Pilar Morlón de Menéndez

Pilar Morlón de Menéndez was a Cuban suffragist.

Biography

Menéndez was a founder member of the Club Femenino de Cuba (Cuban Women's Club) in 1918,[1] alongside Pilar Jorge de Tella, Mariblanca Sabas Alomá, Ofelia Domínguez Navarro and Hortensia Lamar.

Menéndez was president of the National Federation of Women's Associations. The federation organized the First National Women's Congress in April 1923 and she chaired the event at the Gran Teatro de La Habana in Havana.[1][2][3] She opened the event with a speech on "nationalism."[4] During the second congress in 1925, when she was again chair,[2][5] president Gerardo Machado made a promise to introduce women's suffrage in Cuba.

Menéndez was featured in the documentary En busca de un espacio by Marilyn Solaya in 2019.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "Un siglo de feminismo en Cuba". Cuba Información (in Spanish). 13 January 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2026.
  2. ^ a b Stoner, K. Lynn (1991). From the house to the streets : the Cuban woman's movement for legal reform, 1898-1940. Durham: Duke University Press. pp. 61, 242. ISBN 978-0-8223-1149-2.
  3. ^ Op. Cit: Boletín Del Centro de Investigaciones Históricas (in Spanish). Oficina de Publicaciones, Facultad de Humanidades, Departamento de Historia, Universidad de Puerto Rico. 2002. p. 297.
  4. ^ Davies, Catherine (1997). A Place in the Sun: Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Cuba. Zed Books. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-85649-542-4.
  5. ^ Pagés, Julio César González (2003). En busca de un espacio--historia de mujeres en Cuba (in Spanish). Ediciones de Ciencias Sociales. p. 64. ISBN 978-959-06-0542-0.
  6. ^ Robinson, Circles (30 June 2019). "New Documentary Revives the Legacy of Cuban Feminists". Havana Times. Retrieved 13 March 2026.
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