Franco's repression of women in Asturias: reconstructing postmemory with family stories

This article addresses the postmemory creation process referring to the Francoist repression against women in the Valle del Nalón, Asturias, between 1937 and 1958. It has started from the bibliographic review of the period, works on sexual repression in recent war conflicts and on memory creation and transmission processes. Subsequently, interviews have been conducted with people who lived through that moment and their descendants. Solidarity networks in which women are the cornerstone appear as important instruments for family and social cohesion. All this in a hostile environment produced by the Franco regime that has damaged the process of transmission of memories. The article reflects the difficulties that interlocutors have to remember precisely because of the repression itself that tried to erase with a unique story what really happened.