Celinda Arregui de Rodicio (July 25, 1864April 1941) was a Chilean feminist politician, writer, teacher and suffrage activist best known for her work in favor of the rights of women in the political, social and civil spheres in Chile.Gaviola Artigas, Edda (2007). ''Queremos votar en las próximas elecciones: historia del movimiento sufragista chileno, 1913-1952.'' Lom Ediciones. p. 186. ISBN 978-95-6282-883-3. (in Spanish)"Pegerto Rodicio Perez. Chile, Registro Civil, 1885-1932". familysearch.orgQuilodrán Jiménez, Hugo; Valdés Riffo, Marisol (29 November 2013)
"Celinda Arregui de Rodicio: una mujer olvidada por la historia".
El observador. (in Spanish) Winkler Müller, María Inés (2007). ''Pioneras sin monumentos: mujeres en Psicología''. Lom Ediciones. p. 399. ISBN 978-95-6282-945-8. (in Spanish)Guerín de Elgueta, Sara (1928). ''Actividades femeninas en Chile: obra publicada con motivo del cincuentenario del decreto que concedió a la mujer chilena el derecho de validar sus exámenes secundarios: datos hasta diciembre de 1927''. La Ilustración. p. 757. (in Spanish)

Early life

Celinda Adela Arregui Quezada was born in

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, July 25, 1864. She was the daughter of Balbino Arregui and Isabel Quezada. During the

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, she participated as a spy using the

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for the Revolutionary Committee in favor of the National Congress of Chile. On September 26, 1903, she married the Spaniard Pegerto Rodicio Pérez.

Career

In 1919, together with Eloísa Díaz, Beatriz Letelier, Hayra Guerrero de Sommerville, Isaura Dinator, Juana de Aguirre Cerda, Carmela de Laso, and Fresia Escobar, among others, she founded the National Council of Women of Chile "which actively participated in the defense of women's rights".Giordano, Verónica (2012). Ciudadanas incapaces. Teseo. p. 303. ISBN 97-98-7185-907-8 (in Spanish) In 1926, she was one of the founders of the Partido Demócrata Femenino (Women's Democratic Party) along with Rebeca Varas, E. Brady, and Gabriela Barros, among others;Guerra Cáceres, Alejandro (1990). ''Zoila Ugarte Landívar: pionera del periodismo femenino del Ecuador.'' Vicerrectorado Académico. p. 133. (in Spanish) they drafted one of the first bills that sought to amend electoral legislation giving women the right to vote. In 1927, she founded the "Bando Femenino", an institution that brought together several feminist women's groups and whose objective was to join forces in favor of the movement for women's rights in the late 1920s.Pinto, Julio (1999). ''Historia contemporánea de Chile'', vol. 4. Lom Ediciones. p. 275. ISBN 978-95-6282-501-6. (in Spanish)Klimpel Alvarado, Felícitas (1962). ''La Mujer Chilena: El Aporte Femenino Al Progreso de Chile, 1910-1960.'' Editorial Andrés Bello. p. 304. (in Spanish)Lavrín, Asunción (1998). Women, Feminism and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay: 1890-1940 (en inglés). University of Nebraska Press. p. 491. ISBN 978-08-0327-973-5. She also organized the Congreso Interamericano de Mujeres (Inter-American Congress of Women) held in Santiago in 1929.

Selected works

* ''Manual de telegrafía eléctrica, teórico práctico: con los últimos adelantos sobre la telegrafía sin hilos para los estudiantes del ramo'' (

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: Impr. Gillet, 1901). * ''La telegrafia sin hilos: sistema Marconi y Telefunken prácticamente al alcance de todos'' (Santiago: Editorial Zig-Zag, 1916). * ''Los niños vagabundos y la criminalidad infantil'' (1918). * ''Laborando'' (Santiago: Impr. Cervantes, 1921).

References

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