Isabel Morel

Delia Ducoing, better known as Delia Ducoing de Arrate or Isabel Morel (1885-?), was a Chilean writer, journalist, editor and feminist activist. She was best known for her work on behalf of women's rights in the political, social and civil sphere in Chile since 1914.^[1][2][3] On October 26, 1927, she founded the Women's Union of Chile in the city of Valparaíso with Gabriela Mandujano and Aurora Argomedo, assuming its presidency on May 6, 1928.^[4][5] As a writer, one of her best known works is the book Charlas femeninas (1930), one of the first publications which systematized feminist thought in Chile. She also wrote and edited the magazine Nosotras in the early 1930s.^[6][7]

Selected works

• Charlas Femeninas (1930)
• El libertador del Hada de Plata (1943)

References

1. Pinto, Julio (1999). Historia contemporánea de Chile (in Spanish) 4. LOM Ediciones. p. 275. ISBN 978-95-6282-501-6.
2. Heise, Julio (1974). Historia de Chile: El período parlamentario 1861-1925 (in Spanish). Editorial Andrés Bello.
3. Salas Neumann, Emma S. (2006). Las mujeres chilenas que recibieron el siglo XX y las que lo despidieron (in Spanish). p. 104. ISBN 978-95-6310-133-1.
4. Winkler Müller, María Inés (2007). Pioneras sin monumentos: mujeres en Psicología (in Spanish). LOM Ediciones. p. 399. ISBN 978-95-6282-945-8.
5. Klimpel Alvarado, Felícitas (1962). La Mujer Chilena: El Aporte Femenino Al Progreso de Chile, 1910-1960 (in Spanish). Editorial Andrés Bello. p. 304.
6. Gaviola Artigas, Edda (2007). Queremos votar en las próximas elecciones: historia del movimiento sufragista chileno, 1913-1952 (in Spanish). LOM Ediciones. p. 186. ISBN 978-95-6282-883-3.
7. Lavrín, Asunción (1998). Women, Feminism and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay: 1890-1940. University of Nebraska Press. p. 491. ISBN 978-08-0327-973-5.