Lidia Menapace, Who Fought Fascists and Sexists, Dies at 96
She was a partisan in northern Italy during World War II and denounced efforts to discount the role of women in the Resistance. She had been hospitalized with Covid-19.
Lidia Menapace turned to feminism and pacifism after serving partisan duty during the war. She was elected a senator at 82.Credit...via Brisca family
Published Dec. 14, 2020Updated Dec. 18, 2020
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She hid explosives under her clothes. She delivered maps and antifascist propaganda slipped between the pages of works by Cicero. She brought medicine by bicycle to wounded partisans hiding in the mountains.