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Teacher, feminist, journalist & anarchist writer.
Born in Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil, May 16, 1887; died in Rio de Janeiro.
Involved in social thought & anticlerical ideas at an early age, she founded & taught at the Normal School of Barbacena, in 1904. She then began working with the women of the region, working for the construction of housing for the homeless population in the city. She founded the League Against Illiteracy, & as an educator, adopted the libertarian pedagogy of Francisco Ferrer.Moving to São Paulo, Brazil, she taught & collaborated in the Brazilian & international labor & anarchist press. In the periodical the "A Plebe escreveu" (The Common People) she mainly wrote on pedagogy & education. An active lecturer, she spoke on education, the rights of the women, free love & antimilitarism, becoming known not only in Brazil, but also in Uruguay & Argentina.
"Que poetas subam com seus instrumentos para cantar a beleza, espreitando as rosadas nuvens: é talvez sua missão. Porém, nós, pensadores, temos que descer até o povo rude da alta ou da baixa sociedade, pois todos são iguais... para fazê-los dar um passo mais em sua elevação espiritual."
— Maria Lacerda de Moura
In February of 1923 she launched the magazine "Renascença" (Renaissance), a cultural publication informed in the anarchist movement & between progressive sectors & free-thinkers.
Maria Lacerda de Moura is considered one of the main pioneers of the Brazilian feminist movement & was one of the few involved with the labor movement.
She died in Rio de Janeiro in 1945. Books by her include Em torno da educação; A Mulher Moderna e o seu papel na Sociedade Atual; Amai e não vos Multipliqueis; Han Ryner e o Amor Plural.
"A mulher tem sido sempre enganada miserávelmente.(...)
Rica ou pobre, culta ou ignorante, por toda parte a vida
da mulher é o mesmo calvário silêncioso e anônimo que os
homens não compreendem por que o egoísmo masculino foi
cultivado pela escravidão feminina".— Maria Lacerda de Moura
The CIRA lists among its holdings:
LACERDA DE MOURA, Maria. De Amundsen a Del Prete. São Paulo: O Combate, 1928. 89 p. (photoc.) – Yp 9 LACERDA DE MOURA, Maria. Serviço militar obrigatorio para a mulher? Recuso-me! Denuncio! São Paulo: A Sementeira, 1933. 37 p. (photoc.). – Br 9286 p
http://www.agrorede.org.br/ceca/edgar/MOURA.html
Projeto Memória de Leitura,
(Mirror of this site, no longer online): http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ArchiveMirror/marialacerda.htmSee also LEITE, Miriam Lifchitz, A Outra Face do Feminismo: Maria Lacerda Moura (São Paulo, Ática,1984).
See Liane Peters Richter, 22/12/98, dissertacao de mestrado em Historia na Unicamp, intitulada "Emancipacao feminina e moral libertaria: Emma Goldman e Maria Lacerda de Moura".
(Mirrored copy, no longer online): http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ArchiveMirror/hist112.txt
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