Rural women and professional training through women’s press during Francoism (1939-1959) Authors Sara Ramos Zamora Universidad Complutense de Madrid Carmen Colmenar Orzaes Universidad Complutense de Madrid Keywords: Women’s Section, peasant women, rural instructors, agricultural professional training, women’s magazines. Abstract The aim of this paper is to study non-formal education initiatives undertaken by the Women’s Section (SF) through women’s press during Francoism, specifically the Y, Medina, Teresa and Consigna magazines. The paper also analyses the reception of these training activities in rural areas through the periodical press kept in the SF’s archives corresponding to a large part of Spain, focusing on the initiatives held by the Corps of Female Public Health Disseminators in Rural Areas and Rural Instructors. Both were directly responsible for the promotion and training of rural women regarding housework, motherhood and farming activities. In particular, Rural Instructors worked at Travelling Professorships, School Farms and Rural Households, which is our scope of study.Keys words: Women’s Section, peasant women, rural instructors, agricultural professional training, women’s magazines. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Author Biography Sara Ramos Zamora, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Downloads PDF (Català) PDF PDF (Español) Issue No. 24 (2014): juliol-desembre Section Monographic theme License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació.Authors answer to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.The Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.