a review of Five Wives: A Novel by Joan Thomas. HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd. 2019 // Share this on…
FE Author: Martha Ackelsberg
Then and now
by Martha Ackelsberg
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
July 19 marks the 85th anniversary of the Spanish Revolution. // Share this on…
Lessons from Spain’s Mujeres Libres
by Martha Ackelsberg
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
In 1936, groups of women in Madrid and Barcelona founded Mujeres Libres, an organization dedicated to liberation from their “triple enslavement to ignorance, as women, and as producers.” While it lasted for less than three years (its activities in Spain …