Abstract
The Testimony of Women Involved in Anti-Francist Guerilla Activity (1939-1951) The experience and action of the women who fought in the armed resistance to Francism from the defeat of the Republicans in 1939 till 1951 has been rendered almost completely invisible. By analyzing an oral archival collection, one may partly reconstruct this experience, understand the reasons for its exclusion from received narratives of the period and present the difficulties today encounted by these former resistance fighters in recounting their “guerilla” past. These obstacles to communication are not only explained by the general characteristics of this past and its repression nor by the effect the refusal to legitimate this armed struggle had on the construction of testimony, even well after the return to democracy. They are in part produced by the influence of past and present gender domination and the use of discursive categories that marginalize the social dimension of the guerilla experience and the central role played in it by women. ■
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