Vol. 1 No. 2 (2016): Chilbirth in Historical and Social Perspective

The years under the dictatorship of General Franco from 1939 to 1975 were a period that being a woman meant the subjugation to husbands or fathers. Women's education was segregated and always focused on subservience; the implementation and establishment of the so-called "Sección Femenina" occasioned that  sewing and embroidery were more important that study other subjects that were considered masculine. The need for marital consent to perform some paperwork, the nonexistent legal capacity of women to decide on certain health issues or family planning were common aspects of everyday life of women.

These are just some examples of the innumerable list that filled the meaning of being a woman in this historical context; but none of these points list would find traces or hints of autonomy or freedom as gender, as women, or obviously not as parturient. Fortunately, today women can express their preferences, needs, desires and expectations about the process of labor and birth through its "birth plan