"It's Okay, Sister, Your Wolf-Pack Is Here": Sisterhood as Public Feminism in Spain.
The unprecedented success of Spanish public feminism, which culminated in the International Women's Strike of March 8, 2018, cannot be properly understood unless we consider two events that took place in the fall of 2017: the trial for the gang rape of a young woman at the San Fermín fiestas in Pamp...
| Publicado en: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 45; no. 4; pp. 931 - 954 |
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University of Chicago Press
Summer2020
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