Polixene Trabudua, historia de vida de una dirigente del nacionalismo vasco en la Vizcaya de los años treinta

Abstract

The personal testimony of Polixene Trabudua allows us to analyse the process of the incorporation of women in to the public sphere during the Thirties. The participation of women in nationalist propaganda was associated with the creation of a new rhetoric whose main significance was "the mother". Throught the symbolic figure of the mother, the young nationalist activists managed to infringe the limits of the private sphere. On the other hand, the life story of Polixene Trabudua enables us to assess the contrast that existed betweeen the public exaltation of the mother figure and the survival of social attitudes of undervaluing mothers and their child-raising tasks and procreation in the private sphere.