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A translation of women's testimonies about their experiences in the prisons of Spain following the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 collected by Tomasa Cuevas, herself a surviving victim of the Francoist prison system.Prison of Women presents oral testimonies of women incarcerated following the Spanish Civil War. The primary voice in the collection, Tomasa Cuevas, spent many years in prisons throughout Spain as a political prisoner. After the death of Franco in 1975, Cuevas began to collect oral testimonies from women she had known in prison as she traveled throughout Spain recording their stories. These, along with hers, eventually were published in three volumes in Spain. Prison of Women is a collaboration between Tomasa Cuevas and Mary E. Giles, translator and editor, who wrote the introduction and afterword, and provided contextual information in notes and a glossary. The testimonies offer a compelling record of the years leading up to the Spanish Civil War, the aftermath of that horrendous struggle, and a revealing testament to the strength of the human spirit.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Prison of Women
• Subtitle: Testimonies of War and Resistance in Spain, 1939-75
• Author: Tomasa Cuevas, Mary E. Giles
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 247
• EAN: 9780791438572
• ID: 04700271
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Weight: 500 g
• Dimensions: 241 × 165 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. July 1998

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