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Titre Feminismo en el país del machismo. Inicios : 1974-1980
Auteur Anilú Elías Paullada
Mir@bel Revue Amerika
Numéro no 16, 2017 Les féminismes en Amérique latine et dans les Caraïbes (XXe-XXIe s) : identités et enjeux
Rubrique / Thématique
Dossier "Les féminismes en Amérique latine et dans les Caraïbes (XXe-XXIe) : identités et enjeux"
 Combats féministes
Résumé anglais On April 24th Mexican Feminists celebrated the tenth anniversary of the landmark legalization of abortion in Mexico City. The courage and resourcefulness of the small group of women who represented the feminist movement in the seventies, at the time of the First International Women's Year in 1975, has been the corner stone of this legalization, as well as that of many other achievements in both laws and everyday life. My article dwells on that courage and resourcefulness that produced remarkable changes in a country that had ignored women's rights and everyday needs. No wonder Octavio Paz, the Nobel Laureate, said at the time: “The Women's Movement is nuclear war; it blows up the core of power; by comparison, other revolutions of humankind are irrelevant” …
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