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Author Calver, Jasmine

Title Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism The Comité Mondial des Femmes Contre la Guerre et le Fascisme, 1934 - 1941
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (217 p.)
Series Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right Ser
Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Communist Conceptions of Fascism, 1922-1935 -- The Amsterdam-Pleyel Movement -- 1. The Women of the Comité Mondial des Femmes Contre la Guerre et le Fascisme -- Experimentations and Engagements with Communism -- Conceptions of Anti-Fascism -- National and International Activist Connections -- Conclusion -- 2. Sites of Anti-Fascist Collaboration and Exchange: CMF Congresses -- Congress Appeals -- Delegate Composition
The Communist Character of the Congresses -- Speeches -- Conclusion -- 3. The Comité mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme, the Soviet Union, and the Comintern -- Personal Communications between the Comité and Soviet Women -- Anti-Fascist Women as Political Tourists -- Conclusion -- 4. The European Campaigns of the Comité mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme -- Mujeres and Milicianas: The Spanish Civil War Campaign -- 'The Return of the Housewife': Campaigns against the Nazi Party's Policies on Women -- Conclusion
5. The Global Campaigns of the Comité mondial des femmes Contre la Guerre et le fascisme -- 'The Long, Endless Ordeal of Our Mothers': Feminine Approaches to the Italian Invasion of Abyssinia -- 'To-day China Is Near Us and So Are Her People': Responses to the Humanitarian Crises of the Second Sino-Japanese War -- Conclusion -- 6. Campaigning on a National Scale -- Universal Suffrage in France -- Women's Right to Work -- Women's Reproductive Rights -- Conclusion -- 7. Traditional Femininity as a Tool of Women's Emancipation -- Advice for the Self -- Advice for Women as Mothers -- Conclusion
Conclusion -- Appendix: The CMF's Political Action Plan for Spain, 1936/1937 -- Bibliography -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Women's World Committee Against War and Fascism -- History
Anti-fascist movements -- History
Women and communism.
Anti-fascist movements.
Women and communism.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1000773744
9781000773743