Francoist perpetrators: theories, discourses and practices. An analysis from a gender perspective

Abstract

Based on the study of the radio speeches given by the military coup leader Gonzalo Queipo de Llano in the summer of 1936, the analysis of the theoretical work of the Francoist psychiatrist Antonio Vallejo Nágera and the collection of testimonies of women who in the late Franco regime were tortured by police officers of the Political-Social Brigade, this work exposes the centrality that the gender dimension should occupy in the definition of the figure of the perpetrator in Francoist crimes.