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A History of the Women’s Antifascism Movement in Argentina that Contains Lessons for Opposing Fascism Today Argentine women’s long resistance to extreme rightists, tyranny, and militarism culminated in the Junta de la Victoria, or Victory Board, a group that organized in the aftermath of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in defiance of the neutralist and Axis-leaning government in Argentina.  A sewing and knitting group that provided garments and supplies for the Allied armies in World War II, the Junta de la Victoria was a politically minded association that mobilized women in the fight against fascism. Without explicitly characterizing itself as feminist, the organization promoted women’s political rights and visibility and attracted forty-five thousand members. The Junta ushered diverse constituencies of Argentine women into political involvement in an unprecedented experiment in pluralism, coalition-building, and political struggle. Sandra McGee Deutsch uses this internationally minded but local group to examine larger questions surrounding the global conflict between democracy and fascism.

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A superb book on the only major Argentine antifascist association composed entirely of women. Attracting disenfranchised women, the Junta de la Victoria fostered a democratic alternative to fascism and politicized women in the Southern Cone. The contemporary resurgence of right-wing populist and neo-fascist groups in the Americas makes this meticulously researched study, of a relatively unknown organization of the 1940s, of particular relevance. Highly recommended. --Raanan Rein, author of Populism and Ethnicity: Peronism and the Jews of Argentina In this deeply researched book, Sandra McGee Deutsch provides a compelling narrative of the struggles of Argentine women, often operating in an extremely hostile environment, to combat the rise of fascism at home and abroad. It is a major contribution to our understanding of Argentine history and has significant implications for the present day. --Richard J. Walter, professor emeritus of history, Washington University in St. Louis

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Sandra McGee Deutsch is professor emerita of history at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the author of Counterrevolution in Argentina, 1900-1932: The Argentine Patriotic League; Las derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890-1939; and Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation: A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880-1955, which won a Latin American Jewish Studies Association Book Award. She is also coeditor of Women of the Right: Comparisons and Interplay across Borders and The Argentine Right: Its History and Intellectual Origins, 1910 to the Present.

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