Sara Rey Álvarez Explained

Sara Rey Álvarez (1894–1949) was a Uruguayan writer, feminist and political activist.

Life

Sara Rey Álvarez studied psychology and philosophy in London and Brussels in the mid-1920s.[1] There she interviewed Emmeline Pankhurst,[2] and met Louise Van Den Plas and other European suffragists.[3]

She returned to Uruguay in 1928, and joined the Uruguayan Women's Suffrage Alliance. In a series of 1928 conferences she distinguished three 'currents' in psychology – behavioral psychology, Gestalt psychology and Freud's 'psychology of the unconscious' – and attempted to apply psychology to the problem of young offenders.[1] In 1929 she became a member of the Council for the Protection of Delinquents and Minors, trying to change how women's prisons and asylums were managed.[2]

In 1932 she cofounded the League for Women's Rights, and was the League's president.[2] The following year she launched the Independent Democratic Feminist Party (Partido Independiente Democratico Femenino, or PIDF). Throughout the 1930s she continued propagating her ideas through the PIDF's publication, Ideas y Acción.[2] However, after a poor showing in the 1938 Uruguayan general election, the PIDF was disbanded.[4]

Works

Non-fiction

Novels

Notes and References

  1. Santiago Navarro . Un libro uruguayo en la biblioteca de Sigmund Freud .
  2. Graciela . Sapriza . Graciela Sapriza . Las ineludibles monjas del Buen Pastor en la cárcel de mujeres (Uruguay-1898-1989) . Descentrada . 3 . 2 . September 2019 – February 2020 .
  3. Book: Ann E. Towns. Women and States: Norms and Hierarchies in International Society. 2010. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-76885-6. 105.
  4. Book: Asuncion Lavrin. Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940. 1998. U of Nebraska Press. 0-8032-7973-6. 221, 345–9.