CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Ayguavives Arch, Monica |
|---|---|
| Title | Mujeres Libres: Reclaiming their predecessors, their feminism and the voice of women in the Spanish Civil War history |
| Summary | This thesis explores the Spanish women’s organization, Mujeres Libres (Free Women), founded at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and emerged from the anarchist movement. The aim is to recognize the organization Mujeres Libres, the founders and the relevant members from different branches. There are three main questions that I have addressed in this thesis; the first one is if Mujeres Libres was the only to fight the struggle for the emancipation of women and against the institutions to what I have underlined the pioneer role of Teresa Claramunt and Teresa Mañe by the end of the nineteenth century. I asked whether Mujeres Libres could be referred to as a feminist organization since the founders/relevant members did not identify themselves as feminist in the 1930’s but scholars made references to Mujeres Libres as a feminist organization since the 1970’s. I have discussed some of the feminist and anarchist claims of Mujeres Libres to show that it indeed needs to be considered as a feminist organization. It can be also described as an anarcho-feminist organization, as done by some scholars. The last question that I ask is if Mujeres Libres is part of the Spanish history within context of the Spanish Civil War, where I discuss that though women are absent in the history textbooks in High School; from the 2000’s the predecessors of the founders and Mujeres Libres are starting to be mentioned in some anarchist historical books. In Catalonia, an autonomous region in Spain, since the late 1990’s there had been oral history projects to recover the historical memory of the people mainly of women who lived through the Spanish Civil War and the Franco Regime (1939-1975). Things are going in the right direction but there is still a lot of work to do in order to represent women equally in the Spanish historiography. I have based my analysis in primary and secondary sources; and sometimes other published literature based on them. I have also done interviews that have helped me understand this area of study better but an elaborate discussion on the interviews is beyond the scope of this thesis. |
| Supervisor | de Haan, Francisca |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/ayguavives_monica.pdf |
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