Matilde Carranza

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Francisca Matilde Carranza Volío, better known as Matilde Carranza[1] was a Costa Rican activist and teacher. She was the first Costa Rican woman to receive a doctorate in philosophy.[2]

Life[edit]

Matilde Carranza was born on January 6, 1892, in San José, Costa Rica and baptized on 7 February 1892. Her parents were Francisco Carranza and Petronila Volío.[3] She was one of the leaders of the teacher's strike of 1919[1] against the labor policies of President Federico Tinoco Granados,[4] which culminated in setting fire to the government newspaper office, La Información.[5] The strike, led by Ángela Acuña Braun included teachers like Ana Rosa Chacón, Lilia González, Carmen Lyra, Victoria Madrigal, Vitalia Madrigal, Esther De Mezerville, María Ortiz, Teodora Ortiz, Ester Silva and Andrea Venegas.[6] In 1920, she went with Lyra and González to Europe to learn the Montessori education model so that it could be implemented in Costa Rica.[7] From the early 1930s, Carranza was furthering her studies in the United States,[8] and continued for almost a decade[9] graduating with a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin in 1940.[10] Her graduate thesis, El pueblo visto a través de los Episodios nacionales was published in Costa Rica in 1942.[11] After graduation, she began teaching at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Fischel, Astrid (1992). El uso ingenioso de la ideología en Costa Rica (in Spanish) (1 ed.). San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia. p. 148. ISBN 978-9977-64-666-4.
  2. ^ Stephanie Rivera Berruz (12 December 2018). "Latin American Feminism". Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Francisca Matilde". Family Search (in Spanish). San José, Costa Rica: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 7 February 1892. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Las maestras". hcostarica (in Spanish). Historia Costa Rica. Retrieved 13 August 2015.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ Rodríguez S, Eugenia. "Participación Socio¬política Femenina en Costa Rica (1890 – 1952)" (in Spanish). San José, Costa Rica: Universidad de Costa Rica. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  6. ^ Solano Arias, Marta E. (January–June 2014). "A 90 años de la fundación de la Liga Feminista Costarricense: los derechos políticos" (PDF). Revista Derecho Electoral (in Spanish) (17). San José, Costa Rica: Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones República de Costa Rica: 357–375. ISSN 1659-2069. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  7. ^ Chavarría González, María Celina (November 2012). "Historiando a Montessori: Desde el Feminismo y Socialismo Utópico Hacia su Compromiso Como Pionera del Holismo" (PDF). Revista Electrónica "Actualidades Investigativas en Educación" (in Spanish). 12 (3). San Pedro de Montes de Oca, Costa Rica: Universidad de Costa Rica: 1–33. ISSN 1409-4703. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  8. ^ "El Club Cervantes". Mocavo. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin. 1931. p. 475. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  9. ^ "Minutes of the regular meeting of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin". University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin. 14 October 1939. Retrieved 15 August 2015. That "Matilde Carranza be appointed graduate assistant in Spanish from October 2, 1939 to the close of the first semester of 1939–40; salary ,200 for the period; charge to. graduate assistants
  10. ^ Soto-Ramírez, Marybel (July–December 2014). "Prada Ortiz, Grace. (2013). Matilde Carranza, Vera Yamnuni y Ana Alfaro, en el pensamiento filosófico costarricense. Costa Rica: EUNA". Temas de nuestra américa (in Spanish). 30 (56). Costa Rica: Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica: 133–136. ISSN 0259-2339. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  11. ^ El pueblo visto a través de los Episodios nacionales. OCLC 651381007 – via WorldCat.
  12. ^ "Madame Carranza to Speak Monday". Greencastle, Indiana: The Daily Banner. 16 March 1944. p. 1. Retrieved 15 August 2015.[permanent dead link]

Further reading[edit]

  • "Noticia Biografica". Revista de los Archivos Nacionales. 5. Costa Rica: Archivo Nacional: 4–6. 1941.
  • Ortiz, Grace Prada (2005). El pensamiento filosófico desde las mujeres: Matilde Carranza, Vera Yamuni y Ana Alfaro (1 ed.). Heredia, Costa Rica: Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad Nacional. ISBN 978-9968-26-021-3.