Francoist repression against women. La Causa General de Madrid

Abstract

The paper emphasizes the “female historical invisibility”, many times reported in Gender Historiography, with the ultimate goal of broadcast the Francoist repression against women during the period elapsed since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War to the Franco period. This paper is, also, to add a small contribution to the significant effort developed by some colleagues on this field of study, and it stresses some aspects less known and less studied. This prisons were full of republican women, some of them sentenced to death. On one hand, the text analyses the prison files as an example of the official repression discourse. On the other hand, it also deals with some of these women’s stories, testimonies and memories as an example of antifranquism resistance.