‘No God, No Boss, No Husband!’ Anarchist Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Argentina

Abstract

This chapter examines anarchist feminism, a tendency within the nineteenth-century anarchist movement in Argentina, through a study of the content and social context of the newspaper La Voz de la Mujer.1 There are two main reasons for examining this phenomenon. The first is one familiar to feminist historians — that of making visible what, in Sheila Rowbotham’s phrase (1973), has been ‘hidden from history’.The full history of anarchist feminism in Argentina has never been written; nor has it been acknowledged as a distinct tendency within the anarchist movement or the Latin American women’s movements. The major historians of Argentine anarchism — Max Nettlau, Diego Abad de Santillán and Iaâcov Oved2 — do little more than note the existence of La Voz, leaving its content unanalysed and its significance unexplored.KeywordsImmigrant WomanSexual ExploitationInternational PerspectiveImmigrant CommunityWoman WorkerThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.