To give a little extra context for the poem “Feminismo” by
Alfredo Arteaga, here’s some of what women were doing in
Argentina at the time. “On May 10, 1910, the date of the
centennial celebration of Argentine independence, the first
Congreso Feminino Internacional convened in Buenos Aires, with
more than two hundred women from Argentina, Uruguay, Peru,
Paraguay, and Chile in attendance. Dr. Cecilia Grierson
presided. Grierson had attendend the Second International
Council of Women (I.C.W.) meeting in London in 1899 and had
returned to Argentina intending to found an Argentine branch of
the I.C.W…. organized by the University Women of Argentina
(Universitarias Argentinas) included among its sponsoring groups
the National Argentine Association against the White Slave
Trade, the Socialist Women’s Center, the Association of Normal
School teachers, the Women’s Union and Labor Group, and the
National League of Women Freethinkers.” - from Latin American
Women and the Search for Social Justice, by Francesca Miller, 1