Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane
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| name = Dr. Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane
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| birth_name = Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1867|04|19}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1954|06|04|1867|04|19}}
| birth_place = Junín, Argentina
| death_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina
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| spouse = Dr. Manuel Dellepiane
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| children = Seven
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| alma_mater = University of Buenos Aires
| other_names = Physician, Suffragist
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Dr. Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane (née Elvira Rawson; April 19, 1867{{spaced ndash}}June 4, 1954) was an Argentine militant suffragist{{cite book|last=Armus|first=Diego|title=The Ailing City: Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870–1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J1DE0q62bdsC&pg=PA162|accessdate=26 April 2013|date=8 July 2011|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-5012-5|pages=162–}} and the second woman to receive a medical degree in Argentina.{{cite web|title=Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane (1867-1954)|url=http://www.library.nd.edu/rarebooks/collections/manuscripts/latin_american/sc_history/dellepiane.shtml|publisher=University of Notre Dame}} She was an activist for women's and children's rights and was known as "the mother of women's rights in Argentina".{{Cite web|url=http://www.library.nd.edu/rarebooks/collections/manuscripts/latin_american/sc_history/dellepiane.shtml|title=Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane (1867-1954)|accessdate=27 April 2013|publisher=University of Notre Dame Hesburg libraries}}
Early years
Rawson de Dellepiane was born in Junín, Argentina to Colonel {{Interlanguage link|Juan de Dios Rawson|es}}. She belonged to the renowned family of dean Gregorio Funes who was considered the father of history of Argentina. She was educated in Buenos Aires, receiving her university doctoral degree in medicine on 29 September 1892 from the University of Buenos Aires. Earlier to this, she had obtained a certificate from the Ecole Normale de Mendoza in teaching after that she had worked as a teacher for one year before starting her medical education.{{Cite web|url=http://divulgacion.famaf.unc.edu.ar/?q=ameghino/rawson-de-dellepiane-elvira|title=Dellepiane Rawson, Elvira|language=Spanish|accessdate=27 April 2013|publisher=Faculty of Mathematics Physics and Astronomy, University of Cordoba|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716110923/http://divulgacion.famaf.unc.edu.ar/?q=ameghino%2Frawson-de-dellepiane-elvira|archive-date=16 July 2014|url-status=dead}} A year earlier, she married Doctor Manuel Dellepiane.{{cite book|last=Parker|first=William Belmont|title=Argentines of Today|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_YxNlAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=26 April 2013|edition=Public domain|year=1920|publisher=Hispanic Society of America|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_YxNlAAAAMAAJ/page/n467 943]–}} Her doctoral thesis, which received the acclaim of {{Interlanguage link|Gregorio Aráoz Alfaro|es}}, a renowned physician of Argentina, was on "Notes on hygiene in women". She had seven children.
Career
After her graduation she started practicing medicine. She devotedly promoted numerous projects, which included the establishment of the first school cafeteria in the country. In 1919, she was one of the founders of the Association Pro-Derechos de la Mujer. From 1920 to 1922, she served as professor of hygiene and child care at the National Home for Military Orphans (1920–22). In 1916, she was the organizer and director of the first vacation home for chronically ill women teachers, the Vacation Colony in Uspallata. During the period of 1907 to 1918, she was a medical inspector for the National Department of Hygiene (Departamento Nacional de Higiene). She served on the National Council of Education (Consejo Nacional de Educación) (1919–34).{{cite book|last=Lavrín|first=Asunción|title=Latin American women: historical perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZesYBntxhqgC&pg=PA252|accessdate=26 April 2013|year=1978|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-20309-1|pages=252–}}
In her commitment towards promoting rights of women in Argentina, she established the Centro Feminista in 1905, which was subsequently renamed to the Centro Juana Manuela Gorriti. In 1910, she pioneered the movement to establish civil code for women. In 1919, she established the Asociación Pro-Derechos de la Mujer; Alfonsina Storni, the Argentine writer and many others were her associates in this effort.
Among her career achievements are establishing the National Women's Council, participation in the First International Women's Congress in 1910, which was held in Buenos Aires,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nInCymWsllwC&pg=PA164 |title=Sex and Sexuality in Latin America |first1=Daniel |last1=Balderston |last2=Guy |first2=Donna Jay |isbn=9780814712900 |year=1997 |publisher=New York University Press }} promoting subjects of Sociology, Law and Education, establishing the Maternal Center, known as "Juana Gorriti" (maternity home for unwed mothers) in 1910, founding the Association for Women-rights in 1919, making the practice of a "glass of milk" compulsory in schools, and writing many reports on the status and condition of women, and school households.
References
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External links
- {{Find a Grave|7569583}}
- [https://doodles.google/doodle/dr-elvira-rawsons-155th-birthday/ Dr. Elvira Rawson's 155th birthday] at Google Doodle.
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Category:Argentine women physicians
Category:People from Junín, Buenos Aires
Category:Burials at La Recoleta Cemetery
Category:Argentine suffragists
Category:Argentine people of American descent
Category:University of Buenos Aires alumni
Category:International Congress of Women people
Category:20th-century Argentine physicians
Category:19th-century Argentine physicians