The path of liberation. Women's associationism and workers' cultures in the Second Republic (1931-1936)

This paper provides some reflection on a series of associative experiences of women from different leftist women's organizations during the Spanish Second Republica (1931-1936). Through those organizations, women increased their public presence as well as their political connections and commitment through multiple actions and proposals. In parallel, these experiences allowed them to strengthen contact and interaction among them, thus making their mutual recognition and "mutual support" possible. Consequently, they developed their consciousness and identity as women, as socialists and as workers. In other words, their identity as "comrades" and their "associative sociability" opened the way to a "path for social and gender liberation" sometimes, however, in conflict with their own male partners.