Mujeres que cargan: las artistas y las imágenes de maternidad en la Guerra Civil española

Based on the analysis of works by artists Francis Bartolozzi (1908-2004), Juana Francisca Rubio (1911-2008) and Kati Horna (1912-2000), this article proposes a rethinking profusion images mothers during Spanish Civil War. The “miliciana” (militia woman) “madre combativa” (combative mother) were two female stereotypes most represented in iconography period, but proposed these problematise them proposing an alternative model woman that situates maternal work, care relationality as places emergence political. who carry take motherhood away from propagandistic rhetoric both sides. They distance themselves self-sacrificing mother fascist ideology, also combative republican mother.