• 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...
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  • Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón, to form Mujeres Libres in 1936. Mujeres Libres was an autonomous anarchist organization for women committed...
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    membership of United Socialist Youth. The war also saw the folding of Mujeres Libres, the anarchist women's organisation (1936-1939), and women facing horrible...
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  • feminists. One of the most notable libertarian women's groups was the Mujeres Libres, an anarchist feminist organisation that aimed for women's liberation...
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    created or flourished. These included Asociación de Mujeres Antifascists (AMA), and Mujeres Libres. During the Spanish Civil War, various political and...
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    Autónoma de Mujeres de Barcelona, an organization founded around 1891.  She and Claramunt sought to create Associación Librepensadora de Mujeres. Ságarra...
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  • forces. They encounter resistance even within their own "Free Women" (Mujeres Libres) organization as one woman (that resembles Federica Montseny) tries...
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    Amparo Poch y Gascón (category Mujeres Libres)
    Gascón was born in Zaragoza. She was one of the founding members of the Mujeres Libres and was appointed director of social assistance at the Ministry of Health...
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  • and their articles of federation claimed to support women's rights. Mujeres Libres was created in this period, and served as the largest and most important...
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    Lucía Sánchez Saornil (category Mujeres Libres)
    poet and anarcha-feminist activist, best known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organisation together with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón...
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    participated in the Spanish Revolution of 1936 and was a founder of the Mujeres Libres movement. Concha Liaño was born on 24 September 1914, in the Parisian...
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    prostitution continued and would not end until the official end of the war. Mujeres Libres became one of the most important women's anarchist organizations during...
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    battles as to whether their autonomy should be personal or political. Mujeres Libres, founded by Lucia Sánchez Saornil, Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch...
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    political efforts, women sometimes created their own organizations like Mujeres Libres though such organizations still were often not accepted by their male...
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    Suceso Portales (category Mujeres Libres)
    within the anarchist movement. She was noted for her participation in Mujeres Libres, a libertarian women's organization, which she joined in 1936, and its...
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    Federica Montseny (category Mujeres Libres)
    and the provision of aid for refugees. She also collaborated with the Mujeres Libres in the advancement of women's rights, carrying out a series of wide-ranging...
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  • Lucy Parsons. In the Spanish Civil War, an anarcha-feminist group, Mujeres Libres (Free Women) linked to the Federación Anarquista Ibérica, organized...
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  • feminist and anarchist scholars rekindled popular interest in her life. Mujeres Libres was an anarchist women's organization in Spain that aimed to empower...
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    Mercedes Comaposada (category Mujeres Libres)
    Gascón, she was the co-founder of the libertarian women's organization, Mujeres Libres. Mercè Comaposada i Guillén, was born in Barcelona on 14 August 1901...
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  • own status. Men in the FAI were vehemently opposed to the creation of Mujeres Libres, a women's only anarchist organization created in response to female...
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    Mika Feldman de Etchebéhère (category Mujeres Libres)
    in 1936, and was also active in the anarcha-feminist organization, Mujeres Libres. Mika was born in 1902, in Moisés Ville, a small colony founded in 1889...
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    discouragement by male leadership, eventually led to the creation of Mujeres Libres by Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón...
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    Antònia Fontanillas Borràs (category Mujeres Libres)
    Antònia Fontanillas Borràs (29 May 1917 – 23 September 2014) was a Spanish Catalan seamstress, anarcho-syndicalist, trade unionist, and militant anarchist...
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    revolution was the rise of an anarcha-feminist women's movement, the Mujeres Libres. The organization, with 30,000 members at its disposal, set up schools...
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    broader European groups such as the 1930s Spanish anarcha-feminist group Mujeres Libres, the 1934 French women's branch of the World Committee Against War and...
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    War. Arden Press. ISBN 9780912869155. de Ayguavives, Mònica (2014). Mujeres Libres: Reclaiming their predecessors, their feminisms and the voice of women...
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    a legacy that a few years after her death would be picked up by the Mujeres Libres organization. Teresa Claramunt i Creus was born in 1862 into a working-class...
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  • created the Institut Mujeres Libres and Casal de la Dona Treballadora. She contributed to the papers Tierra y Libertad and Mujeres Libres as well as a book...
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  • libertarians like Libre Estudio, la Federación de Pensionistas de la CNT, Ràdio Klara and the Al Margen. She was a member of Mujeres Libres and the Fundación...
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    Pecharroman, Carolina (1 July 2018). "Teresa Mañé, la "madre de las mujeres libres"". MujeresRTVE. Periodistas Olvidadas (in Spanish). RTVE. Retrieved 8 October...
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