Protagonists between local and transnational visibility: the anarchist cholas of La Paz, Bolivia, 1927-1931.

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Anarchism, Women, Transnationalism

Abstract

Little is known about the history of the Sindicato Femenino de oficios Varios of La Paz, Bolivia, in the period before the Chaco War. thus, in this article we aim to highlight the protagonism of the anarchist cholas between 1927 and 1931 based on the analysis of a corpus which includes local commercial and Rioplatense anarchist press. We will show that the local and transnational visibility of women in that press responded to different but analogous motives, related to the construction or orientation of oligarchic feminism and anarchist “counter-feminism” through a mirror that reflected an “other” that was difficult to know.

Author Biography

Ivanna Margarucci, Universidad Nacional de San Martín

Ph.D. in History from the University of Buenos Aires (2021). Researcher at the Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas of the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (CeDInCI/UNSAM) and doctoral fellow of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (ConICEt) of Argentina. She is a specialist in social, political and intellectual history of Latin America, particularly Bolivia and the Andean region. His research interests include the labor movement, the indigenous-peasant movement and the left, especially anarchism. He has published articles in academic journals in Latin America and Europe, as well as book chapters. Her most recent publication is: "A Fatherland worth living in': Anarchism, citizenship and nation in Bolivia, 1900-1941", Nations and Nationalism, [Early View], 2022, pp. 1-18. She is the author of the book Anarquismos en confluencia. Anarquismos en confluencia. Chile y Bolivia en la primera mitad del siglo XX (2018) co-authored with Eduardo Godoy Sepúlveda.

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Published

2024-02-09

Issue

No. 106 (2023)

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Dossier