Beyond the double blind spot: Relocating communist women as transgressive subjects in contemporary historiography

• Published in: Gender & history Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 755 - 774
• Main Author: Strazzeri, Victor
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2024
• Subjects: Activism; Communism; Feminism; Historiography; Militancy; Women; Womens rights

ABSTRACT This article identifies a specific historiographical gap obfuscating communist women, namely, a ‘double blind spot’ rooted in the combined effect of the scant consideration of women in histories of communism and of communist activists in accounts of the women's movement. It traces this...