Se trata de un estudio de Historia de la Educación de las Mujeres, sobre la organización denominada Sección Femenina de F.E.T. y de las J.O.N.S , la cual tuvo una importante participación en la educación formal y no formal de las mujeres españolas durante sus más de cuarenta años de existencia. Es un estudio local, en el que se relatan y analizan el funcionamiento y las actividades desarrolladas en Murcia por la Sección Femenina (Albergues, asignaturas escolares, Círculos de Juventudes, formación de las trabajadoras, Servicio Social, Coros y Danzas y Cátedras Ambulantes) quienes y como fueron las mujeres que a ella pertenecieron y las que recibieron sus enseñanzas e influencias. Las fuentes de información utilizadas para la realización del estudio han sido además de las bibliográficas, la prensa de la época y el testimonio oral de las personas que protagonizaron y vivieron los hechos, este testimonio ha sido recogido a través de 20 entrevistas abiertas. / It is a research on the history of the women's education regarding to the phalanx movement named Women's platoon, (Sección Femenina), a brand of the Spanish Falangist Organization, which played a relevant role during more than forty years dealing with formal and informal training and education of Spanish women. This study tackles the functioning and activities on a local area of Spain, (Murcia), developed by the Sección Femenina, (i.e. Refuges, Schooling subjects, Youth Groups, workers training, social services, Folk Choirs and dances, Itinerant professorships). Who and how the women enrolled in this organization were, and who received these teaching, doctrines and influences. This research relies on several information and documentation sources such us bibliographic sources, press information's at that time, oral testimonies. So far, this study encloses the outcomes of 20 open interviews of persons involved on this reality.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / The study outlines five areas of intervention in the development of women studies and politics on the continent. Firstly, it examines the problematic construction and the inclusion of women in the narratives of the liberation struggle in South Africa. Secondly, the study identifies the sphere of intellectual debates as one of the crucial sites in the production of historical knowledge about the legacies of liberation struggles on the continent. Thirdly, it traces the intellectual trajectory of Charlotte Maxeke as an embodiment of the intellectual contributions of women in the struggle for liberation in South Africa. In this regard, the study traces Charlotte Maxeke as she deliberated and engaged on matters pertaining to the welfare of the Africans alongside the prominent intellectuals of the twentieth century. Fourthly, the study inaugurates a theoretical departure from the documentary trends that define contemporary studies on women and liberation movements on the continent. Fifthly, the study examines the incorporation of Maxeke's legacy of active intellectual engagement as an integral part of gender politics in the activities of the Women's Section of the African National Congress. In the areas identified, the study engages with the significance of the intellectual inputs of Charlotte Maxeke in South African history. / South Africa