Medical anarchists and Masculine domination between 1872 and 1914: Masculine domination in transnational networks and masculinity models in the Spanish medical anarchists José García Viñas and Luis Bulffi

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article focuses on two publications by Spanish anarchist doctors: Apuntes para el estudio médico-higiénico de la miseria (1877) by José García Viñas, and ¡Huelga de vientres! (1904) by Luis Bulffi. The paper sets out to analyze these sources considering how male domination social and symbolic structures were perpetuated within medical, anarchist, and neo-Malthusian transnational networks in which anarchist doctors García Viñas and Bulffi were involved. Moreover, the article will also assess how the alliance between anarchism and medicine that they represented contributed to a particular construction of masculinity models for other groups of men and women, in spite of the image of sexual equality propelled by anarchists and doctors with progressive ideals.