Survival strategies between submission and dissent: a reading of francoist repression in terms of gender

Abstract

In this work, a reading of Franco's repression is made in the light of the gender perspective, to deconstruct the foundations around which the participation of the female collective has been historicized and demonstrate the androcentric and patriarchal biases that still prevail. To this end, we propose a situated approach to primary sources, the integration of secondary sources as well as the conjunction of the perspective of macro and microanalysis of oral history, to defend a much greater and prolonged role in time of women, for whom the Francoist model of femininity was erected in an exclusive tool of "sexual repression".

In this context, the daily survival carried out to a large extent by women, far from being submissive acceptance of their social, generic and family destiny, provides us with new arguments to build history "from below" with vital trajectories of resistance and dissidence.