  The existence of early Latin American feminist ideas was not attended to until years after their inception. The impact of ideas centering on women’s rights to intellectual and educational life, equality, and workers’ rights was not immediate since they were not given importance in their respective contexts. During the feminist movements of the 20th century, many of these figures re-emerged as part of a Latin American feminist theoretical landscape (Gargallo 2004: 81). Early Latin American feminist ideas came to be evaluated through historical memory that gives weight to the claim that Latin American feminist ideas existed prior to the women’s movements of the 1960s and 1970s.