From Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo

Parallel to the congress Editors and translators beyond borders: women in the transnational anarchist culture (1890-1939), which will take place at the UC3M Campus in Puerta de Toledo (Madrid) between 19 and 21 March, at the Madrid headquarters of the FAL you can visit the exhibition Molders of the idea: women in the anarchist printed culture (visitable from 19 March to 26 April).

We speak of an exhibition, curated by researchers Lucía Campanella, María Migueláñez and Jordi Maíz, which collects materials from the archive of the Anselmo Lorenzo Foundation and other public and private archives, linked to the role of anarchist women in the libertarian printed culture prior to 1939.

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Within the framework of the important academic development of anarchist studies at the global level, a renewed interest has emerged in the libertarian printed culture (Madrid and Soriano 2012; Souza Cunha 2018; Yeoman 2022; Ferguson 2023), on which the first transnational political movement (Moya, 2009) was developed unthinkably. The anarchist-printed culture was massive and encyclopedic and, in its eagerness to educate the humble, had the ability to circulate texts of a very diverse nature: literary, scientific, technical and, of course, ideological, among so many others. With this hectic printer and translator activity, the anarchists and anarchists were pioneering agents and very active in the transfer of transnational knowledge. They participated in networks of exchange and production of prints that "globalized anarchism" (Prichard, 2022; Eitel 2022) in the last decades of the 19th century and the first of the 20th century.

At the same time, and despite the fact that the role that women played in the anarchist movement has been revisited in the last fifty years (Nash 1975; Rowbotham 1992; Enckell 2010; Pezzica 2013), there is still much territory to be explored in terms of the way in which anarchist women or close to the movement participated in that printed culture. The anarchist movement addressed, from its first writings, topics linked to the relationship between the sexes, the family and sexuality. Many editors and translators carried out these tasks with a view to deepening practical and theoretical equality within and outside the movement, demanding for women the same education and opportunities for participation, claiming an identical passion for freedom and proclaiming that women also have conditions and reasons for the fight against the state. This printer activism can be considered "feminist," with all the discussions involved in the use of the term in anarchist contexts (Barrancos 1990 and 1996).

The work as editors and/or translators of key female figures of internationalist anarchism such as Louise Michel, Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Soledad Gustavo or Virginia Bolten suggests this. It allows us to intuit the importance of the links between women, anarchist movement and printed culture. Alongside them, a plethora of women anarchists, or close to the anarchist media, stood out in the tasks of editing, printing and translating texts, libertarians and non-liberatives.

The exhibition we propose aims to continue recovering the role that I give to anarchist women in the editing and translation of texts, returning to those better known and taking many others out of oblivion.

Lucía Campanella (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

María Migueláñez (Universidad Carlos III)

Jordi Maíz (Universitat de les Illes Balears)

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