Revising memory: Judicial acts and life stories in the Women´s History construction

Abstract

This article addresses the questions of women´s experience and gender-identity and its relationship to autobiographical writings. During the last twenty years to first-person sources has had a central role in social and cultural History, helping to create a theoretical space for reflection of the concepts of experience and narrative identity how an interpretative process which are produced across to personal writing. Their, identity and personal narrative writing, are themselves mediated by the cultural discourses but also by Women´s memory and experience.

Submission, service and sacrifice are the values transmitted to women, who must be (mainly) wives, mothers and servants of the Mother country. The life of the woman, in clear inferiority respect to men, is confined to the care of the home and the children, and its public life is limited to agreement and to collaborate with the interests of the Regime.