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There was a time when being a woman was almost a crime. And yet, there were women who refused to be silenced. This book is more than an essay: it is a living chronicle of resistance, memory, and transformation. Divided into two parts, it begins with a precise analysis of the Franco regime and its impact on women's lives, revealing how the Women's Section and the Patronage for the Protection of Women shaped a submissive, dependent, and silenced female identity for decades. It also addresses the difficulties encountered in establishing social services in Burgos.

The second part is the heartbeat of collective memory: a narrative that compiles the work carried out by the feminist movement during the Transition and post-Transition periods, focusing on the Burgos Women's Assembly. Pamphlets, meetings, campaigns, internal contradictions, external challenges… every page is a testament to the daily struggle for rights that seem basic today, but were unthinkable then. Written from within the activism, with rigor and emotion, this book recovers a history that should never have been forgotten: that of the women who built democracy from the margins.

María Ángeles González Delgado began her career in the late 1970s, linked to the Communist Youth Movement, the youth organization of the Communist Movement (MC), and to the trade union CCOO. From 1979 onwards, she became more closely involved in feminist activism, maintaining her collaboration with CCOO through the Women's Secretariat and participating in what was known as the Burgos Women's Assembly. Through the Women's Assembly, she actively collaborated in the anti-NATO campaign and in various anti-militarist movements from a feminist perspective. In 1995, she participated in the NGO Forum of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and has been very active as a researcher and teacher in the field of equal opportunities and the prevention of gender-based violence, with several publications, courses, and educational projects focused on values ​​education. In 2006, she received an Honorable Mention in the "Irene Awards: Peace Begins at Home," granted by the Center for Educational Research and Documentation of the Ministry of Education and Science .

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