Dora Madueño and the first Peruvian women mayors in 1945: Historical notes on gender and citizenship

In 1945, after Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero came to power, four women served as mayors for the first time, elected within the transitional municipal Councils established in regional electoral assemblies according to the Law N.° 10233. Dora Madueño Mayor of Huancane, Angelica Zambrano Mayor of Uruba...

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Autor: Bedoya, Carlos
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Perú
Institución:Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Repositorio:Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe:article/16999
Acceso en línea:https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/discursos/article/view/16999
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:First Peruvian women mayors
Peruvian political history
Women history
History of the municipalities
transitional municipal council
Primeras alcaldesas peruanas
historia política del Perú
historia de las mujeres
historia de las municipalidades
juntas municipales transitorias
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Sumario:In 1945, after Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero came to power, four women served as mayors for the first time, elected within the transitional municipal Councils established in regional electoral assemblies according to the Law N.° 10233. Dora Madueño Mayor of Huancane, Angelica Zambrano Mayor of Urubamba, Eva Morales Deputy Mayor of Arequipa, and Susana Leon Deputy Mayor of Matucana. All elected between October and November of that year, but have been erased of the historical memory. The article provides the first register of these facts, as well as offering an examination of the political, legal and gender aspects that made possible those experiences. In particular, in the case of Dora Madueño (1916-2013), the first woman mayor in Peru.