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Europe: Early Modern and Modern



Angela Jackson. British Women and the Spanish Civil War. (Routledge/Cañada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain, number 5.) New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. xii, 316.

Angela Jackson breaks new ground in her study of British women during the Spanish Civil War. The rebellion led by General Francisco Franco in 1936 against the democratically elected Second Spanish Republic stirred thousands of women and men in Great Britain to act in support of the republic. Most conspicuous were those who volunteered to fight in the International Brigades. In addition, however, were women who served as nurses, administrators, journalists, and in a number of other capacities. Thousands of others remained at home but worked ceaselessly on committees, organizing food drives and caring for Basque children who found refuge in Great Britain. Jackson points out that these women remain not just hidden from conventional studies of the period but also "hidden from feminist history." . . .

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