Miêtta Santiago

Maria Ernestina Carneiro Santiago de Souza (pseudonym, Miêtta Santiago; Varginha, 1903–1995) was a Brazilian writer, poet, lawyer, suffragist and feminist activist in support of women's rights. She was one of the early women in Brazil to fully exercise their political rights.

Biography

With Celina Guimarães Viana, Santiago was a pioneer in 1927 in the struggle for women's suffrage in Brazil.^[1] In 1928, Santiago challenged the constitutionality of the ban on women voting in Brazil, stating that it breached Article 70 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of the United States of Brazil, dated February 24, 1891, which was then in force.^[2][3][4][5]

Selected works

• Namorada da Deus (1936)
• Maria Ausência (1940)
• Uma consciência unitária para a humanidade (1981)
• As 7 poesias (1981)

References

1. Paganini, Luiz Antônio; Paganini, Nilze (2012). "Do binário ao unitário: Miêtta Santiago e a transpoesia". Revista Graphos (in Portuguese) 14 (2): 81–90. ISSN 1516-1536.
2. "Pioneiras sufragistas brasileiras e a conquista do voto feminino", Ciência e Humanidades - Demografia (in Portuguese)
3. Paganini, Luiz Antônio; Paganini, Nilze (2012). "Do binário ao unitário: Miêtta Santiago e a transpoesia", Revista Graphos 14 (2): 81–90. ISSN 1516-1536 (in Portuguese)
4. Séguin, Elida (2002). Minorias E Grupos Vulneraveis: Uma Abordagem Juridica (in Portuguese)
5. "80 anos de voto: todo poder as mulheres!" (in Portuguese). União Nacional dos Estudantes.