Colita: the participation of the post-Franco period photojournalist in the photobook Antifémina. The demand for women’s freedom as the object of her lens’ gaze

Abstract

Colita was very active in the struggle for the vindication of women´s rights, especially in the years immediately after Franco´s death. Vindicación Feminista (1976-1979) was one of the first and most serious attempts to create a rigorous debate of denunciation and information on everything that affected and concerned women, an authoritative voice at the service of the feminist movement in Antifémina. It became a challenge to show through photojournalism the visual representation of the freedom of expression of women and their bodies, the opening of the new morals that still dragged “memory” of the Regime, to show women as stern consumers of catholic and political ideologies and to express the rejection of the standard canons of beauty.