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Memories of Resistance: Women's Voices From the Spanish Civil War

Shirley Mangini
Reviewed by Fritz Stern
July/August 1995
Memories of Resistance: Women's Voices From the Spanish Civil War
Shirley Mangini
Yale University Press
1995
226 pp.
$25.00
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An American scholar has collected stories about Spanish women, describing partriarchal abuse before the civil war and suffering and heroism during the war. Feminist theory seeks to interpret these authentic voices, poignant and rare in themselves.

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