SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Virginia Bolten

1876 - 1960

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Virginia Bolten (1870–1960) was an Argentine journalist and anarchist feminist activist. An anarchist agitator from an early age, she became a leading figure among the working women of Rosario, organising for the Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA) and leading the first women's strike in the country's history. After being recruited into the anarchist movement in Buenos Aires by the Italian anarchist Pietro Gori, she joined some of the country's first anarchist women's organisations and established one of the world's first anarchist feminist periodicals: La Voz de la Mujer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Virginia Bolten has received more than 40,221 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Virginia Bolten is the 501st most popular social activist (down from 456th in 2019), the 435th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 434th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Argentinean Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Virginia Bolten ranks 501 out of 840. Before her are Malalai of Maiwand, Pretty Boy Floyd, Stokely Carmichael, Dorothea Dix, Bagha Jatin, and David Reimer. After her are Gertrud Adelborg, Mari Beyleryan, Denis Goldberg, Nadia Murad, Daniel De Leon, and Efua Dorkenoo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Virginia Bolten ranks 161. Before her are Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, Paul Rivet, Alexandre Tuffère, Pyotr Konchalovsky, G. M. Trevelyan, and Albert Bruce Jackson. After her are Jacoba van Heemskerck, Ellsworth Huntington, Nellie Tayloe Ross, Gaston Peltier, Havergal Brian, and H. B. Warner. Among people deceased in 1960, Virginia Bolten ranks 172. Before her are Walter Catlett, György Piller, Arthur Benjamin, Gregorio Marañón, Charles Delporte, and Agustín Sancho. After her are Georgi Kyoseivanov, Lya Mara, René Maran, Ángel Cabrera, Vicente Piera, and Vladimir Dimitrov.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Virginia Bolten ranks 435 out of 1,154. Before her are Fernando Gago (1986), Marcos Rojo (1990), Lola Mora (1866), Kily González (1974), Alberto Galateo (1911), and José María Minella (1909). After her are Adolfo Schwelm Cruz (1923), Roque Olsen (1925), Miguel Ángel Santoro (1942), Ricardo Villa (1952), Eliseo Prado (1929), and Victor Ferreyra (1964).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Argentina

Among social activists born in Argentina, Virginia Bolten ranks 5. Before her are Che Guevara (1928), Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (1931), Azucena Villaflor (1924), and Estela de Carlotto (1930). After her are Hebe de Bonafini (1928), Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane (1867), Maria Verónica Reina (1964), and Susana Trimarco (1954).

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