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Falangist and National Catholic Women in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939 book cover

1st Edition

Falangist and National Catholic Women in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939

By Angela Flynn Copyright 2020
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge
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Although there is an established historiography on women’s roles during the Spanish Civil War (1936-9), little has been written on Nationalist women in the Republican-held zones. Women were the anti-Republican resisters of the first hour in the capital but they have been largely overlooked in the historical record.　 During the bitter civil conflict a sector of dissident women helped to create a... Read more

Contents;  Acknowledgements;  List of Abbreviations;  Introduction;  Part I: The Role of Women in The Clandestine Falange;  Chapter I: The Origins of Auxilio Azul;  Chapter II: The Structure and Organisation of Auxilio Azul;  Chapter III: The Role of Women in The Mixed Gender Clandestine Falange Groups;  Part II: The Women in Madrid’s Autonomous Fifth-Column Resistance;  Chapter IV: Traitors and Rebels;  Chapter V: Female Spies;  Conclusion;  Bibliography;  Appendix A

Biography

Angela Flynn is an historian at Oxford University who recently completed a DPhil under the supervision of Dame Frances Lannon. She co-teaches, alongside Professor Robert Gildea, a third-year undergraduate Special Subject on "France from the Popular Front to the Liberation, 1936-1939" and co-convenes an inter-disciplinary seminar series sponsored by TORCH Oxford/Stanford University in Oxford entitled "Conversations on Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood."

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