ed. pirineum Mujeres, Migración a la Modernidad
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Traditional historiography has frequently ignored the role of women as the backbone and engine of social change in contemporary history. In the Aragonese Pyrenees, as in the rest of traditional cultures, the most important factor for the collapse of the social system was the change in the role that women had played until then, a fact that would lead to depopulation and subsequent abandonment.
"Women, migration to modernity" aims to recover and value women and groups of women who in the first half of the 20th century managed to emancipate themselves from the fate that awaited them when everything was against them. A female search for dignity that would be the greatest engine of social change of the 20th century, although it has always been undervalued.
The book is a compendium of articles - stories or reports - on the role of women in the social changes experienced in Spain and the Aragonese Pyrenees in the first half of the 20th century. A border volume - on horseback from Spain and France - that reviews recent history from a local and feminine point of view. Try to vindicate the role of women, either anonymously or with a name and surname, in that migration to modernity whose first-person account has almost been forbidden to us.
“Women. Migration to modernity ”are the tea-selling Ansotanas who inspired Galdós and Sorolla; the swallows that crossed the border to work in the industry of the French foothills; the emigrants to America; the teachers during the civil war ... but also proper names that made the reverse journey such as Anne Lister, Louise Carlé, Violet Alford, Lilí Álvarez or Margalide Le Bondidier.
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