Olga Poblete de Espinosa (May 21, 1908 – July 17, 1999) was a long-time women's rights activist and feminist in Chile. She was a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962. Poblete and Elena Caffarena were later honored as "founding matriarchs" by the Movimiento Pro-Emancipación de las Mujeres de Chile of '83 or MEMCH '83. This relates to them being important members of the original MEMCH that existed in the 1940s. Along with women's rights, she was concerned with individual development and welfare issues.
References
- AP via the Meriden Record of May 1, 1962
- Americas by Peter Winn, pgs 348 and 350
- Pernet, Corinne A. (January 1994). Peace in the World and Democracy at Home: The Chilean Women's Movement in the 1940s, in David Rock (ed.), Latin America in the 1940s: War and Postwar Transitions. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, p. 166–188. ISBN 9780520084179.
- "Corinne A. Pernet, "El Movimiento Pro Emancipación de la Mujer Chilena en provincia: Mobilización femenina y sus obstaculos, 1935–1942," in Lorena Godoy, Elizabeth Hutchison, Karin Rosemblatt and Soledad Zarate (eds.), Disciplina y desacato: Construcción de identidad en Chile, siglos XIX y XX, Santiago, SUR/CEDEM, 1995, p. 287–329". Retrieved 2016-03-10.
- "Corinne A. Pernet, "El MEMCh hizo Historia", Santiago: Fundación Biblioteca y Archivo de la Mujer, 1997". Retrieved 2016-03-10.
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