Women's Role In Spain 1930s

The years presided over by the government of the Second Republic (19311936) were key to advances in the process of womens emancipation that was already under way but ultimately cut short by the National factions victory. Spanish feminism in this period was typically about "dual militancy", and was greatly influenced by anarchism. It was about trying to understand what role women should play in Spanish life.

Women were also politically active in large numbers in this period as a result of constitutional reforms. In 1930 there were approximately six million families, of which, 85 percent were working class or peasant families. In five million of these, the women were doing exclusively housework.

The employment of women was fraught with difficulties. In total, the book provides information on 106 different women, as well as 16 unique topics that relate to these womens participation in Spanish political, intellectual, and cultural life during thirties. mobilize women, and the main Catholic political entity, the CEDA, was the most successful in doing so.

While the CEDA's female members never gained an equal voice with men, they had more political influence than any previous Spanish women. In the early twentieth century, the steady increase of women entering higher education led to mixed gender university theatre groups. The lack of extant archival documentation complicates the task of reconstructing such experiences in many contexts and cultures.

The document explores the evolving role of women in Spain during the tumultuous years of the Spanish Republic (1931-1939) and the subsequent Franco regime. It Examine attitudes toward women in 1930s Spain.

Look at the approaches of the anarcho-syndicalists to womens emancipation. Review the anarcho-syndicalist approach to culture, education and sexuality. Highlight the importance of the social dimension to the revolutionary struggle in Spain.

Womens public visibility in the years of the Second Republic was strengthened through their active role in the Civil War, both on the front and in the rearguard, but curtailed by the victory of the Nationalist faction. Most women's social circles consisted of other women: family members, neighbours, fellow workers, or those they met at the market place. Men, conversely, tended to operate in a largely male world, whether in the factory, at union meetings, or in local bars.