A Nation of Women
An Early Feminist Speaks Out
$27.11
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2022
Summary
The groundbreaking feminist and socialist writings of Puerto Rican author and activist Luisa Capetillo
A Penguin Classic
In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested and acquitted for being the first woman to wear men’s trousers publicly. While this act of gender-nonconforming rebellion elevated her to feminist icon status in modern pop culture, it also overshadowed the significant contributions she made to the women’s movement and anarchist labor movements of t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143136071 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0143136070 |
| Author: | Luisa Capetillo, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 130mm x 196mm |
Luisa Capetillo
Luisa Capetillo was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico in 1879 to working-class parents. She worked in cigar factories as a reader, where she first became active in labor organizing. A committed activist, Capetillo traveled throughout Puerto Rico, the United States, and Cuba to contribute to the international labor movement. She wrote extensively both for the Spanish press, notably in La Mujer, a short-lived feminist working-class magazine that she founded. She is the author of many works relating to her ideas, among them La humanidad del futuro (1910), Verdad y justicia: Cuento de Navidad para niños (1910) and Influencias de las ideas modernas (1916).
Félix V. Matos Rodríguez is the Chancellor of the City University of New York (CUNY). With his appointment, Matos Rodríguez made history by becoming the first educator of color, and the first Latino, selected as CUNY’s Chancellor.
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