— Catalina Arianzen —

CATALINA ARIANZEN, 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, Arianzen helped direct the party's work amongst women.

After the Shining Path launched its guerrilla war, which lasted from 1980 until the mid 1990s, Arianzen is said to have directed armed cells in the region of Cuzco. In 1982 she was arrested in connection to an incendiary attack on an agricultural cooperative.

She later left Peru and settled into exile in Sweden, where she has worked at university.

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

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