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Las Sinsombrero (Spanish for "hatless women") were a group of female thinkers and artists in the Generation of '27. They were so named for the initiative taken by Maruja Mallo, Margarita Manso, Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca of removing their hats in public at Puerta del Sol in Madrid as a form of protest. Film producer Tània Balló describes the hats as representing an "intellectual corset that relegated them to the mere role of wives and mothers".

A 2015 film about the group, named Las Sinsombrero, included the members of the group Maruja Mallo and Concha Mendez.

"They threw stones at us, calling us all sorts of things", Mallo herself recounts in recordings made by Spanish National TV (TVE) after returning from exile. The documentary "Las Sinsombrero", which gathered together a large amount of material and interviewed researchers and relatives of these women, took up the impulse of those who had worked for decades to rescue them in the more or less erudite or academic sphere, especially within university circles, in order to disseminate and extend it to the general public. The success of the documentary spread interest in this group and consolidated the label with which they are known today.

Most of them lived, studied, and practiced their art in Madrid. While embracing modernity and European avant-garde movements, they also drew on popular traditions. Engaged with their social context, their work contributed to significant developments in Spain’s cultural and artistic landscape.

Their contributions are still little studied and, for the most part, have remained on the margins of anthologies and manuals on art and literature to the present day, although they developed a constant and outstanding activity in fields as varied as literature, poetry, painting, music, film and philosophy. Many of them ended up in exile after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War and continued their production outside Spain, which made them even more recognised outside their own country.

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