Inbal Ofer is Assistant Professor of Modern European History, the Open University of Israel, specialising in 20th century Spain and gender and women's history within Right Wing movements and authoritarian regimes. She has published articles relating to the history of women under the Franco regime in several leading journals in the US, UK and Spain. Her work on the Women Section of the Spanish Fascist Party received the II Premio Internacional Jose Antonio Maravall de Historia Politica, from Departamento de Historia del Pensamiento y de los Movimientos Sociales y Politicos, Universidad Complutense, Spain.