Free Women of Spain

Abstract

"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"The work not only fills a gap in knowledge of women’s radical politics, but also addresses current concerns of feminist scholars." -Choice"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"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"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"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"... 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"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 EstateAckelsberg 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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