— Catalina Adrianzen —

CATALINA ADRIANZEN, a Peruvian researcher and feminist, founded and led the People's Women's Movement in the central Peruvian Andean city of Huamanga in the 1970s. This movement was tied to the Communist Party of Peru faction that would eventually become known as the "Shining Path, and throughout the 1970s, Adrianzen directed the party's work amongst women.

After the Shining Path launched its guerrilla war, which lasted from 1980 until the mid 1990s, Adrianzen was jailed for supporting the party. She later left Peru and settled into exile in Sweden.

Marxism, Mariategui, and the Women's Movement, 1974

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