Herminia Brumana

• Name — Herminia Brumana • Other Names — *La Maestra Ciruela • Pesao Grúa • Zúlex • Birth Name — Herminia Catalina Brumana • Born — 12 September 1897 • Birthplace — Pigüé, Argentina • Died — 9 January 1954 • Place of death — Buenos Aires, Argentina • Employer — *José Manuel Estrada Normal School • Mundo Argentino • El Hogar • La Nación • Organization — Argentine Writers Society • Spouse — Juan Antonio Solari

Brumana was born on 12 September 1897 in Pigüé to an Italian Argentine family.

Brumana was an anarchist, socialist and public intellectual. As an anarchist, Brumana called feminists "bourgeois" and objected to women's political rights on the grounds that politics would compromise femininity. She claimed to support strong and capable women but spurned "feminists" and considered it an ideology that promoted a "masculinisation" of women. She argued that instead of looking for political influence in a ballot, women should focus on moulding the next generations of male policymakers in their homes. She later began to question the stereotyped images of women and hegemonic representations of gender.

Brumana wrote nine books and eleven plays, three of them published. She wrote for Mundo Argentino, El Hogar and La Nación, among other periodicals. Her pseudonyms included La Maestra Ciruela, Pesao Grúa and Zúlex. Brumana was also a member of the Argentine Writers Society.

• Palabritas, 1918. • Cabezas de mujeres, 1923 • Mosaico, 1929 • La grúa, 1931 • Tizas de colores, 1932 • Cartas a las mujeres argentinas, 1936 • Nuestro Hombre, 1939 • Me llamo niebla, 1946 • A Buenos Aires le falta una calle, 1953

• La protagonista olvidada, 1933