - 2017/09/30 Maternities and families. Continuities, changes and ruptures in history: Between ancient societies and contemporary society
MINECO-13-HAR2013-42371-R
Researcher
Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/02/01 - 2023/12/30 Bodies and affects in transition: Experiences and discourses on love and sexuality, 1960-1982
MU-21-UP2021-030-71667659
Post-doc Fellow
Universidad de Oviedo
Ongoing
2020/03/02 - 2022/01/31 Sexuality, religion and gender in the second Franco regime and the Transition. Discourses and experiences (1965-1982)
ESPDOC 19/74
Post-doc Fellow
Universidad del País Vasco - Campus Bizkaia
Concluded
2013/10/01 - 2017/09/30 Sexuality and the female body in 20th century Spain. Representations in the popular literature of advice for women
BP13041
PhD Student Fellow
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Fundación para el Fomento en Asturias de la Investigación Científica Aplicada y la Tecnología
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. García-Fernández, Mónica. Dos en una sola carne. Matrimonio, amor y sexualidad en la España franquista (1939-1975). Granada, Spain: Comares. 2022.
    Published
  2. Mónica García-Fernández. Silenciadas, pero no olvidadas. Mujeres y represión franquista en Asturias. Gijón, Spain: Orpheus Ediciones Clandestinas. 2021.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. García-Fernández, Mónica; Cabrero Blanco, Claudia. "La lucha de las mujeres en Asturias durante el franquismo". In Historia de las mujeres en Asturias. Spain, 2024.
    In press
  2. García-Fernández, Mónica. "Asturianas de azul. La Sección Femenina de Falange y las mujeres baluarte del franquismo". In Historia de las mujeres en Asturias. Spain, 2024.
    In press
  3. García-Fernández, Mónica. "The Anatomy of Marriage: Hormones, Gender, and the Sexed Body in Franco's Spain". In Physicians in a Transforming Europe (1770s-1950s). United Kingdom: Routledge, 2024.
    Accepted
  4. García-Fernández, Mónica. "Entre la norma y el deseo. Amor, género y sexualidad en la España de los años cincuenta". In Esta es la España de Franco. Los años cincuenta del franquismo (1950-1959), edited by Arco Blanco, Miguel Ángel del; Hernández Burgos, Claudio, 227-248. Zaragoza, Spain: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2020.
    Published
  5. García-Fernández, Mónica. "El asesinato de Conchita Robles. Un caso de violencia contra las mujeres en la España de los años veinte". In Fronteras contemporáneas. Identidades, pueblos, mujeres y poder, 449-466. Barcelona, Spain: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, 2017.
    Published
  6. García-Fernández, Mónica. "«Parir para la patria». El control del embarazo y el parto en las primeras décadas del franquismo (1939-1955)". In Nacimientos bajo control. El parto en las edades moderna y contemporánea, 129-148. Gijón: Trea, 2014.
    Published
Book review
  1. García-Fernández, Mónica. "Begoña Barrera, La Sección Femenina, 1934-1977. Historia de una tutela emocional (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2019). 546 páginas. ISBN: 978-84-9181-706-2". 41, (2021): 541-544.
    Published
  2. García-Fernández, Mónica. "MORCILLO GÓMEZ, Aurora: En cuerpo y alma. Ser mujer en tiempos de Franco. Traducción de Tomás Fernández Aúz y Beatriz Eguibar. Madrid, Siglo XXI, 2015.". 23, 1 (2016): 223-241.
    Published
Journal article
  1. García-Fernández, Mónica. "Representations of motherhood in late francoist Spain: From catholic discourses to early feminist critiques". Feminismo/s 41 (2023): 131-157.
    Published • 10.14198/fem.2023.41.06
  2. García-Fernández, Mónica. "La insatisfacción sexual femenina, del franquismo a la Transición. Discursos, subjetividades y emociones". Arenal 31 1 (2023):
    Open access • In press • 10.30827/arenal.v30i1.16218
  3. García-Fernández, Mónica. "From National Catholicism to Romantic Love: The Politics of Love and Divorce in Franco's Spain". Contemporary European History 31 1 (2022): 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777321000515.
    10.1017/S0960777322000017
  4. García-Fernández, Mónica. "'A Healthy Sex Life': Love, Marriage and Sexual Knowledge in Franco's Spain (1960-75)". Social History of Medicine (2022):
    Published • http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkab132
  5. García-Fernández, Mónica. "La frígida y el donjuán: sexualidad, género y nación en el cine y la cultura popular del tardofranquismo". Bulletin of Spanish Studies 98 3 (2021): 441-436. https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2021.1908723.
    Published • 10.1080/14753820.2021.1908723
  6. García-Fernández, Mónica. "Sexualidad y religión en el tardofranquismo. La recepción de la Humanae Vitae en España y la crisis de autoridad de la iglesia". HISPANIA NOVA. Primera Revista de Historia Contemporánea on-line en castellano. Segunda Época 19 (2021): 255-290. https://doi.org/10.20318%2Fhn.2021.5882.
    Open access • Published • 10.20318/hn.2021.5882
  7. García-Fernández, Mónica. "De la castidad a la rebeldía. La sexualidad femenina en la prensa del segundo franquismo (1960-1975)". Babel. Civilisations et sociétés 20 2 (2021): 63-96.
    Published
  8. García-Fernández, Mónica. "Gender Metaphors in Representations of the Biological Body: An Analysis of Popular Medical Literature Published in Franco's Spain". Cultural History 6 2 (2017): 209-226.
    10.3366/cult.2017.0150
  9. García-Fernández, Mónica. "Sexualidad y armonía conyugal en la España franquista. Representaciones de género en manuales sexuales y conyugales publicados entre 1946 y 1968.". Ayer: Revista de Historia Contemporánea 105 1 (2017): 215-238.
    Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.55509/ayer/105-2017-09
  10. García-Fernández, Mónica. "Nuestro puesto está en el hogar. Los campamentos femeninos en Asturias durante el primer franquismo (1938-1945)". El Futuro del Pasado 3 (2012): 137-159.
Magazine article
  1. García-Fernández, Mónica. "«Aquel prolongado y aturdido silencio». Mujeres y represión franquista en Asturias", Memòria antifranquista del Baix Llobregat , 2023
Preface / Postscript
  1. García-Fernández, Mónica; García Arregui, Amaya. Corresponding author: García Arregui, Amaya. "Feminismos e historia". Preface to Identidades en transición, 95-105. Zaragoza, Spain: Universidad de Zaragoza. 2019.
    Published
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/01/27 A Crisis of (Male) Authority: Masculinity, Family and the "Rebellion of Youth" in Late Franco's Spain Workshop Family and Marriage in Twentieth Century Spain: Gender Politics, Subjectivities and Memory
University of Leeds (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2022/09/08 The Anatomy of Marriage: Hormones, Gender, and the Sexed Body in Franco's Spain Primum non Nocere: Physicians and Society in Europe (18th - 20th Centuries): An Interdisciplinary Approach
University of Pardubice (Pardubice, Czech Republic)
2021/11/18 Pureza, dignidad y nobleza. Literatura edificante, moral sexual y memoria del primer franquismo Imaginar futuros en el pasado. Conservadurismo y cultura popular (1915-1950)
Jaume I University (Castellón, Spain)
2021/10/01 Women's Associativism and Mobilisation in Francoist Spain Intervenções e Resistências: Mulheres e Associativismo em Portugal, 1914-1974
University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/09/10 De la familiar jerárquica al matrimonio-equipo. Matrimonio, género y religión en el segundo franquismo 15th Congress of the Contemporary History Association
University of Cordoba (Cordoba, Spain)
2019/11/08 Entre la norma y el deseo. Amor y sexualidad en la España de los años cincuenta Los años cincuenta. La década olvidada de la dictadura franquista (1951-1959)
University of Granada (Granada, Spain)
2019/09/24 "Un problema para la mujer". Redefiniciones de la sexualidad en la prensa femenina de principios de los años setenta International Congress The Public and the Private. Gender, Commitment and Transgression between the 19th and 21st Centuries
University of Alicante (Alicante, Spain)
2019/09/13 Sexualidad e ideales de género en la prensa del segundo franquismo (1960-1975) Presse et représentations dans le monde hispanique contemporain. Presse & genres
University of Toulon (Toulon, France)
2017/12/16 Las cárceles de mujeres en el franquismo Las presas políticas del franquismo
Archivo Provincial de Asturias (Oviedo, Spain)
2017/11/11 Infancia y educación sexual en el franquismo. Roles y representaciones de la familia, la madre y la paternidad 4th International Seminar of the Demeter Group. Maternity, Gender and Family: Historical and Legal Perspectives.
University of Oviedo (Oviedo, Spain)
2016/11/04 Gender Metaphors and Dualisms in Representations of the Body: An Analysis of Popular Scientific Literature Published in Spain During the 1950s and 1960s Workshop The Body in Cultural History
University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)
2016/07/18 Sex Education and Mother-Daughter Relationships in 20th Century Spain Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History
University of Trieste (Trieste, Italy)
2016/07/16 El asesinato de Conchita Robles. Un caso de violencia machista en la España de los años veinte 5th Meeting of Young Researchers in Contemporary History
Autonomous University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2015/04/26 Gender Metaphors and the Dissemination of Biological Knowledge about the Body in Franco's Spain Talking Bodies. An International Interdisciplinary Conference on Identity, Sexuality and Representation
University of Chester (Chester, United Kingdom)
2015/04/15 Metáforas y dualismos en la divulgación de conocimiento biológico sobre el cuerpo en la España franquista 6th Debate session for young researchers on gender issues
Autonomous University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2013/05/09 Cuerpo, género y sexualidad en los manuales médicos de educación sexual y consejos matrimoniales en el franquismo (1946-1968) 3rd Research Matters Conference
University of Oviedo (Oviedo, Spain)
2011/11/30 Parir para la patria. Control del parto y discursos sanitarios en el primer franquismo II Seminario internacional del Grupo Deméter. Juicios y prejuicios sobre el parto: Debates del presente desde el pasado
University of Oviedo (Oviedo, Spain)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2021/04/14 - Current Chair of the panel "Bodies, affects, sexualities. Identities and feminine struggles in History", II International Congress Territories of Memory. Feminist Struggle and Resistance(s): Walking Towards Equality (2021/04/14)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2018/02/23 - Current Co-organiser of session about the History of sexuality, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Workshop. Historians: Between experts and citizens. With Marie Walin (University of Toulouse/Casa Velázquez). (2018/02/23 - 2018/02/23)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2017/09/07 - Current Chair of the panel "Feminisms and History", 6th Meeting of Young Researchers in Contemporary History (2017/09/07)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
2023/01/27 - 2023/01/27 Family and Marriage in Twentieth Century Spain: Gender Politics, Subjectivities and Memory (2023/01/27 - 2023/01/27)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
University of Leeds Faculty of Arts Humanities and Cultures, United Kingdom
2017/11/20 - 2017/11/23 Chair of Panel "Gender and Francoism", 1st International Congress Territories of Memory: Francoism under Debate (2017/11/20 - 2017/11/23)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universidad de Valladolid, Spain

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022 - Current Asociación Española de Historia Religiosa Contemporánea (AEHRC)
2020 - Current Asociación Española de Investigación de Historia de las Mujeres (AEIHM)
2020 - Current Asociación de Historia Contemporánea (AHC)
2019 - Current Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS)

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2022/10/26 - 2022/10/28 21st International Colloquium of the AEIHM: In the Wake of Historical Feminisms
Member
Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
2017/11/10 - 2017/11/11 4th International Seminar of the Demeter Group. Maternity, Gender and Family: Historical and Legal Perspectives
Member
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
2011/11/29 - 2011/11/30 2nd International Seminar of the Demeter Group. Judgements and prejudices about childbirth: Present debates from the past
Member
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020 - 2021 Historia Contemporánea I History (Bachelor) Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
2014 - 2016 Introducción a la Historia Contemporánea History (Bachelor) Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
2014 - 2015 Historia Contemporánea History (Bachelor) Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023/03/22 Interview about the history of marriage, love and sexuality in Franco's Spain Revista de Estudios Históricos
2022/01/22 Interview about political violence against women during the Franco Regime in Spain Nortes

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2023/02/11 - 2023/02/11 Radio Euskadi Love, Marriage and Sexuality in Franco's Spain
2022/12/07 - 2022/12/07 El Nieru las Rapiegas Political violence against women in Asturias, Spain
2022/02/16 - 2022/02/16 Muyeres en la Historia. La Buena Tarde Political violence against women in Franco's Spain
2019/12/14 - 2019/12/14 Teselas Marriage, Love and Sexuality in Franco's Spain
2017/02/08 - 2017/02/08 Muyeres en la Historia. La Buena Tarde Hildegart Rodríguez, Spanish 1930s sex reformer

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022/02/01 - Current Hastapenak. Revista de Historia Contemporánea y Tiempo Presente (2530-3627)
Distinctions

Award

2023 Edith and Richard French Fellowship
Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, United States
2022 Premio extraordinario de doctorado
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
2021 10th AEIHM prize to doctoral dissertations
Asociación Española de Investigación de Historia de las Mujeres, Spain
2020 ASPHS Best Dissertation Prize 2017
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, United States
2020 Contemporary European History Prize
Oxford University Press, United Kingdom
2016 ISCH Prize Competition 2016 for Cultural Historians
International Society for Cultural History, Belgium

Other distinction

2023 Past & Preset Society grants to organisers of conferences and workshops
Past and Present Society, United Kingdom