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Mara Jess Alvarado Rivera was a Peruvian rebel feminist, educator, journalist, writer and social activist. She was noted by the National Council of Women of Peru in 1969 as the first modern champion of womens rights in Peru.
Alvarado Rivera was born in Chincha Alta onMay 1878. Her parents were Cayetano Arciniega Alvarado, owner and administrator of the estate Chacrabajo, and Jesus Rivera Martinez they were both natives of Chincha Province. She was the tenth of thirteen children. Due to the War of the Pacific, her family was forced to sell their property and settle in Lima. As was customary for that time her education went only until the primary school. However, during that short time, she learned to read and write well. Her subsequent studies were selftaught. She then attended a private high school run by Elvira Guardia y Garcia , after which she became a teacher. Disturbed by the antiquated educational system, she studied sociology on her own and was instrumental in introducing advanced methods of vocational education, euthanasia, the health and the matrimonial care of school children and the control of sexually transmitted diseases. She also believed in womens role as a mother.
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