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, Sara Casal de Quiróz, Rosario Floripe, Lidia Fernández, América de Hern, Ana María Loaiza, Vitalia Madrigal, Marita O'Leary de Hine, Corina Rodríguez, María del Rosario Burgos, Marta Sancho, María Teresa Villegas and María Isabel Zamora. ^{[2] [3]}

The organization conducted a campaign for women's suffrage between 1925 and 1947; suffrage was finally granted in 1949. ^[4]

See also

• Women's Club of Costa Rica

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) (17). San José, Costa Rica: Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones República de Costa Rica: 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 (in Spanish). San José, Costa Rica: Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres. p. 42. ISBN   978-9968-25-102-0. Archived from the original on 14 August 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
3. "La batalla de las sufragistas ticas" [The Battle of Tica Suffragists]. La Nación (in Spanish). San José, Costa Rica. 27 July 2014. Archived from the original on 26 July 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
4. Smith, Bonnie G. (2008) (på engelska). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514890-9.