ABSTRACT
Since the emergence of the contemporary women’s movement, activists and scholars have been interested in women who engage in political violence, particularly in the context of left-wing, nationalist and progressive social movements. As part of the new scholarship in women’s studies in the early 1970s, researchers investigated the lives of women who played prominent roles in anarchist, socialist and feminist movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Autobiographies of these revolutionary figures, as well as compilations of their letters and speeches were reprinted by radical presses. Feminists also documented first-hand accounts of the experiences of Third World women fighting in guerrilla organizations in their nations’ struggles against colonialism.
