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.
Author: Luisa Capetillo
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 09/14/2021
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780143136071
Language: English
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