Les silenciades. Sis casos de repressió franquista contra la dona a Paterna (Six cases of Franco's repression against women in Paterna) (València Provincial Council, Bocins Series, 2023), by Gema López García.
Paterna was the tragic scene of the murder of 2,237 people during Franco's dictatorship, twenty of whom were women. This book aims to recover the memory of six of those women. Through their stories we will try to show a real image of the gender-specific repression suffered by all those women considered "enemies of the regime" during the Civil War and the dictatorship. We will be located in the Paterna Cemetery to enter into all the phases of the documentary and scientific process of recovery of the victims, which we have reached eighty years too late.
Through their names and examples, we will remember all the women who suffered the horror and fought against a regime that was cruel to the female population. They wanted them submissive, silent, devout, imprisoned, dead?
What they did not know was that they were burying seeds.
Gema López García (Madrid, 1985) holds a degree in Biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid, is a specialist in Forensic Anthropology and an illustrator. She is a member of the ArqueoAntro Scientific Association, and participates in the excavation, exhumation and forensic anthropological study of the victims of the Civil War and Franco's repression, mainly in the Valencian Country. She also participates with the ARMH in Asturias, and in several artistic projects related to democratic memory. She has participated in several publications and artistic projects related to Democratic Memory in recent years.
