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Martha Ackelsberg is a professor of government and a member of the Women's Studies Program Committee at Smith College, where she teaches courses in political theory, urban politics, political activism and feminist theory. She has contributed to a variety of anthologies on women's political activism in the United
Produkt Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women (Ackelsberg Martha)(Paperback) označuje EAN kód 9781902593968.
Cowards don't make history; and the women of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) were no cowards. Courageous enough to create revolutionary change in their daily lives, Mujeres Libres mobilized over 20,000 women into an organized network to strive for community, education, and equality for women -during
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