The struggle for survival: collective identities and female resistance in the democratic transition in Jaén

Abstract

This article focuses on highlighting the role of women as protagonists in the development of citizenship in the last years of the Franco regime and the beginnings of democracy, taking the province of Jaén as a geographical framework. Their traditional role in ensuring the survival of their family led them to fight for their husbands’ work and demand and fight for school places
for their children, medical care and better services in general. It highlights their role as a group in isolation and also their work within neighbourhoods and neighbourhood associations. Thus, attention will be paid to those groups of women that have received less attention historically, despite their prominent role in the development of mobilisation, whether highly spontaneous or organised, within different social movements.