Arizmendi, Elena, 1884-1949
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Name (Latin)
Arizmendi, Elena, 1884-1949
Other forms of name
Arizmendi Mejía, Elena, 1884-1949
Mejía, Elena Arizmendi, 1884-1949
Date of birth
1884-01-18
Date of death
1949
Associated country
Mexico
United States
Field of activity
Education
Feminism
Nursing
Occupation
Feminists
Nurses
Teachers
Associated Language
spa
Gender
female
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Revivir el pasado con el hálito del presente, 2018:p. 102-103 (Elena Arizmendi; Elena Arizmendi Mejía was born in 1884 within a liberal family of Oaxaca; studied 1909-1911 at the nurses' training school of the Santa Rosa hospital in San Antonio, Tex.; combining her profession with her political inclination, she founded the Cruz Blanca Neutral on May 5, 1911, to support the revolutionary faction [in the Mexican Revolution]; fled with José Vasconcelos to New York and later Europe; decided to settle and create a life of her own in the city that never sleeps [New York]; there she began to fight for feminist ideals, published the journal Feminismo Internacional, created the Liga de Mujeres Ibéricas e Hispanoamericanas and worked as a teacher; returned to Mexico in 1938 and died there in 1949)
- Se llamaba Elena Arizmendi, 2010:t.p. (Elena Arizmendi) p. 31 (Elena Arizmendi Mejia b. Mexico City, 18 Jan. 1884) p. 198 (d. 1949)