A participação feminina durante a resistência italiana (1943-1945)

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to analyze the contribution of partisan women in the Italian resistance during the period from 1943 to 1945. The First and Second World War added to fascism gradually contributed to the change of Italian patriarchal society. With the outbreak of the First World War, the first opportunity for women to achieve some autonomy arises, there is a great return of women to the industrial sector, where they begin to occupy the interior of factories as workers in the manufacture of explosives and weapons. At the same time, women became heads of families, and rural women workers began to receive more recognition. According to the elaborated research, it was found that in the period between the Second World War until the liberation in 1945, women throughout the country, from different social strata, occupied important positions, carrying out actions with the brigades, risking their lives acting as staffette gathering information in the cities, in the countryside and in the mountains, thus occupying different positions throughout the resistance, in addition to acting as fighters in clandestine groups, such as the GAP, SAP and GDD. Therefore, the research points out that without the hard work and dedication of the women, the Resistance would not have developed.