Accion para la Liberacion de la Mujer Peruana (ALIMUPER, Action for the Liberation of Peruvian Women) was a Peruvian feminist organization active in the 1970s.
History
editALIMUPER was founded in 1973,[1] by Ana Maria Portugal. Its members were mostly from the educated middle classes. The organization shared a small office with Creatividad y Cambio, a Catholic feminist organization founded by two Maryknoll Sisters, Rosa Dominga and Timotea.[2]
ALIMUPER organized demonstrations against Mother's Day being commercialized, and for the right to contraception and abortion. In 1978 it organized a march supporting the Nicaraguan Revolution. ALIMUPER called a march for abortion rights on International Women's Day 1979.[2] Few women attended, and some who did voiced uncertainty whether it was appropriate to publicly demonstrate on the issue in a country "torn between hunger and misery".[3] Coordinating with a London-based international movement that year, it also demanded the government sponsor programmes for abused women.[2]
In 1980 ALIMUPER and Creatividad y Cambio moved to a new building, Casa de la Mujer, which they shared with CMP Flora Tristán. ALIMUPER demonstrated against Miss Universe 1982, which was held in Lima.[2] However, it disbanded soon afterwards, facing some internal problems and aware that consciousness-raising groups were losing ground to activist centres working with a wider social 'base'.[4]
References
edit- ^ Lissell Quiroz-Pérez (2017). "Del centro a las márgenes. Los feminismos de Perú y México de los 70 a la actualidad". Amerika. 16.
- ^ a b c d Nancy E. Gallagher (Spring 1995). "Compañeras in the Peruvian Feminist Movement: A Conversation with Rosa Dominga and Timotea, Maryknoll Sisters". Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. 11 (1): 96. JSTOR 25002245.
- ^ Cecilia Olea Mauleó (2007). "La trayectoria del movimiento feminista en el Peru". labrys, études féministes/ estudos feministas. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ Leanne J. Dyck (1991). The liberation of women and the liberation theology movement in Peru (PDF) (MA thesis). University of Manitoba.