Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia
{{Short description|Cuban writer, journalist, suffragist and feminist activist}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia
| pseudonym = Eugenio
| birth_date = {{birth date|1895|02|05|df=y}}
| death_date = {{death year and age|1923|1895}}
| death_place =
| occupation = {{Plainlist|
- Writer
- Journalist
}}
| language = Spanish
| spouse = {{Plainlist|
- Teodoro J. Creus Esther (divorced)
- Wenceslao de Villa Urrutia
| movement = Feminist
}}
}}
Aída Peláez Martínez (fl. 5 February 1895 – 1923), also known by her pseudonym Eugenio,{{Cite book |last=Alzola |first=Concepción Teresa |title=Trayectoria de la mujer Cubana |trans-title=Trajectory of the Cuban woman |year=2009 |publisher=Ediciones Universal |isbn=978-159-388-127-6 |page=461 |language=Spanish}} was a Cuban writer, journalist, suffragist, and feminist activist.{{Cite book|last=Uribe Muñoz|first=Bernardo|title=Mujeres de América |trans-title=Women of America |year=1934 |publisher=Imprenta Oficial |page=460 |language=Spanish}} She was one of the architects of Cuba's women's suffrage campaign of the 1910s, along with Digna Collazo and Amalia Mallén.{{Cite book |title=Album del cincuentenario de la Asociación de Reporters de La Habana 1902–1952 |trans-title=Album of the 50th anniversary of the Havana Reporters' Association 1902–1952 |year=1952 |publisher=Havana Reporters' Association |page=440 |language=Spanish}} To this end, she participated in various pro-feminist organizations.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tn8s-vvxanoC&pg=PA89 |last1=Stoner |first1=K. Lynn |last2=Serrano Pérez |first2=Luís Hipólito |title=Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography |year=2000 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-084-202-643-7 |page=89 |access-date=30 September 2016 |via=Google Books}}
Life and work
She was the daughter of Rodolfo Manuel José Jesús Peláez y Hernández and Adela María Aída de la Caridad Martínez y Díaz Morales, and began to write at an early age. After her father forbade her to continue such work, she used the pseudonym Eugenio at the request of her mother.
Aída was one of the pioneers of the feminist movement in Cuba.{{Cite book |last=Remos y Rubio |first=Juan José |title=Modernismo |year=1945 |publisher=Cárdenas y compañía |language=Spanish}} She participated in the Continental Women's Union, an organization which took a leading role,{{Cite journal |title=Boletín oficial de la Secretaría de Estado de la República de Cuba |trans-title=Official bulletin of the Secretary of State of the Republic of Cuba |publisher=Secretary of State of the Republic of Cuba |year=1938 |number=250 |volume=25 |language=Spanish}} and served in the National Suffragist Party as its vice president{{Cite book |last=González Pagés |first=Julio César |title=En busca de un espacio: Historia de mujeres en Cuba |trans-title=In search of a space: History of women in Cuba |year=2003 |publisher=Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Cubano del Libro |isbn=978-959-060-542-0 |page=159 |language=Spanish}} and representative in the First Women's Congress (1923). She also founded the Panamerican Round Table and Women's House of America.{{Cite book |last=Valdés |first=Zoé |title=La Ficción Fidel |trans-title=The Fidel Fiction |year=2008 |publisher=Editorial Planeta |isbn=978-840-807-859-3 |page=375 |language=Spanish}} She was the "first woman to be counted as a member of the Governing Board of the Athenaeum of Havana, having been re-elected to it three times."
In 1923, she published "Necesidad del voto para la mujer" (Necessity of the vote for women) in the magazines El Sufragista{{Cite journal |last=González Pagés |first=Julio César |title=Los 200 años de la prensa femenina en Cuba |trans-title=200 years of the women's press in Cuba |year=2011 |number=554 |issn=2218-0869 |url=http://www.lajiribilla.cu/2011/n554_12/554_30.html |journal=La Jiribilla |language=Spanish |access-date=29 September 2016}} and El sufragio femenino. Furthermore, she was editor of the periodicals La discusión, La Mujer (together with Domitila García de Coronado and Isabel Margarita Ordetx), de Atlántida (together with Clara Moreda), and the literary-cultural magazine Ideal which she founded in 1919.{{Cite web |last=Pacheco Valera |first=Irina |title=Mujeres destacadas en el tejido social de la República |trans-title=Prominent women in the social fabric of the Republic |url=http://www.cubarte.cult.cu/periodico/opinion/mujeres-destacadas-en-el-tejido-social-de-la-republica/24199.html |language=Spanish |date=8 March 2013 |work=Cubarte |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313110804/http://www.cubarte.cult.cu/periodico/opinion/mujeres-destacadas-en-el-tejido-social-de-la-republica/24199.html |archive-date=13 March 2013 |access-date=29 September 2016}}{{Cite web |title=Diccionario de la Literatura Cubana |trans-title=Dictionary of Cuban Literature |url=http://www.lluisvives.com/servlet/SirveObras/ill/02494907545027618976613/254i.htm |publisher=Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes |language=Spanish |access-date=29 September 2016 |archive-date=11 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140711145110/http://www.lluisvives.com/servlet/SirveObras/ill/02494907545027618976613/254i.htm |url-status=dead }}
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Category:20th-century Cuban women writers