¡¡Mujeres!! Trabajad En La Retaguardia
Poster
ca. 1937 (made)
ca. 1937 (made)
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In the early months of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), women fought on the Republican front line in a spirit of revolutionary idealism and gender equality. However, from March 1937, marking a move back towards the conservative tradition of segregated roles, women were required to work on the home front. This poster suggests that their new roles (symbolised by the typist, seamstress and nurse) were equally important to the Republican cause.
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| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph |
| Brief description | Spanish Civil War poster by Jesus Lozano entitled '¡¡Mujeres!! Trabajad En La Retaguardia'. Spain, ca. 1937. |
| Physical description | Image of three women shown in three-quarter length. The image recedes on the diagonal from the lower left to upper right corner. The woman in the foreground wears green and is cutting medical gauze with a pair of scissors. The figure in the middle ground wears white and is seated behind a sewing machine. The background figure is adjusting the mechanism on a typewriter. Spanish text printed in black and red across the upper margin. |
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| Credit line | Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko |
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| Summary | In the early months of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), women fought on the Republican front line in a spirit of revolutionary idealism and gender equality. However, from March 1937, marking a move back towards the conservative tradition of segregated roles, women were required to work on the home front. This poster suggests that their new roles (symbolised by the typist, seamstress and nurse) were equally important to the Republican cause. |
| Bibliographic reference | The Militant Poster 1936-1985. Dagmar Finkova and Sylva Petrova. International Organization of Journalists. Prague. 1986. |
| Other number | LS.612 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number |
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| Accession number | E.84-2004 |
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| Record created | June 15, 2004 |
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