Maria Werneck de Castro
Maria Werneck de Castro | |
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Born | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | October 8, 1909
Died | April 6, 1994 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | (aged 84)
Occupation | Attorney |
Spouse | Luis Werneck de Castro |
Maria Morais Werneck de Castro (Rio de Janeiro, 1909 - Rio de Janeiro, 1993) was a Brazilian lawyer, militant communist, and feminist.[1]
Life
[edit]Castro was born on October 8, 1909[2] in barrio Laranjeiras, the daughter of attorney Justo de Moraes and Herminia Cresta Mendes de Moraes. Her paternal grandfather was Luiz Mendes de Moraes , who was Minister of War in 1909. In school, she studied law. She married the communist militant Luis Werneck de Castro, also a lawyer.[3]
Castro was a communist activist who fought for women's suffrage rights, from 1930 onwards. She participated in the Federación Brasileña por el Progreso Femenino, and in the Liga Antifascista. Castro was a close friend of Luís Carlos Prestes and his sister, Clotilde Prestes, as well as a companion to Nise da Silveira and Olga Benário Prestes, the latter having been accused of being one of the leaders of the Communist Revolt of 1935.[4] With Mary Mercio and Eugênia Álvaro Moreyra, she co-founded the União Feminina do Brasil ,[5] also serving as its director.[6] Castro went into exile in Argentina. She became a member of the Brazilian Communist Party in 1947, serving in the Movimiento Unitario de los Trabajadores e Intelectuales. Towards the end of her life, Castro became devoted to education, being a professor of Portuguese and history.
Castro died on April 6, 1994, in Rio de Janeiro.[2]
Selected works
[edit]- Aquarelas : espécies vegetais em extinção (1987) (in Portuguese)
- Sala 4 : primeira prisão política feminina (1988) (in Portuguese)
- No tempo dos barões : histórias do apogeu e decadência de uma família fluminense no ciclo do café (with Moacir Werneck de Castro; 2004) (in Portuguese)
- Natureza viva : memórias, carreira e obra de uma pioneira do desenho científico no Brasil (with Moacir Werneck de Castro; 2004) (in Portuguese)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Schumaher & Brazil 2000, p. 567.
- ^ a b "Castro, Maria Morais Werneck de". Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^ Executive Secretariat 1987, p. 56.
- ^ Assunção 2007, p. 159.
- ^ Dulles 2010, p. 19.
- ^ Dulles 2014, p. 69.
Bibliography
[edit]- Assunção, Moacir (2007). Luiz Carlos Prestes: um revolucionário brasileiro (in Portuguese). Lazuli Editora. ISBN 978-85-04-01009-1.
- Dulles, John W. F. (3 July 2014). Brazilian Communism, 1935-1945: Repression during World Upheaval. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-77166-6.
- Dulles, John W. F. (5 July 2010). Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader: Volume I: The Years 1914-1960. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78936-4.
- Executive Secretariat (1987). Tricontinental. Executive Secretariat of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
- Schumaher, Schuma; Brazil, Erico Vital (2000). Dicion‡rio mulheres do Brasil: de 1500 até a atualidade : com 270 ilustrações (in Portuguese). J. Zahar. ISBN 978-85-7110-573-7.