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Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women is a 1991 book by Martha Ackelsberg on feminist practices in the Spanish anarchist movement. It is supplemented by interviews the author performed with surviving members of Mujeres Libres .
Mujeres Libres (English: Free Women) was an anarchist women's organisation that existed in Spain from 1936 to 1939. Founded by Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Mercedes Comaposada, and Amparo Poch y Gascón as a small women's group in Madrid, it rapidly grew to a national federation of 30,000 members at its height in the summer of 1938.
Lucía Sánchez Saornil (13 December 1895 – 2 June 1970), was a Spanish poet and anarcha-feminist activist, best known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organisation together with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón.
Hypnos (Spanish: Hipnos) is a 2004 Spanish horror film directed by David Carreras in his directorial debut, [1] and starring Cristina Brondo, Demián Bichir, Féodor Atkine and Natalia Sánchez. Plot [ edit ]
[1] [2] She was the daughter of a Russian father and Spanish mother. In 1969, she made her film debut in Spain in El otro árbol de Guernica (The Other Tree of Guernica) when she was ten years old. Until her death in 1977, Sandra was one of the "Lolitas" of the coproduced Spanish Genre and "exploitation" cinema of the late seventies. [3]
She moved with her sons to Barcelona, Spain, where she joined the anarchist movement Mujeres Libres (Free Women), which provided such services as maternity centers, daycare centers, and literacy training to women. She learned Spanish and became director of four progressive schools in the city of Blanes, educating both teachers and children in ...
During the Spanish Civil War she was active in Orden del Olivo (the order of the olive branch), the Spanish arm of War Resisters' International, helping to give aid to the war's victims. [3] Poch y Gascón died in exile in Toulouse, 1968. [2] A Spanish-language biography of Amparo Poch was written by Antonina Rodrigo.
Lola Iturbe. Lola (Dolores) Iturbe (Barcelona, 1 August 1902 – Gijón, 5 January 1990) [1] [2] was a prominent Spanish anarcho-syndicalist, trade unionist, activist, and journalist during the Second Spanish Republic, [3] and a member of the French Resistance during the Battle of France.