Prisonnières contre le franquisme

Irène Gimenez’s historical study examines the lives of female political prisoners in Franco’s Spain from the 1960s through the mid-1980s, extending analysis beyond the Civil War period into a less documented era. Drawing on oral histories, archival testimony in multiple languages, and activist literature from communist, anarchist, and Catalan/Basque independence movements, Gimenez constructs a gendered history of political incarceration and repression. The work addresses the historiographical invisibility of women militants in armed struggle organizations while grappling reflexively with the author’s own proximity to the subject matter. Published by CNRS Éditions, the study situates imprisonment within broader structures of state violence including torture, contributing to expanding scholarship on gender and activism across political upheaval and post-dictatorial transitions.

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