An Ocean of Heart

Martha Ackelsberg, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government and of the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College, is the author of Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women (Indiana University Press, 1991) and of Resisting Citizenship: Feminist Essays on Politics, Community, and Democracy (Routledge, forthcoming). Her research and teaching focus on the nature and structure of political communities, and, in particular, on patterns of power and participation within them.