Amalia Mallén

Amalia Mallén de Ostolaza was a Cuban essayist, translator, suffragist, and feminist activist.[1][2][3] She was one of the architects of Cuba's women's suffrage campaign of the 1910s, along with Digna Collazo and Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia. She participated in the founding of the country's first organizations supporting this cause, such as the National Feminist Party (1912), the Suffragist Party (1913) and National Suffragist Party (1913).[4][5] She was also director of the newspapers La Luz (1913) and El Sufragista.[6][7]

Amalia Mallén
Born
Cuba
Died
Cuba
NationalityCuban
Occupation
  • Essayist
  • Translator
Known forFeminist activism
Political party
  • National Feminist Party
  • Suffragist Party
  • National Suffragist Party

In 1924, as president of the National Suffragist Party, she named journalist María Collado Romero her vice president.[8]

References
  1. Campuzano, Luisa (1999). El sol en la nieve: Julián del Casal (1863–1893) [The sun on snow: Julián del Casal (1863–1893)] (in Spanish). Casa de las Américas. p. 290. ISBN 978-959-040-067-4.
  2. Asociación de Reporters de La Habana (1952). 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] (in Spanish). Havana Reporters' Association. p. 440.
  3. del Mar López-Cabrales, María. "La mujer revolucionaria antes de la Revolución cubana: logros y vicisitudes" [The revolutionary woman before the Cuban revolution: achievements and vicissitudes] (in Spanish). Centro Virtual Cervantes. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  4. González, Julio César (1998). "Historia de la mujer en Cuba: del feminismo liberal a la acción política femenina" [History of the women of Cuba: from liberal feminism to women's political action]. In Piqueras Arenas, José Antonio (ed.). Diez nuevas miradas de historia de Cuba [Ten new looks at the history of Cuba] (in Spanish). Jaume I University. p. 285. ISBN 978-848-021-219-9.
  5. Alzola, Concepción Teresa (2009). Trayectoria de la mujer Cubana [Trajectory of the Cuban woman] (in Spanish). Ediciones Universal. p. 461. ISBN 978-159-388-127-6.
  6. Barcia, María del Carmen; Carr Parúas, Fernando; Leyva Collazo, Yahima; Ibarra, Jorge (2009). Mujeres al margen de la historia [Women on the margin of history] (in Spanish). Editorial de Ciencias Sociales. p. 251. ISBN 978-959-061-224-4.
  7. González Pagés, Julio César (2011). "Los 200 años de la prensa femenina en Cuba" [200 years of the women's press in Cuba]. La Jiribilla (in Spanish) (554). ISSN 2218-0869. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  8. Stoner, K. Lynn (30 April 1991). From the House to the Streets: The Cuban Woman's Movement for Legal Reform, 1898–1940. Duke University Press. pp. 102–106. ISBN 9780822311492. Retrieved 30 September 2016 – via Google Books.
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