Dones antifeixistes... La dona a la reraguarda... US espera... (Catalan poster, Comissariat de Propaganda)
Poster with a red frame and a photomontage of women sewing at machines and tables in front of a hospital ward of iron beds, with nurses attending patients and hanging laundry above, under the headline 'Dones antifeixistes' and the line 'La dona a la reraguarda us espera' with an address and the Generalitat propaganda credit. The tell: women's rear-guard work is shown as orderly, caring labour and the call is addressed to them as a duty ('the woman in the rear is waiting for you'), so recruitment into war work is cast as ordinary domestic care.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1937
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Comissariat de Propaganda de la Generalitat de Catalunya
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Spain
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Second Spanish Republic
- Leader
- Francisco Largo Caballero
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Gender and suffrage, Home front
- Event
- Spanish Civil War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Commons public-domain tag; URAA status not cleared; hosted on owner decision October 2, 2026
Wikimedia Commons, File:Dones antifeixistes - La dona a la reraguarda - US Espera.jpg (author unknown or anonymous per the file page unless stated in the entry notes).
Text on the object
Original (Catalan) · read from the image, not independently checked
DONES ANTIFEIXISTES LA DONA A LA RERAGUARDA US ESPERA Avinguda 14 d'abril 389 baixos Comissariat de Propaganda de la Generalitat de Catalunya MOD. A: 28
Antifascist women; the woman in the rear is waiting for you; 14 April Avenue no. 389, ground floor; Propaganda Commissariat of the Generalitat of Catalonia; model A: 28
Translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader. 'Us espera' is read as 'waits for you' (plural address).
