Luisa Gómez de la Torre Paez
{{Short description|Ecuadorian feminist, educator, and activist}}
{{family name hatnote|de la Torre|Paez|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox person
|name=Luisa Gómez de la Torre Paez
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|birth_name=María Luisa Gómez de la Torre Páez
|birth_place=Quito
|birth_date=May 28, 1887
|death_place=Quito
|death_date=1976
|nationality={{flag|Ecuador}}
|citizenship=Ecuadorian
|party=Communist Party of Ecuador
|mother=Francisca Páez Rodríguez
|father=Joaquín Gómez de la Torre Álvarez
|occupation=Feminist, educator
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María Luisa Gómez de la Torre Páez (b. 28 May 1887 – d. 1976) was an Ecuadorian feminist, educator, and activist. She was a pioneer in the struggle for the rights of the indigenous peoples and peasants in Ecuador.{{sfn|Goetschel|2007|p=328}}{{sfn|Dictionary of Ecuadorian Biography}}{{sfn|Becker|2003|p=348}}{{sfn|Radcliffe|2009|p=437}} She was the first woman to serve as a teacher for boys in Quito.{{sfn|Becker|Tutilo|2009|p=262}}
Biography
Luisa Gómez de la Torre Paez was born on 28 May 1887 to parents Joaquín Gómez de la Torre Álvarez and Francisca Páez Rodríguez. In 1944, she participated in the creation of the first indigenous peoples' rights organization, called the Ecuadorian Federation of Indians (FEI).{{sfn|Becker|Tutilo|2009|p=262}} She also worked with the Indigenista Dolores Cacuango to found bilingual (Quecha and Spanish) schools to bring literacy to the indigenous peasantry in the countryside.{{sfn|Tuaza C.|2010|p=562}}{{sfn|Clark|2012|p=320}}
In the political arena, de la Torre is considered one of the pioneers of the political left in Ecuador along with Guayaquileñas Aurora López, Isabel Herrera, Ana Moreno and Quiteñas Nela Martínez and Laura Almeida.{{sfn|Śniadecka-Kotarska|2006|p=202}} With these connections, she participated in the 1926 founding of the Socialist Party of Ecuador.{{sfn|Goetschel|2006|p=Estudio introductorio}} Four years later, de la Torre formed the Club of Professors of Mejía. In 1937 she, with other colleagues, founded the Syndicate of Professors of Mejía and in 1946 expanded this into the Ecuadorian Teachers' Union.{{sfn|Dictionary of Ecuadorian Biography}}
De la Torre was one of the founding members (with Virginia Larenas, Raquel Verdesoto, Matilde Hidalgo and Nela Martínez) of the Ecuadorian Women's Alliance in 1938.{{sfn|Goetschel|2007|p=328}}
Citations
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References
Spanish books
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- {{cite book|last1=Becker|first1=Marc|last2=Tutilo|first2=Silvia|title=Historia agraria y social de Cayambe|publisher=Flacso-Sede Ecuador|year=2009|isbn=978-997-867-214-3}}
- {{cite book|last=Burbano de Lara|first=Felipe|editor-last=Tuaza C.|editor-first=Luis Alberto|title=Transiciones y rupturas: El Ecuador en la segunda mitad del siglo XX|chapter=Concepciones del Estado y demandas de las organizaciones campesinas e indígenas (1940-1960)|year=2010|publisher=Flacso-Sede Ecuador|isbn=978-997-867-263-1|ref={{sfnref|Tuaza C.|2010}}}}
- {{cite book|last=Goetschel|first=Ana María|editor-last=Goetschel|editor-first=Ana María|title=Orígenes del feminismo en el Ecuador. Antología|year=2006|chapter=Estudio introductorio|publisher=Flacso-Ecuador, CONAMU, MDMQ, UNIFEM|isbn=9978-67-115-3}}
- {{cite book|last=Goetschel|first=Ana María|title=Educación de las mujeres, maestras y esferas públicas: Quito en la primera mitad del siglo XX|year=2007|publisher=Editorial Abya Yala|isbn=978-994-267-136-3}}
- {{cite book|last=Śniadecka-Kotarska|first=Magdalena|title=Ser mujer en Ecuador|year=2006|publisher=University of Warsaw, Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos (CESLA)|ref={{sfnref|Śniadecka-Kotarska|2006}}}}
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English sources
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- {{cite book|last=Clark|first=A. Kim|title=Gender, State, and Medicine in Highland Ecuador|year=2012|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press|isbn=978-082-297-805-3}}
- {{cite book|last=Peloso|first=Vincent C.|editor-last=Becker|editor-first=Marc|chapter=Race, Gender, and Protest in Ecuador|title=Work, Protest, and Identity in Twentieth-century Latin America|year=2003|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-084-202-927-8|ref={{sfnref|Becker|2003}}|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/workprotestident0000unse}}
- {{cite book|last1=de la Torre|first1=Carlos|last2=Striffler|first2=Steve|editor-last=Radcliffe|editor-first=Sarah A.|title=The Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Politics|chapter=Women's Movements in 20th-Century Ecuador|year=2009|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-082-239-011-4|ref={{sfnref|Radcliffe|2009}}}}
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External links
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- {{cite web|last=Pérez|first=Rodolfo|title=LUISA GOMEZ DE LA TORRE PAEZ|publisher=Dictionary of Ecuadorian Biographies|website=diccionariobiograficoecuador.com|url=http://www.diccionariobiograficoecuador.com/tomos/tomo16/g6.htm|accessdate=23 August 2013|language=es|ref={{sfnref|Dictionary of Ecuadorian Biography}}}}
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Category:Ecuadorian women educators