You know I’m obsessed with Mujeres Libres, anarchist feminists during the Spanish Civil War. I’ve also posted about 19th century Argentinian anarcho-feminists. Today, I’m reading about Japanese anarchist feminists at the turn of 20th century: e.g. Itō Noe theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ito-no…
“Rise up, women wake up! As in the struggle workers are engaged in against capitalists to break down the class system, our demands for freedom and equality with men...will not be won if we do not raise our voices, if no blood is shed,” Kanno Sugako, 1906 samurairevolution.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…
#Argentina - No God, no boss, no husband: The world’s first explicitly anarchist-feminist group was created as part of the thriving 19th century Anarchist movement in Argentina. It produced the first anarcha-feminist newspaper, La Voz de la Mujer.
libcom.org/history/no-god…
libcom.org/history/no-god…
#Spain - my review of Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Emancipation of Women by Martha A.
Acklesberg, on the Mujeres Libres movement preceding and during the Spanish Civil War
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Acklesberg, on the Mujeres Libres movement preceding and during the Spanish Civil War
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An editorial in La Voz de La Mujer asserted, “We believe that in present-day society nothing and nobody has a more wretched situation than unfortunate women.”
Women, they said, were doubly oppressed - by bourgeois society and by men.
Women, they said, were doubly oppressed - by bourgeois society and by men.
To misogynist anarchist men:“You had better understand once and for all that our mission is not reducible to raising your children and washing your clothes and that we also have a right to emancipate ourselves and to be free from all kinds of tutelage,whether economic or marital”
La Voz de la Mujer rejected as self-serving male anarchists’ assertion that women’s emancipation could be ignored until “after the revolution.”’ 
“It is not difficult to see why feminists were attracted to Anarchism and why they were so rightly opposed to male anarchist hypocrisy. Its key ideas stress the struggle against authority, including the power exercised over women in marriage and the family.”
The Anarchist emphasis on oppression and on power relations opened up a space within which women could be seen simultaneously as the victims of class society and as the victims of male authority.
“We hate authority because we aspire to be human beings and not machines directed by the will of ‘another,’ be this authority, religion, or any other name.”
The aim of La Voz de la Mujer is best summed up when one of its supporters signed herself “No God, No Boss, No Husband.”
The aim of La Voz de la Mujer is best summed up when one of its supporters signed herself “No God, No Boss, No Husband.”
