# A Nation of Women

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- Authors: [Luisa Capetillo](https://www.bookquiver.com/luisa-capetillo)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2022-02-24

## Description

In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested for wearing men's trousers in public. This act of rebellion was the result of a lifelong devotion to socialist and feminist thought. And this zeal runs throughout her brilliant essays: in the challenges to big business, in her strident campaigning for the legalization of divorce, in the championing of 'free love'. At once a sharp critique and a celebration of world politics, A Nation of Women embraces humanism and envisions a world in which economic and social structures can be broken down, allowing both the worker and the woman to be free.

## Editions

### A Nation of Women

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4313-607-1
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2022-02-24
- Language: en_GB