Women in the antifrancoist resistance, a state of the matter

Abstract

The research of the feminine resistance to Franco’s regime has come up against a certain kind of marginalization by the “classic” antifrancoist historiography, as well as with the difficulty of constructing its object of study. This difficulty is overcome thanks to theoretical contributions from other historiographies that light up some aspects of the feminine political activities traditionally attributed to the private sphere. The action taken by women enters progressively in the field of what are considered to be resistance actions against the dictatorship. Starting from the assumption that the specific repression towards the dictatorship subjugated women, this research revises the state of our knowledge about this feminine resistance, from the ones carried out in the field of daily life, to the effective membership to clandestine organizations of the antifrancoist opposition.