Guerreras

In 2008 the media opened their front pages with the image of a pregnant woman, Carme Chacón reviewing the troops on Armed Forces Day. The same media that, a year earlier, had highlighted her status as the first woman in the history of Spain to be appointed Minister of Defense. It seemed to be ignored that, throughout the centuries, there had been many women involved in the military. Women who, in previous centuries, had broken the rule that limited them to the domestic sphere to get involved in military actions, some out of pure instinct in order to defend their families, others obeying a secret military vocation that forced them to resort to the most diverse ruses, the most frequent being to disguise themselves as men. Guerreras aims to vindicate these names, most of them forgotten by the general public or limited to the realm of legend.