a couple of months ago, I found in my house, a kind of book he edited the Alicante City Council years ago. For me, reread the booklet was striking for several reasons. It's about the war in the old town and the many difficulties suffered by the residents of that area and in general all Alicante, at the time so hard and so cruel, told from the point of view of women.
The Mrs. Mary Pepito's great-aunt, sitting at the top of the C / Toledo. The more distant memory I have of my life there has been for having listened to my elders. And it was the day I came into the world: it was in my own house (the residence had been opened a few months ago and still was not customary to give birth there) and for the occasion, my father who was very proactive, had requested someone a battery for the light cut during delivery. That was my contact with the war ..., the rest did not live happily.
In the book there are many stories of things that happened in the 40 and 50, many of them touch your heart because are real and because I have a number of women who I met later. Mothers or grandmothers were my playmates.
There are few pictures but in many cases (time passes for all) do not put names to faces and other times, I passed the contrary: they do not put faces to names.
And there is almost nobody who can help me.
The book was published in the 90's and of course, by age, and many of those people who are not among us.
The title of the study is "The postwar period in the Old Town" and the caption: "is that the war was worse than war" .
Mary House Pansaca Women are the protagonists of the study and offer a view that has been displaced and neglected for decades: the contribution they made to overcome the critical situation of the 40 50.
Perhaps in the various aspects of the study that stand out, whether those of "networks" : a social relationship of mutual support and cooperation that women developed in order to overcome the difficulties encountered . This relationship is further characterized by solidarity, sharing the same resources and gaps, the members of a community feel, that relationship or contractual relationship. Only through such networks, it is possible to explain how those women could at the same time, alleviate the food shortages, as mothers and wives or cover the lack of social protection mechanisms that would address the precarious situations that exist.
little joy in difficult times Another aspect is the gold standard and extra-domestic work. The women were pushed to marry or have children, to perform all household chores, underemployed secondary works, protected for labor rights very precarious or nonexistent.
The third aspect of dating. The status of women, demanded to marry, for that reason they should be educated and that their goal of greater interest. The first step was to have a boyfriend, and his search became almost a cultural requirement, which conditioned a determining their relationship with men. Women should be reserved for the husband, this meant observing strict rules of behavior on the social imposition. Consequently, the male-female relationship was completely mediated, sexuality was absent, had to maintain an image of righteousness against the neighborhood, etc ...
meeting neighbors in the Plaza del Puente (Fogueres) The fourth aspect was that of motherhood, which appears as a social responsibility to be exercised regardless of whether the children were appropriate or not. Only then can explain facts as "madrinaje" , teaching by neighbors, raising children of mothers who had to work or collected if any misfortune happening familiar.
Jaume Lon in his shop. It appears his wife and granddaughter. late 1950 The study includes a host of stories about aspects everyday life in those years, relating to ration cards and food shortages, queues outside the shop of James Lon in the Plaza del Puente, going to the source of water, caring for sick or more helpless and alone, travel to the prison to see her husband in prison for political reasons (especially dramatic when it says that the family had food every day and when the prisoner died, it took several days to tell the family to stay with the food they had), etc ...
Antoñita. 1949 the end, as in a real village in of the city, appointing a number of women, their nicknames to which as I say at the beginning, I met mostly: Pepa Ramos, Teresa La Guapa, Mary Pansaca, embodies the Chufa, Josefina Xixonenca, Lola and Pepic Pumps, Harriet the Rorro, the tinsmith, Ms. Tomasa, Ms. Vicenta the Oven, Isabella patatera, Ms. Esperanza (owner of Wells Garrigós), Antonia's Terraet, the Hairdresser, the ironer , Ms Catherine of Hortet, Remedios and Juanita the Barbers, etc ...
And a little song to entertain the matter, we have Lolita Garrido very famous artist in the 40 and 50, the prototype of the singer beautiful, richly dressed and covered with the fans and jewelry and gifts through the few radios that existed at the time, enlivened the daily lives of good people. brings "Washerwomen in Portugal" raucous song that highlights the virtues of fine laundry protuguesas (...).
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