Belén Sárraga Hernández y las mujeres españolas exiliadas en México, 1939-1950

Abstract

Based on the Spanish exiled press and oral testimonies, this article discusses the contacts between the well-known Spanish feminist Belén Sárraga Hernández and the Spanish Antifascist Women ́s Union (UMEA) in Mexico, in their fight against fascism and Francisco Franco. Sarraga ́s anticlerical and freethinking stance dating from the late nineteenth century, was interwoven with a pacifist attitude during the rise of fascism and the outbreak of World War II. The fight against Fascism linked Sárraga and UMEA ́s women. This article concludes that Sárraga ́s case confirms the continuity of the mobilizations of women for peace in the late Nineteenth Century and early Twentieth Century with the one of the 1930s and 1940s.