Work tiressly: breadwinners, carers and counter-models. the spanish post-ward period through wome

Un modo de entender la posguerra: las mujeres y sus trabajos

Abstract

The principal aim of this paper is to highlight the relevancy acquired by women at the end of the Spanish Civil War. In the post-war years, many of them became the exclusive breadwinners of their families. The imprisonment, exile or death of their husbands, as a result of the violent Francoist repression, made it so that only women could raise their families. Going beyond what has already been researched by numerous and valuable works published to date, we will expose how, in order to survive the 1940s and 1950s, many women challenged the labor legislation and subsidies created by the regime. Rather than keeping Spanish women out of the labor market after getting married, the exceptional social and economic circumstances of the post-war period made them counter-models to the ideal of femininity defended by the dictatorship