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May 21, 2021 · Harper of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland) talks about the central role of women in the Paris Commune and the victories for women's rights that they won....
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Women in the Paris Commune. The Paris Commune was an insurrectionary period in the history of Paris that lasted just over two months, from March 18, 1871, to the Semaine sanglante that ended on May 28, 1871.
Mar 25, 2021 · Women helped enforce the Commune’s requirement that all men aged 19 to 40 enlist in the National Guard — they hunted down and exposed “draft dodgers.” They publicly denounced police officers and their spouses as agents of Versailles.
Sep 28, 2021 · If Louise Michel has become the public face of women of the Commune, behind her is a small army of teachers, seamstresses, laundresses, shopworkers and domestic servants who took up the cause, and arms, to protect Paris from government control.
May 29, 2021 · Learn about the women of the Paris Commune through the words of Louise Michel. Today we celebrate the 191st birthday of this historic fighter!
May 22, 2023 · Unlike most historians of the Commune, you see women’s participation and gender as central to its operation. What led you to focus on this? I came to the Commune with an interest in women’s participation, which developed into an understanding of the gendered nature of the revolution.
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May 28, 2021 · She was writing a book on the Paris Commune, dealing particularly with the women, their active shaping of it, what they wished it to do, and what it was stopped from doing, for women’s lives. So: a study of what women gave and desired and of their struggle, defeat and disappointment.
