Popularising right food and feeding practices in Spain (1847-1950). The handbooks of domestic economy
Perdiguero Gil, Enrique (Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche)
Castejón-Bolea, Ramón (Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche. Departamento de Salud Pública, Historia de la Ciencia y Ginecología)

Fecha:	2010
Resumen:	The aim of this paper is to analyze a sample of domestic economy handbooks in order to assess the popularization of correct food and feeding practices in Spain between 1847 and 1950. With this contribution, we wish to evaluate another factor that would influence the Spanish food transition. We are aware that this is a very indirect source, given the high levels of illiteracy among women in Spain during the last third of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. A further factor to be considered is the low proportion of girls attending school. We have analyzed the handbooks published in three periods. The first ranges from the last third of the 19th century to the first decade of the 20th. These handbooks are considered in order to provide background for a comparison with the works published from 1900 onwards. The second period focuses on the 1920s and the 1930s. The last period covers the handbooks published after the Civil War under the monopoly of the Sección Femenina (women's section of the Falange). Over the years under consideration, recommendations underwent a progressive modification from the very simple leaflets used in the 19th century to the introduction of scientific factors into the teaching of domestic economy. The work of Rosa Sensat represented the beginnings of this trend. A further modernizing factor was the appearance of vitamins in some of the handbooks. After the war, the number of handbooks decreased and they were, in general, very poor. If we consider the content on vitamins, there was a lack or shortage of information in comparison with some of the books published in the same period outside the monopoly of the Sección Femenina. In conclusion, we can state that the repetition of recommendations on good feeding habits and the increase in girls attending school would exert a positive influence on the food transition of the Spanish population.
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Lengua:	Anglès
Documento:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Materia:	Educació ; Noies ; Alimentació ; Espanya ; Primera meitat del segle XX ; Educación ; Niñas ; Alimentación ; España ; Primera mitad del siglo XX ; Education ; Girls ; Food ; Spain ; First half of the 20th century
Publicado en:	Dynamis : Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque. Historiam Illustrandam, Vol. 30, Núm. (2010) , p. 141-165, ISSN 2340-7948

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DOI: 10.4321/S0211-95362010000100006

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