Word: aristolina
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...centers and drugs, but that was about as far as they cared to go. Delegate Cilésia Furtado, 38, sighed that she was "turned off by most Women's Libbers in the U.S." It seems, she complained, "that women there want to stop being women." Conference Organizer Aristolina Queirós de Almeida was scarcely more militant. "Our fight isn't against men," she said at one point. "On the contrary, what we want is to unite more and more with them. We think in terms of participation, not emancipation...
Informed by a Latin tradition of female domesticity that has annealed over several generations, the women simply have little inclination to get involved in politics, sexual or otherwise. That even goes for Miguel Pereira. "I'm the mayor of the city," Aristolina de Almeida says, "but at home the head of the family is still my husband...
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