Domínguez Navarro, Ofelia, 1894-1976

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Name (Latin)
Domínguez Navarro, Ofelia, 1894-1976
Other forms of name
Navarro, Ofelia Domínguez, 1894-1976
Date of birth
1894-12-09
Date of death
1976-07-07
Associated country
Cuba
Field of activity
Feminism
Women's rights
Occupation
Journalists
Lawyers
Teachers
Associated Language
spa
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q16494189
Library of congress: no2018086202
Sources of Information
  • Marino, Katherine M. Feminism for the Americas, 2019:ECIP data view (Ofelia Domínguez Navarro)
  • WIkipedia WWW page 27 June 2018:Ofelia Domínguez Navarro (b. 9 December, 1894, Mataguá, d. 7 July 1976 Havana; Cuban writer, teacher, lawyer, feminist, and activist; proponent of the rights of women and illegitimate children; supported feminist views while writing for various media in Cuba and in 1935 became the first female newspaper director in the country; politically, participated in the movement of the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado, for which she was imprisoned and exiled to Mexico; in 1936, along with Matilde Rodríguez Cabo, she first proposed reforms designed to decriminalize abortion in Mexico's penal code, a proposal that was at the forefront of the international debate on the self-determination of women)