Her work focuses on the nature of power and its relationship with communities. Ackelsberg the immediate antecedents of mujeres libres can be traced at least back to 1934, when small groups of anarchist women in both madrid and barcelona although independently of each other became concerned about the relatively small numbers of women. Ackelsberg is an american political scientist and womens studies scholar. Martha ackelsberg writes a comprehensive study of mujeres libres, intertwining interviews with the women themselves and analysis connecting them with. Militants in the anarchosyndicalist cnt union, mujeres libres struggled against fascism, the state, and reaction. Mujeres libres, an organization of anarchist women established during the spanish civil war, was characterized by a dual focus on capacitacion empowerment and captacion mobilization. Cases used in her research include feminist activism in the united states and the mujeres libres, an antifascist womens organization during the spanish revolution of 1936.
The paper argues that, although mujeres libres did not define itself as a. Mujeres libres free women were a group of women anarchists who both for womens liberation and an anarchist revolution during the spanish civil war. In this respect, mujeres libres position seems exactly to parallel the position of the anarchist movement with respect to the social revolution and the war more generally. Martha ackelsberg writes a comprehensive study of mujeres libres, intertwining interviews with the women themselves and analysis connecting. Mujeres libres, an organization of anarchist women established during the spanish. Anarchism and the struggle for the emancipation of women by martha a.
Content by or about mujeres libres, free women, an anarchosyndicalist womens organisation within the spanish cnt union in the 1930s, active in 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. Reader do not support viewing pdf files within firefox on mac os and if you are. Martha ackelsberg joined the smith faculty in 1972, was appointed five college 40th. Ackelsberg s book on the free women of spain, the mujeres libres.
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