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Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. [1] The group formed in New York City in 1985, born out of a picket against the Museum of Modern Art the previous year.
The Feminine Brigades of Saint Joan of Arc (Spanish: Las Brigadas Femeninas de Santa Juana de Arco) also known as Guerrilleras de Cristo (women-soldiers of Christ) was a secret military society for women founded on June 21, 1927 at the Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan, in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico.
1808: Juana Galán was a guerrilla fighter of the Peninsular War (1808–1814). [16] 1808: Manuela Malasaña participated in The 2nd of May Uprising in Madrid (1808) against the troops of Napoleon I of France during the Peninsular War. [16] 1808: Agustina de Aragón defended Spain during the Spanish War of Independence. [17]
A common feature of all the different waves of Spanish feminism is they were based on a realization that the reality of biological sex differences should not lead to social marginalization and exclusion from certain parts of life. Spanish feminism continually challenged in this period the hierarchy of differences between men and women. [1]
In 1763, Gabriela Silang led a revolution against the Spanish to establish an independent Ilocos, which was started by her husband, Diego Silang in after her husband was assassinated in 1763. In 1778, Baltazara Chuiza leads a rebellion against the Spanish in Ecuador. [22] In 1780, Huillac Ñusca of the Kolla tribe rebels against the Spanish in ...
The Maquis (; Basque: Maki; also spelled maqui) [2] [3] were Spanish guerrillas who waged an irregular warfare against the Francoist dictatorship within Spain following the Republican defeat in the Spanish Civil War until the early 1960s, carrying out sabotage, robberies (to help fund guerrilla activity) and assassinations of alleged Francoists as well as contributing to the fight against Nazi ...
Francisco Espoz y Mina Ilundáin [note 1] (1781–1836) was a Spanish guerrilla leader and general.. Espoz y Mina is considered the most important guerrillero of the Peninsular War [1] for three reasons: by positioning himself so close to the French forces and their lines of communication he was able to harass them continuously; the direct outcome of his field of operations, which limited the ...
Lucio Cabañas Barrientos (Latin American Spanish: [ˈlusjo kaˈβaɲas βaˈrjentos]; December 12, 1938 – December 2, 1974) was a Mexican social leader, schoolteacher, union leader, and guerrilla leader who founded the social and political movement Party of the Poor in 1967.