Liga Feminista Costarricense

The Liga Feminista Costarricense (Costa Rican Feminist League) was the first feminist organization formed in Costa Rica. In 1923, Mexican feminist Elena Arizmendi Mejia who was living in New York and publishing a magazine Feminismo Internacional (International Feminism) invited women all over the world to create subsidiaries of the International League of Iberian and Latin American Women on 12 October of that year.[1] As a result, Ángela Acuña Braun called together a group to found the Liga Feminista Costarricense (LFC), first feminist organization in Costa Rica. The inaugural members were Acuña (president), Esther De Mezerville (vice president), Ana Rosa Chacón (secretary), and participants María Ester Acuña, Isabel Calderón, Lela Campos, Rosario Floripe, Lidia Fernández, América de Hern, Ana María Loaiza, Vitalia Madrigal, María Oleary de Hine, Corina Rodríguez, María del Rosario Burgos, Marta Sancho, María Teresa Villegas and María Isabel Zamora.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Solano Arias, Marta E. (January–June 2014). "A 90 años de la fundación de la Liga Feminista Costarricense: los derechos políticos" (PDF). Revista Derecho Electoral (in Spanish) (San José, Costa Rica: Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones República de Costa Rica) (17): 357–375. ISSN 1659-2069. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Camacho De la O, Ana Lorena; Valitutti Chavarría, Gina, eds. (2007). Mujeres destacadas de Costa Rica (PDF) (in Spanish). San José, Costa Rica: Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres. p. 42. ISBN 978-9968-25-102-0. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
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