ARGENTINIAN’S WOMEN

The History in Puerto Madero’s Streets

ALICIA MOREAU DE JUSTO

Alicia Moreau De Justo was born in London the 11th, October of

1885 and diad on 12th May, 1986 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She

was the only sister of three brothers. Her father, Armand Moreau,

was a revolutionary French that participate in the Comuna of Paris in

1871.

In 1890 Alicia and Maria Denanpont (her mother) migrated to Argentina to

live in the district of Floresta in Buenos Aires, and went to high school in

the Escuela Normal N°1.

She founded the Movimiento Feminista de Argentina in 1906 and

with other women like Sara Justo, the Centro Feminista de Argentina

and the Comité Pro-Sufragio Femenino too. She join the Medical

University of the UBA in 1987 and was, with other 5 women, the first

in study medicine in Argentina.

AIMÉ PAINÉ

Aimé Painé was born in Ingeniero Luis A. Huergo, Río Negro, the

23rd, August of 1943 and died on 10th September, 1987 in Asunción,

Paraguay.

She was a Mapuche-Argentinian singer that dedicated to the rescue

and diffusion of the folk music. She was the granddaughter of a

great mapuche chief, the lonco Painé.

Her adoptive parents sent her to study to the María Auxiliadora school

of Mar del Plata. When she was 29 years old (in 1973), she joined to

the Coro Polifónico Nacional and there was where she realized of what

really music meant for her.

She adapted her mapuche’s songs with regionalist tones but always

using sacred Mapuche instruments. Each one of her lyrics tells a

history of the Mapuches-Tehuelches, running the veil to the world

and always spreading the natural philosophy of her «brothers».

AZUCENA VILLAFLOR DE VICENTI

Azucena Villaflor de Vicenti was born in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires

the 7th, April of 1924 and disappeared on 10th, December 1977.

Was an Argentinian social activist, one of the founders of the

Association of Madres of Plaza de Mayo. She dedicated her life to

search the missing people during the State terrorism in Argentina.

She proceed from a working-class family. Her mother , Emma Nitz,

gone birth with just 15 years old; her father, Florentino Villaflor, was

21 years old and worked in a clamp’s factory. Several members of

the family of her father were Peron ‘s militants.

At the age of 16 she worked as a telephonist in a electro domestics

company. There she met Pedro De Vicenti, syndical agent, with

whom she married in 1949 and had four children.

CECILIA GRIERSON

Cecilia Grierson was born the 22th, November 1859 and died on

10th April, 1934 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In Buenos Aires entry to the Normal School N°1, founded by Emma

Nicolay de Caprile, that otorgate the diploma of Maestra de Grado

Primario, receiving it in 1878.

She graduated as a doctor in 1889 and was the first woman doctor in

Argentina, but before that, she founded the Enfermeras del Círculo

Médico Argentino school in 1886.

She started her career in the San Roque Hospital, where she had a

little consulting room and where apart from founding the Primera

Escuela de Enfermeras, she created the Sociedad Argentina de

Primeros Auxilios.

CAROLINA ELENA LORENZINI

Carolina Elena Lorenzini was born in Empalme San Vicente the 15th,

August of 1899, older name of the actual city of Alejandro Korn,

Buenos Aires Province and died in Morón, Buenos Aires, the 26th,

November of 1941. Was an argentinian pilot and sportswoman.

Jose Lorenzini and Luisa Piana’s daughter, was the 7th of eight

brothers and sisters.

She emphasize in horsemanship, rowing, athletics, jump, javelin and

hockey. In 1925 was the athletics champion. Later worked as a typist

and in the Compañía Unión Telefónica.

In 1931 accepted her in the Aero Club Argentino de Seis de

Septiembre.

Finally get the pilot licence as Aviador Civil in 1933, Later she

became in the first woman that get the title of fly iinstructor in South

America and in 1941 get the licence for commercial public.

ENCARNACIÓN EZCURRA

She was born on March 25th, 1795 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and

died on October 20th, 1838 in Buenos Aires. She was a politician

woman and the wife of Juan Manuel de Rosas. She was one of the

most important pioneering women in the management of public

speaking and political discourse, the male prerogative.

Encarnación Ezcurra was one of the important women in

Argentina who played a decisive role in the Revolución de Los

Restauradores, in 1833, and defeated the impositions and

organization of Balcarce’s government.

JULIETA LANTERI

She was born in 1873 in Italy and died on February 23rd, 1932 in

Argentina. She arrived to Argentina when she was 6. She was the

fifth woman in Argentina who graduated as a doctor and founded the

Association Universitaria Argentina.

OLGA COSSETTINI

She was born on August 18th, 1898 in San Jorge, Santa Fe, Argentina

and died on May 27th, 1987 in Rosario. She was a teacher and pedagogue.

She devoted her life to transform the traditional school, which resorted to

punishment as an educational resource and was unrelated to social reality.

The "Institute of Higher Education Teacher No. 28" in the city of Rosario,

bears his name.

VICTORIA OCAMPO

She was born on April 7th, 1890 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and died on

January 27th, 1979. She was a writer, intellectual, essayist and translator.

An cosmopolitan women traveler, she contributed significantly to the

cultural development of her country. Through the mediation of Ortega

and Gasset, the writer published his first important essay in Spain, “De

Francesca Beatrice” (1924).

ROSARIO PEÑALOZA

She was born on December 25th, 1873 in Atiles, La Rioja,

Argentina and died on May 28th, 1950. She was the Eloy Vera

Pereyra and Mercedes Peñaloza y Jauregui daughter’s and was the

granddaughter of Francisco Nicolás Vera y Herrera, who was the

members of a famous and extensive family of landowners.

She was the younger sister of four children's. Her father abandon her

when she was ten years old, and her mother died some years earlier;

she finished the primary school in the Villascuse San Juan sisters

school, where she live in her nearly relative house.

She was an educator and teacher that founded, by example, the

Jardín de infantes of the Escuela Normal of La Rioja.

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