A nation of women : an early feminist speaks out
Capetillo, Luisa, 1879-19222022
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In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested for wearing men's trousers in public. This act of rebellion was the result of a lifelong devotion to socialist and feminist thought. And this zeal runs throughout her brilliant essays: in the challenges to big business, in her strident campaigning for the legalization of divorce, in the championing of 'free love'. At once a sharp critique and a celebration of world politics, 'A Nation of Women' embraces humanism and envisions a world in which economic and social structures can be broken down, allowing both the worker and the woman to be free.
Main title:
A nation of women : an early feminist speaks out / Luisa Capetillo ; edited with an introduction by Félix V. Matos Rodríguez ; translated by Alan West-Durán.
Author:
Capetillo, Luisa, 1879-1922, authorMatos Rodríguez, Félix V., 1962-, editorWest, Alan, 1953-, translator
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2022.
Collation:
320 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780143136071 (pbk)
Dewey class:
305.42
Language:
EnglishSpanish
BRN:
3192473