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On this day, 8 January 1896, the world’s first explicitly anarchist-feminist newspaper, La Voz de la Mujer (Woman’s Voice), was published in Buenos Aires, advocating class struggle, women’s liberation and sexual freedom.
Its first editorial was a fierce condemnation of the situation of women in society:
“fed up as we are with so many tears and so much misery; fed up with the never ending drudgery of children (dear though they are); fed up with asking and begging; of being a plaything for our infamous exploiters or vile husbands, we have decided to raise our voices in the concert of society and demand, yes, demand our bit of pleasure in the banquet of life.”
While the newspaper was welcomed by some of the anarchist movement, some anarchist men were clearly hostile to it. In its second issue, the editors characterised the responses of their critics: “The first number of La Voz de la Mujer appeared and of course, all hell broke loose: ‘Emancipate women? For what?’ ‘Emancipate women? Not on your nelly!’… ‘Let our emancipation come first, and then, when we men are emancipated and free, we shall see about yours.’”
1000-2000 copies of each issue were sold, mostly to women workers in the cities of Buenos Aires, La Plata, and Rosario.
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