Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia

Aída Peláez Martínez (fl. 5 February 1895 – 1923), also known by her pseudonym Eugenio,[1] was a Cuban writer, journalist, suffragist, and feminist activist.[2] She was one of the architects of Cuba's women's suffrage campaign of the 1910s, along with Digna Collazo and Amalia Mallén.[3] To this end, she participated in various pro-feminist organizations.[4]

Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia
Born(1895-02-05)5 February 1895
Havana, Cuba
Died1923 (aged 27–28)
Pen nameEugenio
Occupation
  • Writer
  • Journalist
LanguageSpanish
NationalityCuban
Spouse
  • Teodoro J. Creus Esther (divorced)
  • Wenceslao de Villa Urrutia

Life and work

She was the daughter of Rodolfo Manuel José Jesús Peláez y Hernández and Adela María Aída de la Caridad Martínez y Díaz Morales, and began to write at an early age. After her father forbade her to continue such work, she used the pseudonym Eugenio at the request of her mother.[2]

Aída was one of the pioneers of the feminist movement in Cuba.[5] She participated in the Continental Women's Union, an organization which took a leading role,[6] and served in the National Suffragist Party as its vice president[7] and representative in the First Women's Congress (1923).[4] She also founded the Panamerican Round Table and Women's House of America.[8] She was the "first woman to be counted as a member of the Governing Board of the Athenaeum of Havana, having been re-elected to it three times."[2]

In 1923, she published "Necesidad del voto para la mujer" (Necessity of the vote for women) in the magazines El Sufragista[9] and El sufragio femenino.[4] Furthermore, she was editor of the periodicals La discusión,[2] La Mujer (together with Domitila García de Coronado and Isabel Margarita Ordetx), de Atlántida (together with Clara Moreda),[5] and the literary-cultural magazine Ideal which she founded in 1919.[10][11]

References
  1. Alzola, Concepción Teresa (2009). Trayectoria de la mujer Cubana [Trajectory of the Cuban woman] (in Spanish). Ediciones Universal. p. 461. ISBN 978-159-388-127-6.
  2. Uribe Muñoz, Bernardo (1934). Mujeres de América [Women of America] (in Spanish). Imprenta Oficial. p. 460.
  3. Album del cincuentenario de la Asociación de Reporters de La Habana 1902–1952 [Album of the 50th anniversary of the Havana Reporters' Association 1902–1952] (in Spanish). Havana Reporters' Association. 1952. p. 440.
  4. Stoner, K. Lynn; Serrano Pérez, Luís Hipólito (2000). Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 89. ISBN 978-084-202-643-7. Retrieved 30 September 2016 – via Google Books.
  5. Remos y Rubio, Juan José (1945). Modernismo (in Spanish). Cárdenas y compañía.
  6. "Boletín oficial de la Secretaría de Estado de la República de Cuba" [Official bulletin of the Secretary of State of the Republic of Cuba] (in Spanish). 25 (250). Secretary of State of the Republic of Cuba. 1938. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. González Pagés, Julio César (2003). En busca de un espacio: Historia de mujeres en Cuba [In search of a space: History of women in Cuba] (in Spanish). Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Cubano del Libro. p. 159. ISBN 978-959-060-542-0.
  8. Valdés, Zoé (2008). La Ficción Fidel [The Fidel Fiction] (in Spanish). Editorial Planeta. p. 375. ISBN 978-840-807-859-3.
  9. González Pagés, Julio César (2011). "Los 200 años de la prensa femenina en Cuba" [200 years of the women's press in Cuba]. La Jiribilla (in Spanish) (554). ISSN 2218-0869. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  10. Pacheco Valera, Irina (8 March 2013). "Mujeres destacadas en el tejido social de la República" [Prominent women in the social fabric of the Republic]. Cubarte (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 March 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  11. "Diccionario de la Literatura Cubana" [Dictionary of Cuban Literature] (in Spanish). Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
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