Poblete Poblete de Espinoza, Olga (1908–)

Olga Poblete Poblete de Espinoza (b. 21 May 1908), Chilean women's rights and peace activist and historian. Poblete received her degree in history, geography, and civic education from the Instituto Pedagógico de la Universidad de Chile in 1929 and held the chair in contemporary history at the Universidad de Chile in 1952–1970. She was active in national and international summer school programs, including the one at Columbia Teachers College, New York, in 1945. Poblete traveled widely on behalf of her work in the international peace movement, cofounded the Movimiento Chileno de Partidarios de la Paz (1949), served as Latin American representative to the World Council of Peace from 1960 to 1966, and was president of the Chilean Peace Committee until 1973. In 1962 she received the Lenin Peace Prize and in 1988 was awarded the Eugenie Cotton Medal from the International Democratic Federation of Women. A member of the Movimiento Pro-Emancipación de la Mujer Chilena (MEMCH), Poblete took over leadership of that organization in 1947. In the early 1980s she joined the efforts of MEMCH83 to coordinate protest against the Pinochet regime.

See alsoFeminism and Feminist Organizations .

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Olga Poblete Poblete De Espinoza, Historia contemporanea, 1914–1964 (1968), La guerra, la paz, y los pueblos (1990), and Una mujer: Elena Caffarena (1993).

Corinne Antezana-Pernet, "Peace in the World and Democracy at Home: The Chilean Women's Movement in the 1940s," in Latin America in the 1940s: War and Post-War Transitions, edited by David Rock (1994).

Additional Bibliography

Aliaga Rojas, Fernando. "Aporte pastoral de la mujer en el siglo XIX." Anuario de la Historia de la Iglesia en Chile, 13 (1995): 67-78.

Caffarena de Jiles, Elena. Un capítulo en la historia del feminismo: Las sufragistas inglesas. Santiago: Ediciones del Memch, 1952.

Klimpel Alvarado, Felícitas. La mujer chilena: El aporte femenino al progreso de Chile, 1910–1960. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Andrés Bello, 1962.

Poblete de Espinoza, Olga. Una mujer, Elena Caffarena. Santiago de Chile: Cuarto Propio, 1993.

Poblete de Espinoza, Olga y otros. La Enseñanza Moderna de las Ciencias Sociales. Chile: Editorial Universitaria, 1971.

          Corinne Antezana-Pernet Francesca Miller