Mujeres bajo regímenes totalitarios. Discursos y políticas de sumisión, discriminación y terror

Abstract

This article analyzes from a gender perspective policies of totalitarian regimes in Europe, in particular the Nazi regime, Stalinism and Franco's dictatorship, policies based on biological differences, class and social control.

Women lost rights acquired under repressive regimes that required them to be submissive and their role as wives and mothers. This discourse of inequality took the form of anti-Semitic policies, exclusion and a specific repression, as reflected in a myriad of memories of victims and selected works which are focused on concentration camps. These regimes failed to achieve their ultimate purposes and created an identity of resistance: "survive" to tell others.