BRAZILIAN WOMEN

“MAKING HISTORY”

By Alexsandra Lins

16TH CENTURY

MADALENA CARAMURU  Native Moema and

Portuguese Diogo Álvares Corrêa

1st literate woman

on March 26, 1561: Padre Manoel da Nobrega.

17TH CENTURY

MARIA ÚRSULA DE ABREU E LENCASTRE

Rio de Janeiro, 1682

Lisboa, November 12th, 1700.

Afonso Teixeira Arraes de Melo,1714.

18TH CENTURY

MARIA QUITÉRIA (1792-1853)

• 1822, José Cordeiro de Medeiros, “Soldier Medeiros".

• 1823, battle of Itapuã.

• 1996, Patroness of Supplementary group of Officers of the Brazilian Army, one of the few Army divisions that accept female members.

19TH CENTURY

CHIQUINHA GONZAGA (1847-1935)

First songwriter of Brazilian popular music.

Author of two thousand compositions.

Abolitionist.

BERTHA LUTZ (1894-1976) Sao Paulo on August 2,

1894, daughter of the English nurse Amy Fowler and scientist and pioneer of tropical medicine Adolfo Lutz.

One of the pioneers of the struggle for women's suffrage and equal rights between men and women in the country

20TH CENTURY

RACHEL DE QUEIROZ (1910 - 2003) Fortaleza , 1910.

The first woman to join the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1977.

Won many awards of the best write of the year in Brasil and Portugal.

LUISLINDA VALOIS SANTOS (1943)

First black woman to become a judge and federal judge in Brazil.

In 1993, the first sentence against racism.

Ambassador of Peace in Vienna – Austria.

“I do not take into account if I am the first or the last black woman to be a judge in Brazil. For me, what matters is having the courage to say what needs to be said in time”.

Luislinda Valois