So many limitations are imposed on women’s freedom to travel together or alone that any advice or warning seems merely to reinforce the situation. However, machismo is well ingrained in the Peruvian male mentality, particularly in the towns, and female foreigners are almost universally seen as liberated and therefore sexually available. Having said that, in […]
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HARASSMENT AND SAFETY
On the whole, the situations you’ll encounter are more annoying than dangerous, with frequent comments such as que guapa (“how pretty”), intrusive and prolonged stares, plus whistling and hissing in the cities . Worse still are the occasional rude comments and groping, particularly in crowded situations such as on buses or trains. Blonde and fair-skinned […]
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Though a growing force, feminism is still relatively new to Peru, and essentially urban. However, there are two major feminist groups: Flora Tristan, Avenida Arenales 601, Lima, which is allied to the United Left and whose basic tenet is “first socialism, then the feminist revolution”; and the less radical Peru Mujer, though neither of these […]
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