In it, domitila chungara born in 1937, a bolivian indigenous, speaks. In 1961, seventy women organized the housewives committee in siglo xx. The book is a gripping account of her early life in a bolivian mining town, her subsequent radicalization, and her efforts to organize miners and their wives. Datasets available include lcsh, bibframe, lc name authorities, lc classification, marc codes, premis vocabularies, iso language codes, and more. This includes data values and the controlled vocabularies that house them. In 1975 she participated in the international womens.
Domitila in the book says that household work that women do are not being paid, but, due to the low wage of the husband, the women and the children also suffered. Blending firsthand accounts with astute political analysis, domitila describes the hardships endured by bolivias vast working class and her own efforts at. Th ine mines were closed 1986 in resultin, g in massive job loss. After becoming a mining union leader and activist, she was twice jailed and tortured for her activities. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. In 1975 she participated in the international womens year tribune put on by the united nations in mexico. Lo he leido y estoy conforme en cuanto al contenido y tambien. A tribute to brave activist we have lost a tribute to women human rights defenders whrds no longer with us we bring into our collective memory and carry their legacy of struggle as our torch in feminist and womens rights movements. She is best known as the miners wife who led a hunger strike in 1978 that brought down the dictatorship of general hugo banzer, paving the way for. Domitila chungara, a leading female activist from siglo. The linked data service provides access to commonly found standards and vocabularies promulgated by the library of congress. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. She testified about these life experiences before the united nation 1975s.
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