The Radio Pirenaica women. The first anti-Franco Feminism in the Spanish radio

Abstract

Radio España Independiente (1941-1977), the clandestine radio station of the Spanish Communist Party (PCE), in their shortwave broadcastings from Moscow and Bucharest, became a great mass media in the 1960s, the voice more popular in the anti-Franco society. The study of the 15.500 listeners’ letters in the Historical Archive of PCE reveals the women leadership in the anti-Franco society during the Dictatorship. Through wage demands, protests over the cost of living, the aspiration for an education that was denied and the memory of terror suffered during the Civil War Post-War, the women listeners demanded in his letters a fairer society for their children. Letters to La Pirenaica make a magnificent coral portrait of the world of
women during the Franco regime, explained by the protagonists themselves.