Mujeres Libres en la Guerra Civil Española. La capacitación cultural y profesional en la región de Cataluña

Abstract

In order to offer a further contribution to the investigations about women's participation among history this study discloses the projects that the anarchist organization Free Women developed in the region of Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The novelty of the study lies in the analysis of the journal with the same name, Free Women, where the anarchist group denounced the situations of female oppression and claimed for the rights of women workers. In adittion the journal was the broadcast medium to publish Free Women's projects. For this reason the texts selected from the journal are those where the correspondents for Free Women reported on the founding of cultural centers, offering classes and courses for working women, as well as the organization of the professional activities intended to achieve women's training in Catalonia. The results show that the women in the rear had several both cultural and labour opportunities thanks to the initiatives of the anarchist group. In the case of Catalonia the cultural and professional training of women workers was developed in fifty-three delegations of Free Women, in which they organized a large number of activities that contribute to enriching the history of education.