Vote for whoever has a gender agenda, but vote and honor the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rosario Castellanos, a pioneer of Mexican feminism.
Rosario Castellanos was born on May 25, 1925, in Mexico City. Although it is said that she was from Chiapas, because she spent much of her life in Comitán, Chiapas, as that’s where her family was from. She was a pioneer of feminism, as well as a Mexican diplomat, writer, teacher, poet, and essayist.
In Mexico, she is an intellectual pioneer of Mexican women’s liberation. In 1964, in a speech at the opening of the National Museum of Anthropology and History in Mexico City, she denounced injustice against women for the first time. She spoke of their undignified treatment and the right to equal education. She also defended all groups, such as indigenous women and men, who are not heard.
Rosario agrees with what Sor Juana had said three centuries earlier: that the human community does not help women achieve their fulfillment. Castellanos also stands out for giving a voice to the indigenous peoples of Mexico. In addition to the oppression of women, she addresses issues such as social injustice and cultural identity.
Her works include the novel “Balón Canán,” published in 1957, which deals with the discrimination and exploitation of indigenous peoples and childhood from a feminist perspective.
In her essay “Woman Who Knows Latin…”, published in 1973, she reflects on the fact that women have been excluded from knowledge, power, and cultural creation. She denounces the subordination of women.
During her career, she was also a professor of Latin American literature at UNAM and a columnist for the newspaper Excélsior.
In 1971, she was appointed ambassador to Israel and died in that country on August 7, 1974, reportedly from an electric shock while handling a lamp.
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