Mujeres y violencia revolucionaria. Nuevas aportaciones sobre las milicianas en la guerra civil española

Abstract

This article focuses on women who volunteered for anti-fascist militias during the Spanish Civil War. Using unpublished sources, from the Army pensions, it will try to offer the global profile and volume of these “militia”, analyzing their leading role on the fronts. This is part of the context of political violence of the first half of the twentieth century and a female combative genealogy, from the Mexican “Soldaderas”. In a deliberate way, she avoids making a semblance of more famous militia women, to delve into the profile of other anonymous fighters of the Center Army, Asturias and Catalonia. The conclusions reached show the low socio-professional extraction of these volunteers from the popular militias, from there derives the importance of the economic motive in its enlistment, and the strategies that they articulated to avoid their demobilization, after the regularization measures of the Popular Army by Largo Caballero.