Materials for ALBA workshop “Women and the Spanish Civil War”

Please read and view before the workshop to ensure a good discussion. 

Part I: Spanish militiawomen and American women volunteers

Lisa Lines, Milicianas: Women in Combat in the Spanish Civil War, Lexington Books, 2011: “Introduction,” pp. 9-26 and “Conclusion,” pp. 174-183 (PDFs)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sZ4ylv2oiAF94iCR61dLd87S3ZLwjYKS/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TuLlzwOG4LWtkvgGUqIwVWuFOM-VjKwa/view?usp=sharing

Images of militiawomen (Powerpoint)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1W7BnmR9YmtUa7kRvFBF3v8JJSZGqb6WF/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109209583103996619526&rtpof=true&sd=true

Photos of Evelyn Hutchins and Salaria Kea (Powerpoint)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QTw3YABA0yDh71HQ2rvJgRa3A1GMxrMz/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109209583103996619526&rtpof=true&sd=true

Footage of Evelyn Hutchins and Salaria Kea from interview of Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman with Julia Newman, director of the documentary on the American women volunteers, Into the Fire. The section that runs from 23:40 mins to 26:40 mins starts with Evelyn Hutchins talking and ends with Salaria Kea talking. (The whole interview is 31 mins if you want to watch it; the journalist Martha Gellhorn appears at the start.) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ko76wWy6OI 

Testimonies by American volunteer nurses (from Women’s Voices from the Spanish Civil War, ed. Jim Fyrth and Sally Alexander, Lawrence & Wishart, 1991):

  • Evelyn Hutchins, “Male arrogance defeated,” pp. 155-156 (PDF)
  • Salaria Kea, “Doing Christ’s duty,” pp. 151-154 (PDF)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-ZkGPNoLJ1SeCXhyJIQSL_EXvIPrZOYw/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BoqZdbU-5N50cFauqP7VoVeOnFDMWRuy/view?usp=sharing

Part II: Reprisals against Republican women

Extracts from Paul Preston, The Spanish Holocaust, W.W. Norton, 2002, pp. 149, 159, 333-334, 510-511, 513-514 (PDF) 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WRvgWI2DIqwPF5XEaq6SKJbjmg3b7TbZ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109209583103996619526&rtpof=true&sd=true

Tomasa Cuevas, Prison of Women: Testimonies of War and Resistance in Spain, 1939-1975, ed. and trans. by Mary E. Giles, SUNY Press, 1998:

  • Mary E. Giles, “Introduction,” pp. xii-xxii (PDF) (to be scanned by Gina)
  • Sample testimony (to be chosen and scanned by Gina)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OXp2DR1Deoz8XWl6zIX6Mj1RGHK9fQoi/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mn6P-ng9tprLAuWk-qA89LApLRQCRvIJ/view?usp=sharing

Part III: Women writers and photographers

Poetry:

  • Margaret Gibson, “From a Single Center…” (from The Wound and the Dream: Sixty Years of American Poems about the Spanish Civil War, ed. Cary Nelson, U of Illinois P, 2002, pp. 264-266) (PDF)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OmjRR70MvC95GIhNB7RpLNdI8CKlU4RlOxHtM3AKOfA/edit?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EPGI2rPU0nrvBtLI1Rs6dnAsJ9ansBLD/view?usp=sharing

Journalism:

  • Martha Gellhorn, “The Undefeated” (from Women’s Voices from the Spanish Civil War, ed. Jim Fyrth and Sally Alexander, Lawrence & Wishart, 1998, pp. 339-344) (PDF)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14vH-ZW5z4GXV1FNdO86sOYrY1HiSvn1a/view?usp=sharing

Photojournalism: