TY - JOUR
T1 - The Rewards of Female Fascism in Franco's New State
T2 - the Recompensas Y of the Sección Femenina de la Falange 1939-1945
AU - Biggane, Julia
N1 - I gratefully acknowledge the generous assistance of The Carnegie Trust for the
Universities of Scotland which awarded me a grant to consult the SF archives in the Real Academia de Historia in Madrid during the preparation of this article. I am also indebted to the archivists of the Academia, particularly Don Julio García González, Da Asunción Miralles de Imperial y Pasqual del Pobil, and Da Montserrat Calvo Rodríguez, for their advice, great helpfulness and efficiency.
PY - 2013/12
Y1 - 2013/12
N2 - The Recompensas ‘Y’ (the decorations awarded to the Sección Femenina of the Falange (SF) members for their work before and during the Spanish Civil War) were part of the apparatus of medals and insignia in the New State's politics of reward. The ‘Y’ award documentation gives a greater sense of the diversity of early female Falangists’ lived experience than hitherto available, and adds to our understanding of pre-war female fascism. The documentation suggests the significance of the 1937 Unification of Nationalist forces under Franco in terms of gender history and the impact it had on SF members’ lives. It also allows us to nuance—and in places constructively problematize—the at times rather homogeneous, defensive later self-representations by SF members.
AB - The Recompensas ‘Y’ (the decorations awarded to the Sección Femenina of the Falange (SF) members for their work before and during the Spanish Civil War) were part of the apparatus of medals and insignia in the New State's politics of reward. The ‘Y’ award documentation gives a greater sense of the diversity of early female Falangists’ lived experience than hitherto available, and adds to our understanding of pre-war female fascism. The documentation suggests the significance of the 1937 Unification of Nationalist forces under Franco in terms of gender history and the impact it had on SF members’ lives. It also allows us to nuance—and in places constructively problematize—the at times rather homogeneous, defensive later self-representations by SF members.
U2 - 10.1080/14753820.2013.847159
DO - 10.1080/14753820.2013.847159
M3 - Article
VL - 90
SP - 1313
EP - 1337
JO - Bulletin of Spanish Studies
JF - Bulletin of Spanish Studies
SN - 1475-3820
IS - 8
ER -