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Virginia Bolten

Virginia Bolten
Photograph of Virginia Bolten
Virginia Bolten (c. 1902)
Born(1870-12-26)26 December 1870
San Luis, Argentina
Died1960(1960-00-00) (aged 89–90)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Occupation(s)Journalist, activist
OrganizationArgentine Regional Workers' Federation
Notable workLa Voz de la Mujer (1896–1897)
La Nueva Senda (1909–1910)
MovementAnarchist feminism

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.

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.


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