Feminist Movement in Portugal
Feminist Movement in Portugal for the Emancipation of Women
As in the United States and Europe, a movement of intense struggle for a broader range of women's rights emerges in Portugal, in which the names of this movement stand out: Ana de Castro Osório, Adelaide Cabete, Carolina Beatriz Ângelo, Maria Veleda,
In 1907 the Portuguese Group of Feminist Studies was created under the direction of Ana de Castro Osório with the aim of spreading the ideals of feminine emancipation and founding a library and publishing articles destined to instruct and educate the Portuguese woman
This group was attended by intellectuals, doctors, writers and, above all, teachers, had an ephemeral existence
In 1908 the Republican League of Portuguese Women was an organization founded by Ana de Castro Osório and António José de Almeida, supported by the Portuguese Republican Party
They defended the right to education, to work, to the administration of goods, the fight against prostitution and child begging. The education and instruction of women and economic independence are the subjects most defended by this movement. They fought for equal rights and the right to vote (which unfortunately did not come to be consecrated by the First Republic through the Constitution of 1911)
It was in Portugal that for the first time in Southern Europe and in the Iberian Peninsula a woman exercised the right to vote in elections to the Constituent Assembly, Carolina Beatriz Ângelo exercised this right on May 28, 1911, thus defying patriarchal power.
The Republican League of Portuguese Women wrote in several generalist newspapers, but also created their own press "The woman and the child"; (monthly magazine published between 1909 and 1911) and the newspaper "The Madrugada", published between 1911 and 1918
Later, Ana de Castro Osório and Carolina Beatriz Ângelo resign from the League and the magazine "Woman and Child"
The Republican League of Portuguese Women ended in 1919
As in the United States and Europe, a movement of intense struggle for a broader range of women's rights emerges in Portugal, in which the names of this movement stand out: Ana de Castro Osório, Adelaide Cabete, Carolina Beatriz Ângelo, Maria Veleda,
In 1907 the Portuguese Group of Feminist Studies was created under the direction of Ana de Castro Osório with the aim of spreading the ideals of feminine emancipation and founding a library and publishing articles destined to instruct and educate the Portuguese woman
This group was attended by intellectuals, doctors, writers and, above all, teachers, had an ephemeral existence
In 1908 the Republican League of Portuguese Women was an organization founded by Ana de Castro Osório and António José de Almeida, supported by the Portuguese Republican Party
They defended the right to education, to work, to the administration of goods, the fight against prostitution and child begging. The education and instruction of women and economic independence are the subjects most defended by this movement. They fought for equal rights and the right to vote (which unfortunately did not come to be consecrated by the First Republic through the Constitution of 1911)
It was in Portugal that for the first time in Southern Europe and in the Iberian Peninsula a woman exercised the right to vote in elections to the Constituent Assembly, Carolina Beatriz Ângelo exercised this right on May 28, 1911, thus defying patriarchal power.
Picture 1- Carolina Beatriz Ângelo- medical doctor and was the first woman to vote in Southern Europe
The Republican League of Portuguese Women wrote in several generalist newspapers, but also created their own press "The woman and the child"; (monthly magazine published between 1909 and 1911) and the newspaper "The Madrugada", published between 1911 and 1918
Later, Ana de Castro Osório and Carolina Beatriz Ângelo resign from the League and the magazine "Woman and Child"
The Republican League of Portuguese Women ended in 1919
Picture 2- Cover of the magazine "Woman and Child"
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