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Desmantling patriarchy: political practices and Spanish feminist movement slogans in the democratic transition

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espanolEl movimiento feminista en Espana adquirio su mayor desarrollo en los anos setenta con el inicio de la transicion democratica. El proceso transicional representaba una oportunidad para la reivindicacion de los derechos de las mujeres y poner las nuevas bases sobre el lugar que debian ocupar en la futura sociedad democratica, asi como para denunciar la represion que la dictadura impuso al colectivo femenino. Las campanas y practicas politicas desarrolladas por el movimiento feminista en Espana fueron acompanadas de simbolos y lemas que formaban parte de la produccion simbolica del movimiento feminista como movimiento social. Estas representaciones simbolicas ayudaron configurar una identidad colectiva, al mismo tiempo que les permitio mostrar publicamente de manera clara y sintetica cual era su proyecto politico. EnglishThe feminist movement in Spain arrived to its highest development in the seventies with the beginning of the democratic transition. The transitional process represented an opportunity for the vindication of the rights of women an established the new bases on the place they should represent in the future democratic society, and also to denounce the repression of the dictatorship imposed on behalf of women. Campaigns and political practices developed by the feminist movement in Spain were accompanied by symbols and slogans that were part of the symbolic production of the feminist movement as a social movement. These symbolic representations helped to set up a collective identity, while at the same time allowed them to display anywhere, shortly and clearly what was their political project