Cotidiano Mujer (Everyday Woman) was a Uruguayan magazine published by the feminist collective of the same name from 1985 to 2013. Its objectives were to discuss human rights and women's rights, and to give visibility to aspects of the daily lives of women.
History
The magazine Cotidiano Mujer was founded by Lilián Celiberti, Elena Fonseca [es], and Anna María Colucci at the end of the civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay, when Celiberti was released from prison.[1][2] At that time there was a political and social effervescence linked to the democratic transition which facilitated the public visibility of a second feminist wave that was emerging in the country. This new feminist agenda sought to advance beyond formal civil and political rights, to examine the problems of everyday life, such as the distribution of work and power within families.[3]
In this environment, the magazine's first issue was published in September 1985, financed with an economic contribution by Colucci.[4]
The legalization of abortion in Uruguay was one of the main objectives of the organization and of the magazine, which began a campaign to this end in 1989.[5][6] Another important focus of the magazine was questioning the image of women in traditional media. In this area, in 1997, with the support of UNICEF, a media monitoring program was carried out that produced more than 25,000 record cards on issues related to women and children.[7]
In 2016, the organization made the first issues available under a Creative Commons license, corresponding to its first period, published monthly between September 1985 (No. 1) and November 1989 (No. 33).[8] In 2018, it digitized and made available copies from the second to the fourth periods. Added to issues from of the fifth period, which were already available, it finished digitizing the entire archive of the magazine for free access.
^Suárez Val, Helena (July 2017). Feminismo, podcasting y memoria [Feminism, Podcasting, and Memory] (in Spanish). 4th Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Social Sciences. p. 3. Retrieved 3 September 2022 – via ResearchGate.
^Schvarz, Sergio (6 October 2018). "Historia del Feminismo en Uruguay" [History of Feminism in Uruguay]. Crítica.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 September 2022.