Virginia Bolten
Argentine anarchist (1870–1960) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Virginia Bolten (1870–1960) was an Argentine journalist and anarchist feminist activist. An anarchist agitator from an early age, she became a leading figure among the working women of Rosario, organising for the Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA) and leading the first women's strike in the country's history. After being recruited into the anarchist movement in Buenos Aires by the Italian anarchist Pietro Gori, she joined some of the country's first anarchist women's organisations and established one of the world's first anarchist feminist periodicals: La Voz de la Mujer.
Virginia Bolten | |
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Born | (1870-12-26)26 December 1870 San Luis, Argentina |
Died | 1960(1960-00-00) (aged 89–90) Montevideo, Uruguay |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, activist |
Organization | Argentine Regional Workers' Federation |
Notable work | La Voz de la Mujer (1896–1897) La Nueva Senda (1909–1910) |
Movement | Anarchist feminism |
After years of agitation in Argentina, under the 1902 Law of Residence, she was deported to Uruguay. There she continued her feminist activism, establishing the periodical La Nueva Senda and the radical feminist association Emancipación. Following sustained conflict with socialist feminists, the anarchist feminist movement in Uruguay fell into obscurity. Bolten lived the rest of her life in Montevideo, occasionally speaking at demonstrations, until her death in 1960.