The female combatant in the Spanish War

militia women and female soldiers

Abstract

The purpose of these pages is to offer a new perspective, both quantitatively and qualitatively, in relation to the group of women who fought attached to armed units defending the republican cause. The study is the result of the analysis of documentary sources and the development of a database that includes civil and military information on 3,200 women. New data are provided regarding political affiliation, distribution and function on the combat fronts, organization and military units, marital status, occupation, geographic origin, or age, as well as an approximation of the number of them that died on the fronts that devastated part of the peninsular territory between july 17, 1936 and april 1, 1939.