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Activism, Revolution And War: Mujeres Libres Addressing The Personal And The Political, Martha A. Ackelsberg
Activism, Revolution And War: Mujeres Libres Addressing The Personal And The Political, Martha A. Ackelsberg
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Mujeres Libres, an organization of anarchist women established during the Spanish Civil War, was characterized by a dual focus on capacitación (empowerment) and captación (mobilization): (a) empowering women to enable them to recognize and act on their own potential and (b) mobilizing them into the organizations of the broader libertarian movement. An exploration of the activist biographies of two of its three founders (Lucía Sánchez Saornil and Mercedes Comaposada), as well as of two of its younger activists (Soledad Estorach and Sara Berenguer), makes clear how reflecting on personal experience within a larger political frame led to the creation of …