Aída Peláez Martínez (

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5 February 1895 – 1923), also known by her pseudonym Eugenio, was a

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n writer, journalist,

suffragist Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise, is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally in English, the right to v ...

, and

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

activist. She was one of the architects of Cuba's

women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the start of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vot ...

campaign of the 1910s, along with Digna Collazo and Amalia Mallén. To this end, she participated in various pro-feminist organizations.

Life and work

She was the daughter of Rodolfo Manuel José Jesús Peláez y Hernández and Adela María Aída de la Caridad Martínez y Díaz Morales, and began to write at an early age. After her father forbade her to continue such work, she used the pseudonym Eugenio at the request of her mother. Aída was one of the pioneers of the

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in Cuba. She participated in the Continental Women's Union, an organization which took a leading role, and served in the National Suffragist Party as its vice president and representative in the First Women's Congress (1923). She also founded the Panamerican Round Table and Women's House of America. She was the "first woman to be counted as a member of the Governing Board of the Athenaeum of Havana, having been re-elected to it three times." In 1923, she published "Necesidad del voto para la mujer" (Necessity of the vote for women) in the magazines ''El Sufragista'' and ''El sufragio femenino''. Furthermore, she was editor of the periodicals ''La discusión'', ''La Mujer'' (together with

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and

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), ''de Atlántida'' (together with Clara Moreda), and the literary-cultural magazine ''Ideal'' which she founded in 1919.

References

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