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The first pictures you can find in:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=womeninmuseum

From one of the most important newspaper of Argentina:

http://www.clarin.com/sociedad/Encuentro-museos-mujeres_0_271772890.html

Or in pdf:

encuentro-de-museos-de-mujeres

Group picture 2010 from the women’s congress 2010 in Buenos Aires/Argentina

2nd picture on the women’s bridge of Porto Madero in Buenos Aires

Mona Holm (women’s museum Norway) and Uli Gutweniger (women’s museum Italy) taked somes impressions of the big party in Buenos Aires from 22th to 25th May. The Bicenternario de la Revolución de Mayo de 1810:

In the afternoon the reports of experiences came from:
Ana Maria Riviero from the Farming and Animal Husbandry Women in Struggle from Rosario Argentina. She was telling about the hard life of farmers in her county and the problem of globalization there, but also from the problems of the women, for example that they can learn to drive tractor but not the car, so that they can not use it to go out for themselves.
Two students of Gender from the Chile University in Santiago explained that they want to start a southamerican network by Internet to continue the discussions of the IInd Feminist Congress.

Last but not least Astrid Schönweger and Bettina Bab were explaining the International Net of Women’s Museums (network womeninmuseum). They used the opportunity to explain the importance of women’s museums for the feminist and gender movement.

The last day of the congress we had 75 (!) Paper readings and audio-visual formats at the different class rooms of the University “J.F. Kennedy” in the Bartolomé Mitre Street in the morning.
The topics were:

• Culture and Art, Women’s Art Production (speakers from: Argentina, USA)
• Education and Gender (speakers from: Chile, Brasil, Argentina, Finlandia, Venezuela, Cuba)
• Women, Religions and Churches (speakers from: Argentina, Spain)
• Labor, Working Women (speakers from: Argentina, Spain)
• Sovereignty of Women on their Bodies. Lesbianism. Birth Control and Abortion (speakers from: Argentina)
• Subjectivity: identifies and culture (speakers from: Argentina)
• State, Public Policies and Gender Relationships (speakers from: Argentina, Spain, Brasil, Venezuela)
• Harmonizing Dance Workshop. Group Communication (speakers from: Argentina)
• Women in the Social Revolution of 20th Century (speakers from: China, Argentina)
• Biographies and Life Stories along the Century (speakers from: Argentina)
• Women`s struggle and Feminism (speakers from: Costa Rica, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Spain)
• Since the Olimpic Movement up to Present Sport Practices (speakers from: Uruguay, Argentina)

In the afternoon it was a great discussion about prostitution and the different way to handle it, but the Highlight was Línea Fundadora from the “Madres de Plaza de Mayo”. She was coming directly from the airport arriving from Italy and was speaking about the past of this movement and the future. She said, that they will never forget what happened and they will not forgive. Until now they are fighting, that military persons, doctors and priests, which were involved in the torture of thousands of argentinians have to pay compensation. They are also trying to help the “victims of the 3rd generation”, the young people, which are 30 years old now and find out the truth of her origin. They are the children of raped and tortured women, who were given away from the military in the time of the dictatorship.
She says also, that the “Madres de Plaza de Mayo” are becoming more and more, because they are fighting for her sons and daugthers, for their grandchildren against the corruption of the State and the globalization.

Alejandra Egido, a well-known actress from Cuba, interprets “Cadena Invisible” Theatrical Monology like her expression engagement with struggles for women’s right and against gender’s violence.

46 Paper readings and audio-visual formats at the different class rooms of the University “J.F. Kennedy” in the Bartolomé Mitre Street we had also in this day in the morning.

The topics were:

• Gender, classes, ethnic groups and ages (speakers from: Mexico, Brasil, Argentina)
• Sexuality pleasures and controls (speakers from: Uruguay, Spain)
• Patriarchy, prostitution an dWomen Tradce Sexuality (speakers from: Argentina)
• Access, production and transmission of Knowledge (speakers from: Argentina, Brasil, USA)
• Culture and Art, Women’s Atristic Production (speakers from: Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica)
• Women and National Liberation Wars (speakers from: USA, Bangladesh, Philippines, Bolivia, Argentina)
• Steps Back and Forwart in Political participation of Women (speakers from: Argentina, Brasil, Chile)

At 12.30 a.m. the organizing committee and special guests, also the delegations of the women’s museums were invited to the City Hall of Buenos Aires. María José Lubertino, Diputata de la Ciudad (congress woman of the city) was proud to welcome us. There was introducing Graciela Tejero Coni as the director of women’s museum Argentina and Marysa Navarro, historians’ woman and biographer from Evita Péron.