Cowards don’t make history; and the women of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) were no cowards. Courageous enough to create revolutionary change in their daily lives, Mujeres Libres mobilized over 20,000 women into an organized network to strive for community, education, and equality for women -during the Spanish Revolution. Martha Ackelsberg writes a comprehensive study of Mujeres Libres, intertwining interviews with the women themselves and analysis connecting them with modern feminist movements.
Martha Ackelsberg is a professor of government and a member of the Women’s Studies Program Committee at Smith College, where she teaches courses in political theory, urban politics, political activism and feminist theory. She has contributed to a variety of anthologies on women’s political activism in the United States.

Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women

History

Ackelsberg, Martha

Americas

AK Press

Common perception of women in wartime relegates them to the sidelines of history—working in munitions factories or waiting for their men to return. The truth is that much of the resistance to fascism should be chalked up to the people about whom official accounts having nothing to say. Partisanas excavates the history of women who planted bombs, shouldered guns, and were among the most active participants in the European Resistance.
 Ingrid Strobl is a well-known filmmaker, artist, lecturer, and writer. She makes her home in Cologne, Germany.
 Martha Ackelsberg is the author of Free Women of Spain.

Partisanas: Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism and German Occupation (1936-1945)

Strobl, Ingrid

Sobre la bse de un estudio riguroso y profundo de las condiciones sociales y politicas que permitieron el surgimiento de un movimiento emancipatorio de mujeres en la Espana revolucionaria del 36, Ackelsberg realiza una cronica de los esfuerzos de Mujeres Libres por crear una organizacion constituida por y para mujeres de las clase trabajadora, con el objetivo de prepararlas para ocupar su lugar en la revolucion y en la nueva sociedad que se avecinaba. En la presente se analizan a fondo las razones que llevaron a un numeroso grupo de mujeres del ambito libertario a la creacion de Mujeres Libres - en contra de la voluntad de buena parte de los hombres e, incluso, de algunas mujeres del Movimiento Libertario-; los problemas, temas de disputa y reaciones que mantuvieron con este; y sus discusiones internas, objetivos y funcionamiento. Pero lo que la hace especialmente interesante es que no es simplemente un estudio historico, sino que, incidiendo especialmente en el analisis anarquista de las relaciones de dominacion y subordinacion y en la centralidad que ocupa en este la nocion de comunidad, Ackelsberg plantea que puede aportar el discurso y la experiencia de Mujeres Libres a la teoria y lucha feminista contemporanea.

Mujeres Libres: El Anarquismo Y La Lucha Por La Emancipacion De Las Mujeres (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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