Free Women of Spain

<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<br /><br />The work not only fills a gap in knowledge of women's radical politics but also addresses current concerns of feminist scholars. --Choice<br /><br />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<br /><br />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<br /><br />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<br /><br />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<br /><br /> . . . 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<br /><br />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<br /><br />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.</p>