Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1313-1337 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | Bulletin of Spanish Studies |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| Early online date | 11 Nov 2013 |
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| Publication status | Published - Dec 2013 |
Bibliographical note
I gratefully acknowledge the generous assistance of The Carnegie Trust for theUniversities 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.