WOMEN IN THE ARENA
<N.Z Press Assn —Copyright MADRID. August 12. Women’s Liberation ha (hoisted its flag on the strong est bastion of male chauvinism in Spain: bullfighting Government officials say that (a decree will be published in Ithe official State bulletin ■opening Spain’s arenas tn (women bullfighters — or torleras, as Spaniards prefer to ‘call them. The decree marks final vic(tory in a three-year court (fight by a platinum blond. Miss Angela Hernandez, aged (27, to end discrimination against women in bullfighting land to win her the right to (wear a cape and kill bulls for money. [ “I’m overjoyed, and I’m so excited that I can’t even eat,” (she said yesterday. ( Angelita, as she wants to be known in the ring, is a protege of the great Manuel (Benitez, whose professional (name is El Cordobes. She has (fought bulls in Latin America, where women are allowed in [the arenas, and carries the scars of three gorings on het : shapely body. i The Government decree amends the police ordinance governing bullfighting, which, until now. has barred women except when they appeared on horseback in a watered down version of the nation-i sport.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33611, 13 August 1974, Page 13
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