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Olga Poblete

Olga Poblete

Women's rights activist

Olga Poblete de Espinosa (May 21, 1908 – July 17, 1999) was a long-time women's rights activist and feminist in Chile. She was a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962.[1] Poblete and Elena Caffarena were later honored as "founding matriarchs" by the Movimiento Pro-Emancipación de las Mujeres de Chile of '83 or MEMCH '83.[2] This relates to them being important members of the original MEMCH that existed in the 1940s. Along with women's rights, she was concerned with individual development and welfare issues.[3][4][5]

References

  1. [1]
    AP via the Meriden Record of May 1, 1962
  2. [2]
    Americas by Peter Winn, pgs 348 and 350
  3. [3]
    Pernet, Corinne A. (January 1994). Peace in the World and Democracy at Home: The Chilean Women's Movement in the 1940s, in David Rock (ed.), Latin America in the 1940s: War and Postwar Transitions. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, p. 166–188. ISBN 9780520084179.
  4. [4]
    "Corinne A. Pernet, "El Movimiento Pro Emancipación de la Mujer Chilena en provincia: Mobilización femenina y sus obstaculos, 1935–1942," in Lorena Godoy, Elizabeth Hutchison, Karin Rosemblatt and Soledad Zarate (eds.), Disciplina y desacato: Construcción de identidad en Chile, siglos XIX y XX, Santiago, SUR/CEDEM, 1995, p. 287–329". Retrieved 2016-03-10.
  5. [5]
    "Corinne A. Pernet, "El MEMCh hizo Historia", Santiago: Fundación Biblioteca y Archivo de la Mujer, 1997". Retrieved 2016-03-10.


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