Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia explained

Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia
Pseudonym:	Eugenio
Birth Date:	5 February 1895
Birth Place:	Havana, Cuba
Language:	Spanish

Aída Peláez Martínez (fl. 5 February 1895 – 1923), also known by her pseudonym Eugenio,^[1] was a Cuban writer, journalist, suffragist, and feminist activist.^[2] She was one of the architects of Cuba's women's suffrage campaign of the 1910s, along with Digna Collazo and Amalia Mallén.^[3] To this end, she participated in various pro-feminist organizations.^[4]

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.^[2]

Aída was one of the pioneers of the feminist movement in Cuba.^[5] She participated in the Continental Women's Union, an organization which took a leading role,^[6] and served in the National Suffragist Party as its vice president^[7] and representative in the First Women's Congress (1923).^[4] She also founded the Panamerican Round Table and Women's House of America.^[8] 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."^[2]

In 1923, she published "Necesidad del voto para la mujer" (Necessity of the vote for women) in the magazines El Sufragista^[9] and El sufragio femenino.^[4] Furthermore, she was editor of the periodicals La discusión,^[2] La Mujer (together with Domitila García de Coronado and Isabel Margarita Ordetx), de Atlántida (together with Clara Moreda),^[5] and the literary-cultural magazine Ideal which she founded in 1919.^{[10] [11]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Alzola, Concepción Teresa . Trayectoria de la mujer Cubana . Trajectory of the Cuban woman . 2009 . Ediciones Universal . 978-159-388-127-6 . 461 . Spanish.
2. Book: Uribe Muñoz, Bernardo. Mujeres de América . Women of America . 1934 . Imprenta Oficial . 460 . Spanish.
3. Book: Album del cincuentenario de la Asociación de Reporters de La Habana 1902–1952 . Album of the 50th anniversary of the Havana Reporters' Association 1902–1952 . 1952 . Havana Reporters' Association . 440 . Spanish.
4. Book: Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography . Stoner . K. Lynn . Serrano Pérez . Luís Hipólito . 2000 . . 978-084-202-643-7 . 89 . 30 September 2016 . Google Books.
5. Book: Remos y Rubio, Juan José . Modernismo . 1945 . Cárdenas y compañía . Spanish.
6. Boletín oficial de la Secretaría de Estado de la República de Cuba . Official bulletin of the Secretary of State of the Republic of Cuba . Secretary of State of the Republic of Cuba . 1938 . 250 . 25 . Spanish.
7. Book: González Pagés, Julio César . En busca de un espacio: Historia de mujeres en Cuba . In search of a space: History of women in Cuba . 2003 . Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Cubano del Libro . 978-959-060-542-0 . 159 . Spanish.
8. Book: Valdés, Zoé . La Ficción Fidel . The Fidel Fiction . 2008 . Editorial Planeta . 978-840-807-859-3 . 375 . Spanish.
9. González Pagés . Julio César . Los 200 años de la prensa femenina en Cuba . 200 years of the women's press in Cuba . 2011 . 554 . 2218-0869 . La Jiribilla . Spanish . 29 September 2016.
10. Web site: Pacheco Valera . Irina . Mujeres destacadas en el tejido social de la República . Prominent women in the social fabric of the Republic . Spanish . 8 March 2013 . Cubarte . https://web.archive.org/web/20130313110804/http://www.cubarte.cult.cu/periodico/opinion/mujeres-destacadas-en-el-tejido-social-de-la-republica/24199.html . 13 March 2013 . 29 September 2016.
11. Web site: Diccionario de la Literatura Cubana . Dictionary of Cuban Literature . . Spanish . 29 September 2016 . 11 July 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140711145110/http://www.lluisvives.com/servlet/SirveObras/ill/02494907545027618976613/254i.htm . dead .