Solange Gorostiaga de Barrera, first female councilor of Río Cuarto: initial notes on a radical opposition voice in a Peronist municipal government (Córdoba, 1951-1955)
In 1951, a singular event occurred, and perhaps unexpected in the political calculations of the time: in the city of Río Cuarto, a woman was elected, for the first time, as a member of the Deliberative Council. And she is not a Peronist. Nor is she an intransigent militant, a hegemonic faction in th...
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://cuadernosdelciesal.unr.edu.ar/index.php/inicio/article/view/157 |
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| Sumario: | In 1951, a singular event occurred, and perhaps unexpected in the political calculations of the time: in the city of Río Cuarto, a woman was elected, for the first time, as a member of the Deliberative Council. And she is not a Peronist. Nor is she an intransigent militant, a hegemonic faction in the UCR of Córdoba. It is Solange Gorostiaga de Barrera, a woman enrolled in “alvearismo”, daughter of a baker, who has to go down in history as the first democratically elected mayor of Rio Cuarto, and in the first elections in which the Argentine women. What are the keys that lead the radical activist to occupy a seat in a local deliberative body? What role do you assume, as part of the minority bloc? This article aims to advance this first female experience of participation in communal political life, focusing on the performance of Solange Gorostiaga, as the expression of an opposition voice within the framework of a municipal government under the hegemony of triumphant Peronism in the national, provincial and local levels. |
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