Daughters of Spain - Couverture souple

Fallon, Joan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1843865629 ISBN 13 : 9781843865629

Editeur : Vanguard Press, 2009

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

'I told them that it was wrong; that I was the mother, but they wouldn't listen. How could they put 'mother unknown', when I was standing there right in front of them?' Jeannette. 'We were just leaving the car park when an armed policeman stopped us and pointed his gun into the car and told me to get out. He said I was not allowed to leave the college in the company of a boy.' Pilar. Daughters of Spain gives a gripping account of the hard won changes within society that the women of Spain have achieved, seen through the eyes and experiences of the women themselves - mothers, daughters, grandmothers, granddaughters. From the beginning of the Civil War and Franco's totalitarian dictatorship, through to the socialist democracy it is today; from the 'Generation of 27' women in 1927, the Second Republic which gave Spanish women the vote in the 1931 Constitution, and the Falange founded by Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, the son of the right-wing dictator, a modern country has emerged. Using recorded first-hand interviews and authentic photographs, the author captures a vivid and unique picture of what life was really like for women over the past seventy years, of the hardships they endured and their aspirations for a more egalitarian future.

Biographie de l'auteur

Joan Fallon was born in Dumfries, in Scotland, but spent most of her formative life in the south of England. After some initial years working in industry she decided to become a teacher and trained as a mature student. She then enrolled with the Open University and learnt what it was like to balance a full time job with studying and bringing up her two children. When her children had grown up she changed careers and became a Management Consultant specialising in Behavioural Studies. She now lives in the south of Spain with her husband. This is her first book of non-fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vanguard Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843865629
• ISBN 13: 9781843865629
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 302
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible