Partido Cívico Femenino Explained

Partido Cívico Femenino, was a women's organization in Chile, founded in 1922.^[1]

It was founded by a group of women including Estela La Rivera de Sanhueza, Elvira de Vergara, Berta Recabarren and Graciela Lacoste Navarro.^[2]

It was the first political feminist party in the history of Chile. It was a secular organization and campaigned for women's rights and emancipation, women's social, financial and educational rights, coeducation, secularism and women's suffrage.

It was dissolved in 1939.

It published the feminist newspaper Acción Femenina as its media organ in 1922–1939.

Notes and References

1. Este artículo o parte de él es una obra derivada de «Historia Política» por la Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile, disponible bajo la licencia Creative Commons Atribución 3.0 Chile.
2. Web site: 10 November 2014. Pardo, Adolfo. 1 May 2001. Historia de la mujer en Chile. La conquista de sus derechos políticos en el siglo XX (1900-1952). Critica.cl.