Luisa Capetillo, Pioneer Puerto Rican Feminist
With the collaboration of students from the Graduate Program in Translation, The University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Spring 1991
©2006
Monographs
XVIII,
94 Pages
Series:
Nuestra Voz, Volume 4
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- XVIII, 94
- Year
- 2006
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9780820442853
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Biographie modernity Capetillo, Luisa
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2006. XVIII, 94 pp., 8 fig.
