Miêtta Santiago
Maria Ernestina Carneiro Santiago de Souza (pseudonym, Miêtta Santiago; Varginha, 1903–1995) was a Brazilian writer, poet, lawyer, suffragist and feminist activist in support of women's rights. She was one of the early women in Brazil to fully exercise their political rights.
Also recorded as Maria Ernestina Carneiro Santiago Manso Pereira · Maria Ernestina Carneiro Santiago de Souza
Miêtta Santiago
- Born
- Miêtta Santiago was born in 1903. · Varginha.
- Died
- Miêtta Santiago died in 1995. · Rio de Janeiro.
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Occupation
- writer · lawyer · suffragist · suffragette · poet · politician
- Languages
- Portuguese
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Maria Ernestina Carneiro Santiago de Souza (pseudonym, Miêtta Santiago; Varginha, 1903–1995) was a Brazilian writer, poet, lawyer, suffragist and feminist activist in support of women's rights. She was one of the early women in Brazil to fully exercise their political rights.
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Biography
With Celina Guimarães Viana, Santiago was a pioneer in 1927 in the struggle for women's suffrage in Brazil. In 1928, Santiago challenged the constitutionality of the ban on women voting in Brazil, stating that it breached Article 70 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of the United States of Brazil, dated February 24, 1891, which was then in force.
Selected works
Selected works
• Namorada da Deus (1936) • Maria Ausência (1940) • Uma consciência unitária para a humanidade (1981) • As 7 poesias (1981)
Identity
Identity
Miêtta Santiago is recorded with the occupation suffragette. Recorded as writer, lawyer, suffragist, suffragette and poet. Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the headings Maria Ernestina Carneiro Santiago Manso Pereira and Maria Ernestina Carneiro Santiago de Souza. Her recorded language was Portuguese.
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1903
Miêtta Santiago born at Varginha.
1995
Miêtta Santiago died at Rio de Janeiro.
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Miêtta Santiago was born at Varginha.
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Miêtta Santiago died at Rio de Janeiro.
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Varginha.
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Rio de Janeiro.
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- 1.Paganini, Luiz Antônio. Do binário ao unitário: Miêtta Santiago e a transpoesia. Revista Graphos. 14. 2. 81–90. 2012. 1516-1536.
- 2."Pioneiras sufragistas brasileiras e a conquista do voto feminino", Ciência e Humanidades – Demografia (in Portuguese)
- 3.Paganini, Luiz Antônio; Paganini, Nilze (2012). "Do binário ao unitário: Miêtta Santiago e a transpoesia", Revista Graphos 14 (2): 81–90. ISSN 1516-1536 (in Portuguese)
- 4.Séguin, Elida (2002). Minorias E Grupos Vulneraveis: Uma Abordagem Juridica (in Portuguese)
- 5.União Nacional dos Estudantes. 80 anos de voto: todo poder as mulheres!.
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