Elena Arnedo Soriano (25 November 1941 – 7 September 2015) was a Spanish gynecologist, writer, and women's rights activist.
Biography
The daughter of feminist writer
Elena Soriano, Arnedo was born in
Madrid
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. Arnedo was the cousin of
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo.
She married economist
Miguel Boyer
Miguel Boyer (5 February 1939 – 29 September 2014) was a Spanish economist and politician, who served as minister of economy, treasury and commerce from 1982 to 1985.
Early life and education
Boyer was born in St. Jean de Luz, France, on 5 F ...
in 1964.
With him, she had two children, Laura and Miguel. She subsequently studied
gynecology and breast pathology at
University of Strasbourg
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The French university traces its history to the ea ...
.
She divorced Boyer in 1985 and remarried academic Fernando Terán Troyano. A pioneer in reproductive rights, she wrote several books, including ''Testamento materno'', which dealt with the ravages of drugs in connection with the death of a son. She was a critic of a drug industry that reaps great benefits selling an illusion of eternal youth. She also edited the Spanish version of the reference book ''El gran libro de la mujer'' (The Big Book of Women), about various things related to women.
[ In 2003, she was elected a city councillor for Madrid on the ]Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
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ticket. She resigned in 2007.[
Arnedo had cancer for eight years before dying on 7 September 2015 at the age of 74.][
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Work
* 2009, ''Women and socialism'' in the book ''The feminist movement in Spain in the 70s,'' Ed. Cátedra
* 2003, ''the bite of the horsefly. Women in the face of age changes.'' Ed Aguilar
* 2000, the ''feminine donjuanismo.'' Ed. Atalaya
* 1997, ''The great book of the woman.'' Ed. Today's Topics
References
External links
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1941 births
2015 deaths
Spanish women writers
Writers from Madrid
Spanish activists
Spanish women activists
University of Strasbourg alumni
Politicians from Madrid
Deaths from cancer in Spain
Spanish gynaecologists
Madrid city councillors (2003–2007)
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