Free Women of Spain : anarchism and the struggle for the emancipation of women /
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| Author / Creator: | Ackelsberg, Martha A. |
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| Imprint: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1991. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 229 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11099825 |
| Summary: | <p>""When historians take women's movements and gender differences in organizations... seriously, this book will become part of the canon.... a forthright effort to view women's participation in politics in exciting new ways."" --American Historical Review<p>""The work not only fills a gap in knowledge of women's radical politics, but also addresses current concerns of feminist scholars."" --Choice<p>""The book brings us something of the excitement of the revolutionary possibility lived by these women--and the frustration of their encounter with male resistance to including women's emancipation in the revolutionary program."" --Signs<p>""Theirs is a story of commitment and creativity, of steadfastness and practicality, of communal endeavour and the bleak individual fate of defeat, hardship, and exile."" --Gender and History<p>""Ackelsberg, in the roles of both historian and activist, has crafted a volume that speaks to a wide variety of interests.... Her story is rich with the memories and voices of women... "" --The Women's Review of Books<p>""The author examines the autonomous women's liberation organization in late-1930s Spain, which represented an alternative to the individualistic perspectives characterizing mainstream feminist movements of the time."" --Smith Alumnae Quarterly<p>..."" particularly strong on the ideology and organization of this radical women's group of the late 1930s."" --Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Bulletin<p>""Ackelsberg gives the reader a fine explanation of the Spanish events, the general perspective of anarchism and the inspiring goals and struggles of Mujeres Libres."" --Fifth Estate<p>Ackelsberg explores the development of Mujeres Libres, founded in 1936 during the Civil War in Spain as an organization dedicated to the liberation of women from their triple enslavement--to ignorance, as women, and as producers. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 229 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-217) and index. |
| ISBN: | 058502622X 9780585026220 0253301203 0253206340 9780253301208 9780253206343 |