Perras callejeras, a strong name that can lead to misunderstandings regarding its erotic content, hides within it, however, a very special vision about the role of women in Spanish society of the time. It is striking, compared to other films of the genre, that three women, for various reasons ranging from the familiar to the social, are doomed to crime, form a gang and keep the police in check. Here we are presented with one of those paradoxes that occur in some film titles whose essence is contradicted by certain malicious interpretations. We could say that this film is one of the most purely fictional versions of the entire quinqui film series that came out in the late seventies and early eighties. The director, José Antonio de la Loma, was one of the initiators of the genre by filming Perros Callejeros (1975). After that film came two more deliveries of the adventures of el Torete, but none reached the level of rawness and tension achieved in the first, although the degree of violence itself was increasing. Goma-2 (1984) or Yo, El Vaquilla(1985) were some of the following creations signed by the director, always within that specific genre.

Normally the genre is composed of films that pick up on a social phenomenon on the rise: juvenile delinquency, showing a very disenchanted sector of society. There are many works that talk about the importance of concrete space in these films. Among other issues, in them, the features of this cinema are drawn and its preference for large cities such as Madrid, Barcelona or Bilbao, and especially for its more marginal neighborhoods. Some authors also state that they counted the life of one of these delinquents with an air between nostalgic and critical (Alfeo Álvarez and González de Garay 2011, 7). The points of disagreement with the work before us are obvious. Well, the band of women formed in the film is not a real example of crime, or natural126 actors, as could be the case of El Vaquilla, El Pera or the aforementioned El Torete.

Females are the undisputed protagonists of this film, breaking common topics in other works of the time, and even the genre.