¿INTELECTUALES ORGÁNICAS? LAS ASOCIACIONES DE AMAS DE CASA Y EL DEBATE EN TORNO AL PAPEL DE LAS MUJERES EN SU CALIDAD DE CONSUMIDORAS Y CIUDADANAS ACTIVAS (ESPAÑA 1963-1982)

This article presents the history of housewife associations during the last decade of Francoism and the Transition to Democracy in Spain. The concept of “organic inte-llectuals” (coined by the Italian thinker Antonio Gramsci) is used to study the role of activists who called themselves, first and foremost, housewives and consumers. The intent is to keep track of how the different associations that mobilized Spanish housewives represented the daily reality of their lives.