Gendering Antifascism: Women's Activism in Argentina and the World, 1918-1947

By Sandra McGee Deutsch

Winner, 2024 RMCLAS Thomas McGann Award Argentine women's long resistance to extreme rightists, tyranny, and militarism culminated in the Junta de la Victoria, or Victory Board, a group that organized in the aftermath of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in defiance of the neutralist and Axis-leaning government in Argentina. A sewing and knitting group that provided garments and supplies for the Allied armies in World War II, the Junta de la Victoria was a politically minded association that mobilized women in the fight against fascism. Without explicitly characterizing itself as feminist, the organization promoted women's political rights and visibility and attracted forty-five thousand members. The Junta ushered diverse constituencies of Argentine women into political involvement in an unprecedented experiment in pluralism, coalition-building, and political struggle. Sandra McGee Deutsch uses this internationally minded but local group to examine larger questions surrounding the global conflict between democracy and fascism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822947811
• ISBN13: 9780822947813
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"