Liga das Mulheres Republicanas
The Liga das Mulheres Republicanas (English: Republican Women's League) was a Portuguese feminist organisation founded in 1909 by Ana de Castro Osório and Adelaide Cabete. It split in 1912 after the refusal of the government to pass a law enabling women to vote. Cabete subsequently started the Conselho Nacional das Mulheres Portuguesas.[1][2][3]
Prominent members
[edit]- Adelaide Cabete, founding member;[1]
- Adelaide Cunha Barradas;
- Adelina da Glória Paletti Berger, president of the Lagos nucleus;
- Alice Moderno;
- Antónia de Jesus da Silva;
- Alzira Augusta de Lourdes Pinto Vieira;
- Amélia França Borges;
- Ana Augusta de Castilho;
- Ana de Castro Osório, founding member and first president of LRMP (1908-1911);
- Ana Maria Gonçalves Dias;
- Angélica Lopes Viana Porto;
- Bárbara Rosa de Carvalho Pereira;
- Beatriz Pinheiro de Lemos;
- Camila Sousa Lopes;
- Carolina Beatriz Ângelo, founding member and first woman to vote in Portugal;
- Domitila de Carvalho;
- Ernestina Pereira Santos;
- Elzira Dantas Machado, first lady of the Portuguese Republic;
- Fausta Pinto da Gama;
- Filipa de Oliveira;
- Filomena Honorina da Costa;
- Joana de Almeida Nogueira;
- Judite Pontes Rodrigues;
- Lénia Loyo Pequito;
- Lídia de Oliveira;
- Luísa de Almeida;
- Manuela Porto;
- Maria Benedita Mouzinho de Albuquerque Pinho;
- Maria Clara Correia Alves;
- Maria Evelina de Sousa;
- Maria Veleda, second president of LRMP (1911-1919);
- Mariana da Assunção da Silva;
- Rita Dantas Machado, daughter of Bernardino Machado, third and eight president of the Portuguese Republic, and of Elzira Dantas Machado;
- Sofia Quintino;
- Virgínia da Fonseca;
- Virgínia Quaresma.
References
[edit]- ^ "Women Writers up to 1974" by Hilary Owen and Cláudio Pazos Alonso, chapter 14, p. 169, in A Companion to Portuguese Literature (eds. Stephen Parkinson, Cláudio Pazos Alonso and T.F. Earle), Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: Tamesis, ISBN 9781855661943
- ^ Karen M. Offen (2000). European Feminisms, 1700-1950: A Political History. Stanford University Press. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-8047-3420-2.
- ^ Christine Fauré (2003-08-21). Political and Historical Encyclopaedia of Women. Routledge. p. 967. ISBN 978-1-135-45690-0.