Digna Collazo

María Digna Collazo y del Castillo was a Cuban midwife, essayist, editor, suffragist, and feminist activist. She was one of the architects of Cuba's women's suffrage campaign of the 1910s, along with Amalia Mallén and Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia.[1] To this end, she participated in the foundation of the first organizations that sought to allow women to vote in her country, such as the Cuban Suffragists (1912) and the National Suffragist Party (1913) – of which she was vice president.[2][3][4] Furthermore, together with Carmen Velacoracho de Lara, she founded the Feminist Party in 1918.[5]

Digna Collazo
Born
Cuba
Died
Cuba
NationalityCuban
Occupations
  • Midwife
  • Essayist
  • Editor
  • Translator
Known forFeminist activism
Political party
  • Feminist Party
  • National Suffragist Party

Digna Collazo was also the first president of the nascent Midwives' Association of Cuba in 1889, an entity which enabled the compulsory licensing of this type of professional.[6][7]

She was also editor-in-chief of the magazine El Amigo (1900)[2] and director of the periodical El Sufragista (1913).[8]

References
  1. Campuzano, Luisa (1999). El sol en la nieve: Julián del Casal (1863–1893) [The sun on snow: Julián del Casal (1863–1893)] (in Spanish). Casa de las Américas. p. 290. ISBN 978-959-040-067-4.
  2. Vinat de la Mata, Raquel (2001). Las cubanas en la posguerra (1898–1902): acercamiento a la reconstrucción de una etapa olvidada [Cuban women in the postwar period (1898–1902): an approach to the reconstruction of forgotten times] (in Spanish). Editora Política. p. 161.
  3. 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.
  4. Mujeres Latinoamericanas Del Siglo XX: Historia y Cultura, Volumen 2 [Latin American Women of the 20th Century: History and Culture, Volume 2] (in Spanish). UAM Iztapalapa. 1998. p. 724. ISBN 978-970-654-337-0.
  5. Stoner, K. Lynn; Serrano Pérez, Luís Hipólito (2000). Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 43. ISBN 978-084-202-643-7. Retrieved 30 September 2016 – via Google Books.
  6. Carrillo, Justo (1985). Cuba 1933: Estudiantes, Yanquis y Soldados [Cuba 1933: Students, Yankees, and Soldiers] (in Spanish). Instituto de Estudios Interamericanos, University of Miami. p. 497. ISBN 978-093-550-100-1.
  7. Portugal, Ana María (2010). "Efemérides de las mujeres" [Diaries of women] (PDF) (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Fundación ISIS Internacional. p. 46. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  8. Núñez Machín, Ana (1989). Mujeres en el periodismo Cubano [Cuban women in journalism] (in Spanish). Editorial Oriente. p. 210.
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