List of female bullfighters

This is a list of female bullfighters who are notably participating, or have in the past participated, in bullfighting. Women in bullfighting has been traced to the sport's earliest renditions in Spain, namely during the late-1700s and early-1800s. Spanish painter Francisco Goya first depicted a female bullfighter in his etching work La Pajuelera, which featured a woman sparring with a bull on horseback in 1816.[1] During the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, women were forced to exile in other Spanish-speaking countries and the United States in order to continue bullfighting.[2] In Spain – along with many countries in Latin America and Asia – women were banned from the sport. They were banned from bullfighting in Spain until 1974,[3] and in Japan until 2018.[4]

Women had difficulty completing their alternativa, a ceremony where a bullfighter becomes a matador, during the 1980s due to the social pressures of the decade.[5] Spanish bullfighter Cristina Sánchez was the first woman matador in Europe, gaining full status in 1996.[6]

## Female bullfighters

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* Joaquina Ariza Genir (La Algabeña)
* Maribel Atienzar
* Isabel Beniers
* Teresa Bolsi
* Conchita Cintrón[7]
* Nicolasa Escamilla (La Pajuelera)
* Mari Fortes Roca[8]
* Angela Hernandez
* Elena Gayral
* Blanca Inés Macías Monsalve (Rosarillo de Colombia)

### American Female bullfighters

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* Bette Ford[9]
* Patricia McCormick[10]

### French Female bullfighters

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* Léa Vicens [es; fr]
* Marie Sara[11]

### Mexican Female bullfighters

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* Lupita López[12]
* Hilda Tenorio[13]

### Portuguese Female bullfighters

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* Sónia Matias
* Isabel Ramos
* Ana Batista
* Ana Rita
* Joana Andrade

### Spanish Female bullfighters

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* Olga Casado
* Juana Cruz
* Martina García
* Alicia Tomás Jiménez (1940-2021)[14]
* Conchi Ríos
* Cristina Sánchez

### Swedish Female bullfighters

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* Agnes von Rosen

## Gallery

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* Nicolasa Escamilla

* Teresa Bolsi

* Conchita Cintrón

* Cristina Sánchez

* Hilda Tenorio

## See also

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* Bullfighting
* List of male bullfighters
* History of women in Spanish-style bullfighting

## References

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1. ^ Haynes |, Rachel (2018-08-10). "10 August 1974: Spain lifts ban on women bullfighters". surinenglish.com. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
2. ^ Haynes |, Rachel (2018-08-10). "10 August 1974: Spain lifts ban on women bullfighters". surinenglish.com. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
3. ^ Haynes |, Rachel (2018-08-10). "10 August 1974: Spain lifts ban on women bullfighters". surinenglish.com. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
4. ^ "Women allowed into Japan bullfight ring". BBC News. 2018-05-05. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
5. ^ "Spain's Female Bullfighters Fight Men, Too". The New York Times. 1983-10-02. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
6. ^ Glauber, Bill (July 1, 1996). "A woman against the bulls Matador: Cristina Sanchez, the first woman accorded full matador status in Europe, takes on bulls and tradition in the macho culture of the Spanish bullring". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
7. ^ "Conchita Cintrón, One of First Female Bullfighters, Dies at 86". The New York Times. Associated Press. 2009-02-19. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
8. ^ Mari Fortes: «Algunos se negaban a torear conmigo» (in Spanish)
9. ^ "Raquel Martinez, Female Bullfighter". San Diego Free Press. 2015-12-30. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
10. ^ Mealer, Bryan (2013-04-13). "Patricia McCormick, Bullfighter Who Defied Convention, Is Dead at 83". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
11. ^ Chrisafis, Angelique (2017-06-16). "French bullfighter locks horns with far right in legislative vote". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
12. ^ Burnett, John (17 March 2011). "For Matadora, Bullfighting Is Her 'Absolute Truth'". NPR. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
13. ^ Arévalo, Carlos Eduardo (March 2020). "Hilda Tenorio y la inclusión en la tauromaquia". El Economista. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
14. ^ "Alicia Tomas". tauroarte.com. Retrieved 2024-12-11.

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