Ana Victoria Jiménez

Ana Victoria Jiménez (August 31, 1941 – November 23, 2025) was a Mexican photographer, editor and feminist activist, who actively participated in the second wave of Mexico's feminist movement. She was best known for her archive, Archivo Ana Victoria Jiménez, which contains photographs, posters, and flyers that demonstrated or related to women activism in Mexico.

Background Ana Victoria Jiménez was born in Mexico City on August 31, 1941. Her parents were Ana Álvarez and Ramiro Jiménez. She began her activism at the young age of seventeen. In her house, during the 1950s and 1960s, she and her family read many journals by Política and other newspapers, that informed on the political climate; she also had many friends that she would attend political conferences with. Years later, she worked for IBM where she spent much of her time utilizing a portable machine. In 2011, her documentations of the women's movement gained recognition and was exhibited as an archive at, the Universidad Iberoamericana. Thereafter, Ana Victoria Jiménez formed part of important exhibitions in the United States and continued her work as an editor and author in Mexico.

She did not attain a high school diploma. It was not until later of her photography career that she took an instructional class with well known photographer, Alicia D'Amico.

Activism Communism Jiménez was dedicated to activism from the 1960s onwards. In the beginning of her activist career, she formed part of the Communist Party. Within the Communist Party, specifically the Communist Youth League, she was able to become the secretary of the party's Comité Central (The central Committee). Another group that Jiménez decided to join, in 1972, was Movimiento Nacional de Mujeres (MNM). MNM was established by Esperanza Brito de Martí and other women, whom worked in broadcasting and print media industries such as Martha de la Lama.

Furthering her involvement with the feminist world, Jiménez engaged in many feminist art collectives. Being part of feminist art collectives, according to Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, allowed Jiménez to question the discrimination in art that women faced. Her questioning, led her to produce work that mirrored personal experiences of women in the movement and creating exhibitions, which implemented the idea that one should challenge the patriarcal culture found in art.

Works Photography Much of her recognized photography is those photographed during Mexican Feminist Movement. Many of Jiménez's images portray activist during protest and events such as the March for Decriminalizing Abortion (1977), in front of Mexico's Angel of independence, and the protest in the National Auditorium against the ideas posed by the Miss Universe contest of Mexico. During the time that Ana Victoria Jiménez was dedicated to photography, she sold some of her work and was even asked to create images for store catalogues. Gabriela Aceves claims that, Jiménez's still photography, showing demonstrations by feminist, contributed to placing Mexico's feminist movement in a state of credibility, and a place where they fought for global women issues. The second theme of the archive is "De Mujeres objeto a Muñecas en Acción" (From Women object to Dolls in Action), it explores the ways that the feminist movement shed light on many of the stereotypes attached to gender and the social and cultural effects the stereotypes has implicated. The third theme of the archive,"Revolución y Rebelión, Estrategias Artísticas y Culturales" (Revolution and Rebellion, Artistic and Cultural Strategies), focuses on specific techniques that the feminist movement utilized for dissemination and promotion. The fourth theme, "Diversidad de la militancia feminista" (Diversity of feminist militancy), highlights the complexity and diversity of the groups that have supported and been part of the feminist movement; it demonstrates the different ideologies and strategies that were utilized to reach equality of both genders in Mexico. The last theme of the archive, "¿Y tú qué haces?" (And what do you do?), poses an important question to the public, "What are you doing for the discovery and accomplishment of equality for both genders?". It took Jiménez almost twenty-one years after she took her last photo, which forms part of the archive, for a university to accept and publish her work as an archive.

Publications Author and editor After her participation in the feminist movement in Mexico, Jiménez decided to focus on independent writing and editing publications that touched on women's issues. She also published many articles, essays, and interviews in magazines and newspapers within Mexico and other parts of Latin America. Specific magazines and newspapers she wrote for was Mujer y Arte, Revista Fem, Interviú, and Siempre.

Author of photographic essay, Jiménez: 1985. Author of, “Mi primer Diario”, 1996. Author of, "Familias en transformación y códigos por transformar: construyendo las propuestas políticas de las mujeres para el código civil taller", México, D.F. : Grupo de Educación Popular con Mujeres, 1992. Author of, Feminismo en transición con feminism, 1997. Author of, "México, país de ilusiones: Ángel Bassols Batalla, una vida dedicada a la geografía. Notas autobiográficas", México : UNAM, 1997. Author and editor of, Columpio sobre el precipicio(narración fotográfica). Mexico City, 1985. Co author of, Breve historia de la participación política de las mujeres en México. In: Límites y desigualdades en el empoderamiento de las mujeres en el PAN, PRI y PRD. Las Ciencias Sociales Estudios de Género . Miguel Ángel Porrúa, Distrito Federal, México, pg. 33-61. 2008. Co-author of, "Paula Batalla, donde quiera que me paro, soy yo", Cidhal, 1988, pg.144. Co-author of, “La Cronología sobre la despenalización del aborto”, pg. 7-14. 1994, found in the book, “Sobre el aborto. Una antología”. Co-editor of, Memoria de la Unión Nacional de Mujeres Mexicanas, UNMMAC, México, 2000, pg. 368. Co-Author of, "Donde quiera que me paro, soy yo : autobiografía de una jaramillista", México, D.F. : Comunicación, Intercambio y Desarrollo Humano en América Latina, 1988. . Co-Author of, "DE ENTRE LA DESTRUCCION EMERGE LA RECONSTRUCCION DE LAS CONCIENCIAS", 1985. Co-Author of, Sembradoras de Futuros, Mexico UNNAMAC, 2000. Co-Author of, Manuales de Lectura y Redacción para personal administrativo del Instituto de Capacitación de la Industria de la Construcción (ICIC). Editor of, "La Lleca Cómo Hacemos lo que hacemos" , Mexico, 2008.