According to officials of the local textile industry, Argentine women spend two to three times as much on underwear as their counterparts worldwide.

An average middle-class Argentine woman spends about $400 a year on underwear, or the equivalent of one month's salary for a typical worker here.

Argentine women face numerous systemic challenges common to those in other nations, however.

Two years later, in 1947, Argentine women in fact, gained the right to vote.

Many doctors and psychiatrists attribute this to a general obsession among Argentine women with being thin.

One is reality, an Argentine woman confined to a Mexican sanitarium in the 1970s.

He recalled an Argentine woman confronting him recently at a bookstore reading.

"Chilean women feel conflict with Argentine women," she said.

Apart from the censorship issue, many Argentine women are saying that they hope the book will generate a new understanding of female sexuality.

The Argentine woman deservedly takes up ever more space in the institutional and economic life of the country.