Masclisme(s) i vida quotidiana durant el franquisme: la reelaboració literària de Beatriu Civera i de Maria Beneyto

Abstract

Summary: Beatriu Civera (Valencia, 1914–1995) and Maria Beneyto i Cuñat (Valencia, 1925–2011) are two of the most powerful literary voices in the post-war Catalan narrative of the Valencian Community, as well as two of the authors who wrote most prolifically about the types of violence used against women during Franco's rule. We will be analysing works that are especially critical of certain groups of Catholic women, and that refer to the degrading treatment received by predominantly female groups in both the private and public spheres, such as prostitutes, single mothers and leftist women. The analysis also covers the daily violence, both physical or psychological, that ‘nonproblematic’ women had to endure. This perspective is, therefore, somewhat unusual in literary tradition up until now, exposing a series of power relations while also offering new nuances in terms of the historical perception of women’s lives during the dictatorship. Keywords: Catalan literature, women writers, Francoism, violence against women, symbolic violence, charity, matrimonial relations, Valencian Country