Spanish Civil War Women

This essay is going to cover the analysis of how women figure is represented during the Spanish Civil war,(date) through a series of the most representative poster from the propaganda of the time.

Through the analysis of the historical context and the description of propaganda, it is going to be analysed the most characteristic representation of women figure during that time.

Spanish civil was propaganda were women figure was the main object, can be divided into two different groups, political and social.

During the period from 1936 to 1939 Spain was going through a civil war initiated by two different parties the nationalists and the republicans. Both parties were not only confronted in a violent was but also an ideological battle, where

At the beginning of the 20th century, women were forbidden from political, social, cultural and professional background. The fact that women were not provided or allowed to receive education, alongside been restricted from the professional industry, were obstacles that they had to go through every single day.

The problems mentioned before were linked to the Spanish social system, that as it is mentioned before, it was a patriarchal society.

A patriarchal society is understood as pyramidal system were men’s figure dominates. In this context women had no independency and while men went to work their only responsibility was attached to household’s chores and children care.

Because of such oppression some groups of women started to raise their voices understanding that this unequal situation could not keep up any more.

As a result of the Republic and the Constitution of 1931 equality of rights between women and men were enact and therefore extrapolated to family, political and social background.

Article 25

“The following may not be basis for privilege before the law nature, descent, sex, social class, wealth, political ideas or religious

One of the sectors affected by this conjuncture were women, whose life style experimented a drastically transformation.

In the context of war, where men abandoned their homes to fight, women increment their power acquiring more autonomy and capacity of decision over themselves. This was the result of some women starting to built up a career for instance in politics, where before they were rejected from.

Women’s figure became the most claim both in the National and Republican side since the breakdown of the civil war. On that time the street were full of politic propaganda which transmitted messages using social persuasion as a tool to show the situation of the war. Regarding to gender representation in the context of the war, women’s figure became more powerful through mass media which in that time was per excellence The Poster. (El cartel)

Although it was developed during the II Republic, during the Civil war is when The poster as a piece of communication grow into the most relevant