Ionized gas and stellar content in a sample of HII galaxies

We present the first results of an extensive study of the stellar content and the ionized gas structure for a sample of BCGs. Deep broad (BVRI Johnson) and narrow (Hα) CCD images have been obtained for about 25 galaxies. For a subset of objects, selected on the basis of their apparent structure, long-slit spectroscopy has also been obtained in order to investigate the interaction between the underlying stellar population and the ionized gas.