Resistencia y compromiso de las mujeres antifascistas

The Agrupación de Mujeres Antifascistas (Anti-Fascist Women’s Group) was an illustrative example of the women’s mobilization during the Second Republic in Spain, and had quite a considerable number of members in various towns in the province of Castellón. These women organised themselves into resistance networks to help the Frente Popular Government win the war, by fighting against fascism in the rearguard and in various fields. They ended up forming one of the first feminist awareness movements, as they condemned and fought the patriarchal society both inside the leftwing organisations themselves and outside them. It was under the very circumstances created by the Spanish Civil War that they took on a more prominent role with greater freedom of action, as they had to take on positions and tasks which had until then exclusively belonged to men. However, their hopes of achieving a more egalitarian society were shattered by the victory of fascism, which would subsequently subjugate women under a tyrannical state nurtured by their own submission.