Spanish Civil War Interview Series 10: Milicianas with Jessica McIvor
History of the Second World War
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Rosario the Dynamiter: A Precursor to Lino Deena
The treatment differs on whether the women themselves were actively involved in combat or if they were staying more on the auxiliary side of things and working. There's a really fantastic quote by a Catalan anarchist militia woman, Conjita Barrecojado, which says we went as a man, we went not as soldiers, because we did not consider ourselves soldiers, but as a group, nine men of one woman. So that was kind of re-emphasizing that sense of shared solidarity and camaraderie. But that was not the universal experience. We had a lot of groups that were a lot more reluctant to have women take on equal roles and to be involved in the same degree as
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