''Teresa'' was a monthly women's magazine which was in circulation in the period 1954–1977 in Madrid, Spain. Its subtitle was ''Revista para todas las mujeres'' (Spanish: ''Magazine For All Women''). The title of the magazine was a reference to

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. It was one of the official media outlets of

Sección Femenina The Sección Femenina ("Female Section"; SF) was the women's branch of the Falange political movement in Spain. Founded in July 1934 as part of the Sindicato Español Universitario (SEU) of the Falange Española de las JONS (FE de las JONS), an ...

, the women's branch of the

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political party.

History and profile

''Teresa'' was first published in January 1954. The magazine adopted a conservative political stance, but it was less conservative than ''

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'' and '' Y: Revista para la mujer nacional sindicalista'' which had been the official organs of the Sección Femenina in the 1940s. It was published by Servicio de Prensa y Propaganda, a publishing company of Sección Femenina, on a monthly basis. Target audience of ''Teresa'' was young and university-aged women. The magazine featured articles dealing with fashion, politics, science and cinema. Its fashion content mostly addressed the comfortables clothes for working women. The magazine presented a model for ideal Spanish women which was significantly different from the earlier models promoted by previous women's magazines of the Sección Femenina. For ''Teresa'' ideal women were those with moral, intellectual and elegant qualities. In April 1954 the Spanish psychoanalyst Carolina Zamora published an article on

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and his

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approach in relation to religion arguing that the conflict between the

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and psychoanalysis should be ended and that there was a Catholic psychoanalysis movement. Until 1975 the price of ''Teresa'' was 25 Ptas which was much cheaper than those of other magazines. The magazine folded in 1977.

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