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Rosario Sánchez Mora (21 April 1919 – 17 April 2008) was a Spanish female Republican veteran of the Spanish Civil War. [1] She was nicknamed la Dinamitera (the Dynamiter) for her expertise with explosives, and was a Republican heroine in the Spanish Civil War.
Many women first traveled to Paris, before going by boat or train to fight. A 1937 agreement designed to stop foreign intervention eventually largely put a stop to recruitment to the International Brigades for both men and women. [51] The first Spanish Republican women to die on the battlefield was Lina Odena on 13 September 1936. With ...
Another reason the role of Spanish women on the Republican side in the Civil War has been ignored is there is a lack of primary sources. [1] [6] This was a result oftentimes of either fleeing government forces destroying documents or women themselves destroying documents in order to protest themselves. [1] Concealing their own involvement in ...
The first Spanish Republican women to die on the battlefield was Almeria born JSU affiliated miliciana Lina Odena on 13 September 1936. [35] [9] [27] [39] With Nationalist forces overrunning her position, the unit commander chose to commit suicide rather than to surrender at a battle in Guadix.
The first Spanish Republican women to die on the battlefield was Lina Odena on 13 September 1936. With Nationalist forces overrunning her position, the unit commander chose to commit suicide rather than to surrender. [7] [24] [29] Her death would be widely shared by both Republican and Falangist propagandists. With Nationalist forces ...
Woman training for a Republican militia is a famous photograph by German photographer Gerda Taro (1910–1937) during the Spanish Civil War in 1936, taken on Somorrostro beach in Barcelona. The photography depicts a female republican militia member [ 1 ] on the Somorrostro beach of la Barceloneta neighborhood.
Despite many divisions on the left, communist and other women would often visit Republican Union Party (Spanish: Partido de Unión Republicana) (PUR) centers, where they would interact with other leftist women and discuss the political situation of the day during the early period of the Second Republic. Participants included Dolores Ibárruri ...
For Republican women, Francoist Spain was a double loss, as the new regime first took away the limited political power and identities as women which they had won during the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939), and it secondly forced them back into the confines of their homes. Motherhood would become the primary social function of women in ...