ABSTRACT
It has been said that ‘The Spanish Civil War was as a mirror into which men gazed and had cast back at them not a picture of reality, but the image of the hopes and fears of their generation.’1 However, although the ‘reality’ of the issues at stake in Spain may have been more complex than many people in other countries imagined, nevertheless, the hopes they cherished and the fears they saw for the future were very real. As this study has shown, women too could see in the mirror of the Spanish war, not only a horrifying magnification of their anxieties for the fate of their families in the maelstrom of modern warfare, but also the clearly discernible image of an emergent, more egalitarian, social order being brutally stifled at birth.
