Fundadoras y herederas: La Librería de mujeres de Buenos Aires

In 1995 Piera Oria and Carola Caride, founding partners of the Taller Permanente de la Mujer (The Woman’s Permanent Workshop), decided to go ahead with a project that would contribute to the fight against the discrimination of women. Thus was born, in the city of Buenos Aires, The Women’s Bookshop, as one of the 62 bookshops in the world specialised in books and publications written “by” and “for” women. Today The Women’s Bookshop of Buenos Aires has more than ten thousand volumes specialised in the subject of gender, books, journals and publications; it is the most important bookshop in Latin America and the Caribbean. And it is the only one with a virtual base in the Bolivariana Republic of Venezuela, from where it creates a strategic point of communication with bordering countries. The Women’s Bookshop shows the world that we do not need others to give us a name; we have showed the “owners of letters” that we can bring out into the light what they do not want to publish of a woman, managing to achieve much better things.