%0 Book
%A Norma Valle-Ferrer
%A Gloria Waldman
%D 2021
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1074-6773
%T Luisa Capetillo, Pioneer Puerto Rican Feminist
%B With the collaboration of students from the Graduate Program in Translation, The University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Spring 1991
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1101959
%X Luisa Capetillo (1879-1922) was a pioneer in the struggle for women’s and workers’ rights. A feminist and an anarchist, she earned her living as a labor leader and journalist. She wrote brilliant theoretical essays and published four books, including several plays. Ahead of her time, she espoused vegetarianism, a daily regime of Swedish calisthenics, and was the first woman in the Caribbean to wear pants in public. Her life can be read as a dramatic novel, every day an intense ode to personal and political liberation. This biography, the only in-depth historical account of her life and work, rescued her from oblivion and made her a popular icon throughout Latin America. This edition, the first available in English, brings Capetillo’s inspiring story to a broader audience.
%K Biographie, modernity, Capetillo, Luisa
%G English