Educación superior femenina y nuevas conformaciones identitarias: Juventud Universitaria Femenina (1919-1930)

This article analyses the way the Juventud Universitaria Femenina (JUF) was set up in 1920, just a few years after women were allowed to take higher studies in Spain,with the main aims of building and giving meanings to the new identity of «female university students». In a social setting in which some tinycracks were being made in the model of household femininity, the JUF disseminated the discourse and action taken by these intellectually trained professional women who, from 1928, extended their social-political participation, also demanding equal rightsfor women. By forming linguistic structures and with new life experience and practices, this was how the JUF trained a minority sector of university women to become anelite guiding the emancipation process, which gradually took on authority in public life. It similarly established an alliance with other feminist associations and with mixed groups of students to spread the identity model that they assigned themselves and in order to reach agreements on claims in respect of a more widespread group of female citizens, citizens who would partly become consolidated during the 2nd Republi