Amalia Mallén de Ostolaza was a Cuban essayist, translator, suffragist, and feminist activist.[1][2][3] She was one of the architects of Cuba's women's suffrage campaign of the 1910s, along with Digna Collazo and Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia. She participated in the founding of the country's first organizations supporting this cause, such as the National Feminist Party (1912), the Suffragist Party (1913) and National Suffragist Party (1913).[4][5] She was also director of the newspapers La Luz (1913) and El Sufragista.[6][7]
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In 1924, as president of the National Suffragist Party, she named journalist María Collado Romero her vice president.[8]
References
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- ^ Asociación de Reporters de La Habana (1952). Album del cincuentenario de la Asociación de Reporters de La Habana 1902–1952 [Album of the 50th anniversary of the Havana Reporters' Association 1902–1952] (in Spanish). Havana Reporters' Association. p. 440.
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- ^ Barcia, María del Carmen; Carr Parúas, Fernando; Leyva Collazo, Yahima; Ibarra, Jorge (2009). Mujeres al margen de la historia [Women on the margin of history] (in Spanish). Editorial de Ciencias Sociales. p. 251. ISBN 978-959-061-224-4.
- ^ González Pagés, Julio César (2011). "Los 200 años de la prensa femenina en Cuba" [200 years of the women's press in Cuba]. La Jiribilla (in Spanish) (554). ISSN 2218-0869. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
- ^ Stoner, K. Lynn (30 April 1991). From the House to the Streets: The Cuban Woman's Movement for Legal Reform, 1898–1940. Duke University Press. pp. 102–106. ISBN 9780822311492. Retrieved 30 September 2016 – via Google Books.