Acción Católica de la Mujer and the control of morality. Film screenings in Castellón in the 1920s*

• Vicent Sanz-Rozalén ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat Jaume I

     Universitat Jaume I

     Castellón, España

     
• Localización: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, ISSN-e 1469-9524, ISSN 1470-1847, Vol. 31, Nº. 1, 2025, págs. 21-32
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In the strategy adopted by the Catholic hierarchy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to mobilise its followers in order to counteract the influence of currents it considered harmful to “social morality” and the maintenance of its power; women were given a new leading role. Militant Catholic women were to become essential to the “re-Catholization” of the public space by taking on the role of “social mothers,” transcending the private space to which they had hitherto b een relegated. Their role as mothers extended beyond the family sphere to occupy a pre-eminent role in the social sphere. Hence the significant involvement of Acción Católica Femenina (Women’s Catholic Action) in Castellón in the 1920s, which sought to influence the authorities to control the type of public spectacles that were performed and shown in the city, among which film screenings were a major concern.