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)

Wikipedia description:

Ofelia Domínguez Navarro (Mataguá, December 9, 1894 – Havana, July 7, 1976) was a Cuban writer, teacher, lawyer, feminist and activist. She was a proponent of the rights of women and illegitimate children. As a journalist, Domínguez Navarro supported feminist views while writing for various media in Cuba, and in 1935, became the first woman newspaper director in the country with La Palabra. She was noted as one of the leading intellectuals of the decades of 1930 and 1940, with Mirta Aguirre and Mariblanca Sabas Aloma.

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