‘The Franco regime shared with the Roman Catholic Church a series of assumptions about gender roles and their allegedly 'natural ' basis in sexual biology. In this way of thinking, women were destined to a life centred on the home and the care of …show more content…
Finally, she dies bleeding on a bed. The scene where we see her pointing out to her lower abdomen in pain, along with the words she pronounces: “Everything is a lie. There’s nothing. They’ve lied to me”, clearly refers to the emptiness of the female position she was made to assume.’ In Cría Cuervos, Anna’s mother is portrayed as an absent figure, which is what the Francoist ideals on women attempted to convey. ‘The fallacy of patriarchal discourses in general when conceptualising the mother role as a position through which to exercise some agency as a