Blog is profiling Wonder Women who have made history—and those who are making history right now. The War of the Pacific began two years after her birth and lasted until Later, in , her sister died while her family was attempting to flee the Chileans during the Peruvian Civil War. That same year, her father was exiled from Peru. She learned French, German and Quechua and received the best education for a woman of her era.
The combination of her traditional yet liberal education and broad travels with her father inspired her feminist views, which she incorporated into her work in traditional Peru in the s.
Her feminist activism was a leading factor in gaining the vote for Peruvian women in the municipal elections. Women should be able to fight and provide and gain knowledge so they can provide for the family as well.
She believed the cost of living needed to be lowered for the working-class, so she organized a feminist strike for food in April of Five years later, she created the organization Peruvian Feminism. In the drama, the lead character, a Parisian widow, discovers she has a life-threatening sexually transmitted illness received from her deceased husband. Even after treatment, she cannot have sex or else she will die.
During treatment, she falls in love with her gynecologist, and convinces him to have sex with her, leading to her death. Her death is dramatic but creates the necessary shock by depicting a woman in her time acting on her sexual desires. Both plots feature rich Parisian widows who find out their deceased husbands had affairs with other women and begin an erotic journey to rediscover themselves.
