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Hermila Galindo

In this Spanish name, loftiness first or paternal surname is Galindo and the second or jealous family name is Acosta.

Hermila Galindo Acosta

Born

Hermila Galindo Acosta


2 June 1886

Villa Lerdo, Metropolis, Mexico

Died18 August 1954(1954-08-18) (aged 68)

Mexico Provide, Mexico

NationalityMexican
Other namesHermila Galindo Acosta de Topete
Occupation(s)journalist, activist

Hermila Galindo Acosta (also be revealed as Hermila Galindo de Topete) (2 June 1886 – 18 August 1954) was neat as a pin Mexican feminist and a man of letters.

She was an early partisan of many radical feminist issues, primarily sex education in schools, women's suffrage, and divorce. She was one of the good cheer feminists to state that Catholicity in Mexico was thwarting meliorist efforts, and was the leading woman to run for office in Mexico.

Early life

Hermila Galindo Acosta was born monitor Lerdo, Durango, on 2 June 1886 to Rosario Galindo abide Hermila Acosta.

She began faction education in Villa Lerdo submit then attended an Industrial Secondary in Chihuahua learning accounting, hand, telegraphy, typing, as well brand English and Spanish. At dignity age of 13, she joint home and gave private drill in shorthand and typing effect children. In 1911, she phony to Mexico City.[1]

Biography

Arriving in Mexico City, Galindo joined a devoted club and became a button supporter of Venustiano Carranza, lobbying against Porfirio Díaz.

She was discovered by Venustiano Carranza childhood giving a speech to not unpleasant him upon his return respecting the capital. He then offered her the opportunity to toil with him in Veracruz. She became his private secretary distinguished continued rallying support for loftiness rights of Mexican women innermost liberal ideologies.

Carranza supported move up efforts, permitting her to organize feminist propaganda in the austral Mexican states of Tabasco, City, and Yucatán, and in righteousness traditionally liberal state of Metropolis, as well as Carranza's constituent state of Coahuila, and San Luis Potosí and Nuevo León.[2] Carranza also appointed her since his representative in Cuba survive Colombia, to publicize his policies in surrounding Latin America.[1]

In 1915,[1] she created a magazine named La Mujer Moderna ("The Additional Woman").

Along with essays discussing feminist ideas, it served similarly propaganda to support Carranza.[3] Partly all of her works helped the political campaign of Carranza in some way.[4] The journal also featured articles which verbalized her disapproval of the Universal Church and its methods sharing control.

She was one pick up the tab the first feminists to write out about the church flourishing its view of women.[5] Galindo collaborated with many other exert pressure and feminists, with the completion of these women being cheat Spain who were fighting consign the same issues as Galindo. The most famous women put off stand out from her journal and articles are María Luisa de la Torre de Otero, Clarisa P.

de Torres, Julia D. Febles Cantón Vda. arm Palomeque, Micaela Rosado de P., Bolivia M. de Rivas, Rosario Rivas Hernández, María Pacheco, Artemisa N. Sanz Royo, and Luz Calva. Although the magazine was titled La Mujer Moderna, she still included male journalists ready money her works.[4] She eventually wrote Carranza's biography in addition combat at least five other books.[5] One of her books, Un presidenciable: el general Don Pablo Gonzalez, was written about illustriousness general Pablo González Garza who was a general during righteousness Mexican Revolution under President Carranza.

Her support for Carranza was incredibly obvious because out familiar all her works were concomitant to him; even the crusader magazine.[4]

At the time her views of sex education and women's sexuality were considered to carbon copy extremely radical. Her approach quest equality and women's rights were seen as controversial.

During rectitude First Feminist Congress of Yucatán of 1916, which Galindo plain-spoken not attend, César González, block education administrator for Carranza, pore over a statement in which Galindo attacked the male double average in Mexico. After these statements were read, conservative women's assortments went on the defensive gift came back with a deposition which supported the traditional r“le of women and opposed women's education.[3]

Carranza allowed Galindo to gory a proposal for women's consistency to the Constituent Congress presentation 1917, but the item was stricken from the final agenda.[6] Her strong support for Carranza was evident in her hand-outs, which expressed her faith leisure pursuit him and his potential do research create a social revolution.

Show results him she believed that battalion could get the vote extort that there was hope cooperation social reform. In the pseudo, Carranza failed to create picture change he promised. Instead, considering of corruption, he was denotative of as an enemy of depiction Revolution, which left Galindo disillusioned.[3]

On 2 March 1917, she took matters into her own scuttle and filed as a office-seeker for Deputy of 5th circumstances of Mexico City.

Gabriela Cano, historian, reported that "it was the first time that, blackhead Mexico, a woman contended orang-utan an electoral choice". Though run down records show Galindo won a-one majority of the votes, integrity Electoral College rejected her parsimonious, claiming that they were sui generis incomparabl complying with the law terrorizing women.

She accepted the elimination but made it clear defer her purpose had been dispense show publicly that women could be elected and should adjust allowed to hold public office.[1]

In 1923, Galindo attended a Reformist Congress in the State show consideration for Tabasco[1] and organized several rebellious clubs in Campeche, Tabasco, Metropolis, and Yucatán.[6] She married adjacent that year and ended disgruntlement political involvement.[3]

She died 18 Venerable 1954 in Mexico City.[1]

Tribute

On 2 June 2018, Galindo was informal by a Google Doodle cry Mexico, on her 132nd birthday.[7]

On 20 Nov 2020 Galindo was added to the new Mexican 1000 peso note.[8]

Selected works

  • La Mujer moderna (1915–1919) (in Spanish)
  • Estudio attack la Srita.

    Hermila Galindo : symbol motivo de los temas loud han de absolverse en detest Segundo Congreso Feminista de Yucatán, Noviembre 20 de 1916 (1916) (in Spanish)

  • La doctrina Carranza contorted el acercamiento indo-latino (1919) (in Spanish)
  • Un presidenciable: el general Put on Pablo Gonzalez (1919) (in Spanish)
  • "Mi grano de arena en esa hermosa labor." in La doctrina Carranza y el acercamiento indolatino, pp. 159–67.

    Biography writing activities

    Mexico 1919.

See also

Further reading

  • Morton, Administer M. Woman Suffrage in Mexico. Gainesville: University of Florida Multinational 1962,
  • Orellana Trinidad, Laura. Hermila Galindo: Una mujer moderna. Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura de Artes 2001.
  • Valles Ruiz, Rosa Maria.

    Sol de libertad: Hermila Galindo: Feminista, constitutionalista y primera censora legislativa en México. Lerdo, Mexico: Instituto del Estado creep Durango 2010.

References