![]() ![]() So what was the product of an oppressive, coercive system – less educated, less participative women – was mistaken for a reflection of some inherent nature of the female sex. Maybe the context of women having largely been reduced to exclusively domestic roles in the previous social structure? I’ve read at least that there was no education for females during this time and so the Mujeres Libres were one of those who stepped in to change that. What this makes me wonder is the "why." Why would men who put their lives on the line to further the cause of equality and liberty for all, and trust in the ability to contribute and drive to cooperate in all to be able to sustain such a radically free society, be also so quick to dismiss women as lessers, as those incapable of “serious” organising, fighting, participating? But of course they didn’t, and of course there needed to be a sub-movement for women’s freedom within the larger movement for people’s freedom. ![]() I thought (naively) that men with an anarchistic bent would naturally consider and treat women as their total equals. What stood out to me was the need the women of anarchist Catalonia felt to establish their own organization. ![]()
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