Repositori URV

Identifier: imarina:9156234

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina9156234

Authors:
Montserrat Duch Plana

Abstract:
Any summary of the plural and diverse feminist movement in Catalonia in the 20th century needs to go over the 19th-century precedents and also take a look at the present situation. We shall give a brief review of the fight for women’s suffrage, the labour movement and female citizenship, and the progress made in the period between the wars, particularly in the autonomous Catalonia of the Spanish 2nd Republic. We also focus on the features of the second wave of Western feminism under the long Franco dictatorship and the outburst of the movement in the transition to democracy. The contraction cycle during the construction of the welfare state and the force of institutional feminism led to changes and continuity until the onset of the crisis and the new cycle of mobilization at the turn of the century. Specialized bibliography and our own long-term research enable the movement to be situated in the European context.