Rare books and manuscripts
There are a few items at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library from Latin American authors, writers, educators, and activists that have played a crucial role in the enhancement of feminism, women rights, and political consciousness in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Rare books and manuscripts
- [Notebook] [manuscript] byCall Number: Post-1650 MS 0134Publication Date: 1947?Undated (but written in a 1947 date book) ms. of Gabriela Mistral containing notes, in Spanish, in pencil on approx. one third of 210 leaves.
Conselhos á minha filha by
Call Number: 305.40981 AU45C1987Publication Date: [S.l. : s.n.], 1845]Nísia Floresta Brasileira Augusta is considered one of the pioneer feminists in Brazil in the 19th Century. She was a teacher and a writer and she published several works advocating for educating women and girls.- List of books for the first six grades byCall Number: S.011.62 P983LPublication Date: Urbana, Ill. : Urbana City Council of Parent-Teacher Associations, 1927Bertha Lutz was the principal leader of the Brazilian woman's suffrage movement. Lutz was educated first in Brazil and then in the Sorbonne, in France, in 1918. Later, in 1933, she earned a degree from the Faculty of Law in Rio de Janeiro. She was also a prominent figure in Pan American feminism.
- Eva Perón señala el camino del civismo a la mujer argentina byCall Number: IUB01341Publication Date: [Argentina : s.n.], 1950.Eva Perón's speech delivered on May 4th, 1950, on occasion of a lunch in her honor organized by the Peronista Feminine Party in Buenos Aires
La Aljaba by Call Number: Q. 305.405 ALPublication Date: Buenos Aires : [s.n.], 1830-1831.La Aljaba is considered the first feminine magazine edited in Agentina. It was founded by the writer Petrona Rosende de Sierra and it has contributed to expand the cultural and social life of women in the independence's afterwards. The Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the UIUC has several volumes of the magazine edited in 1830.
