Gender Violence in the Spanish Civil War with Charlotte Walmsley

Overview

On this episode of our Spanish Civil War Interview Series I was joined by Charlotte Walmsley a PhD researcher focusing on post-conflict gender violence. Gender violence is a phrase that we use several times in this interview, and so I thought it would be good to give a clear and concise definition of the term. I am by no means an expert on the topic, but there is a good quote from the European Institute for Gender Equality: “Gender-based violence and violence against women are terms that are often used interchangeably as it has been widely acknowledged that most gender-based violence is inflicted on women and girls, by men. However, using the ‘gender-based’ aspect is important as it highlights the fact that many forms of violence against women are rooted in power inequalities between women and men.”

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Further Reading

• Herrmann, Gina. “Voices of the Vanquished: Leftist Women and the Spanish Civil War.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 4, no. 1 (March 2003): 11–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/1463620032000058659.
• Lines, Lisa. “Female Combatants in the Spanish Civil War: Milicianas on the Front Lines and in the Rearguard” 10 (2009): 21.
• Morcillo, Aurora G., ed. Memory and Cultural History of the Spanish Civil War: Realms of Oblivion. History of Warfare, volume 93. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2014.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4f5OkQAVpk&t=386s
• https://eige.europa.eu/gender-based-violence/what-is-gender-based-violence
• https://www.unhcr.org/uk/gender-based-violence.html#:~:text=Gender%2DBased%20violence%20refers%20to,threatening%20health%20and%20protection%20issue.