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María Luisa Dolz
María Luisa Dolz
Born	María Luisa Dolz y Arango; 4 October 1854; Havana, Cuba
Died	27 May 1928 (aged 73); Marianao, Cuba
Occupation	Writer, essayist, professor, feminist activist
Language	Spanish
Genre	Essay
Literary movement	Feminism
Notable work	Feminismo, injusticia de los Códigos (speech, 20 December 1894)

María Luisa Dolz y Arango (4 October 1854 – 27 May 1928) was a Cuban writer, essayist, educator, and feminist activist.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Life and work

The daughter of Juan Norberto Dolz and María de la Luz Arango, María Luisa Dolz became an elementary school teacher in 1876 and a higher primary school teacher in 1877. She went on to earn a bachelor's degree in 1888, and graduated with a licentiate in Natural Sciences on 16 October 1890.^[6] In 1899 she completed her doctorate in the same specialty at the University of Havana, becoming the first woman to attain that degree in Cuba.^[2]^[6]

She was one of the first women to be included in secondary education at the Colegio Isabel la Católica, a level which would permit them access to a university.^[7] The school was later renamed Colegio María Luisa Dolz in her honor.^[4]

Activism

Together with Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and Marta Abreu, she was one of the most prominent Cuban women of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in both intellectual and social circles.^[2] She was a pioneer in the feminist field in her country,^[8]^[9] and undertook the defense of women's rights, specifically the right to education.^[1]^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b Salas Servando, Matilde. "María Luisa Dolz, una educadora y feminista habanera" [María Luisa Dolz, a Havanan educator and feminist] (in Spanish). Somos Jóvenes Digital. Archived from the original on 16 August 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c Depestre Catony, Leonardo (7 October 2008). "María Luisa Dolz: algo más que una educadora" [María Luisa Dolz: something more than an educator] (in Spanish). Cubaliteraria. Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
^ Mesa Rodríguez, Manuel Isaías (1954). María Luisa Dolz, educadora y ciudadana: discurso leído en la sesión pública celebrada el día 27 mayo de 1954 en conmemoración del centenario del nacimiento de la ilustre cubana [María Luisa Dolz, educator and citizen: speech read in the public session celebrating the day 27 May 1954 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of that illustrious Cuban] (in Spanish). Imprenta El Siglo XX. p. 20.
^ ^a ^b 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. 36–37. ISBN 9780822311492. Retrieved 4 October 2016 – via Google Books.
^ Aguayo, Alfredo Miguel (1937). Tres grandes educadores cubanos: Varona, Echemendía, María Luisa Dolz [Three great Cuban educators: Varona, Echemendía, María Luisa Dolz] (in Spanish). Cultural. p. 64.
^ ^a ^b "María Luisa Dolz". Encaribe (in Spanish). Dominican Republic and Cátedra Juan Bosch, University of Havana. 7 October 2008. Archived from the original on 16 August 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
^ Morilla Palacios, Ana (2007). "Mercedes Matamoros y Safo de Lesbos" (PDF). Foro de Educación (in Spanish) (9): 279–296. ISSN 1698-7799. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
^ Vitale, Luis (1999). Cuba: de la colonia a la revolución [Cuba: from the colony to the revolution] (in Spanish). RIL Editores. p. 197. ISBN 978-956-284-092-7.
^ Vinat de la Mata, Raquel (1993). "El tema femenino en el discurso social del siglo XIX en Cuba" [Women's issues in the social discourse of the 19th century in Cuba]. Revista de historia (in Spanish) (7–8). Contrastes: 19–30. ISSN 1989-8339. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
^ Vasallo Barrueta, Norma (1995). "La evolución del tema mujer en Cuba" [The evolution of women's issues in Cuba] (PDF). Revista Cubana de Psicología (in Spanish). 12 (1–2): 65–75. Retrieved 4 October 2016.