Maria Werneck de Castro
{{short description|Brazilian lawyer}}
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| birth_place = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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| death_place = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Maria Morais Werneck de Castro (Rio de Janeiro, 1909 - Rio de Janeiro, 1993) was a Brazilian lawyer, militant communist, and feminist.{{sfn|Schumaher|Brazil|2000|p=567}}
Life
Castro was born on October 8, 1909{{cite web |title=Castro, Maria Morais Werneck de |url=http://www.fgv.br/cpdoc/acervo/dicionarios/verbete-biografico/castro-maria-morais-werneck-de |website=Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil |access-date=3 August 2019 |language=pt-br}} in barrio Laranjeiras, the daughter of attorney Justo de Moraes and Herminia Cresta Mendes de Moraes. Her paternal grandfather was {{ill|Luiz Mendes de Moraes|pt}}, who was Minister of War in 1909. In school, she studied law. She married the communist militant Luis Werneck de Castro, also a lawyer.{{sfn|Executive Secretariat|1987|p=56}}
Castro was a communist activist who fought for women's suffrage rights, from 1930 onwards. She participated in the Federación Brasileña por el Progreso Femenino, and in the Liga Antifascista. Castro was a close friend of Luís Carlos Prestes and his sister, Clotilde Prestes, as well as a companion to Nise da Silveira and Olga Benário Prestes, the latter having been accused of being one of the leaders of the Communist Revolt of 1935.{{sfn|Assunção|2007|p=159}} With Mary Mercio and Eugênia Álvaro Moreyra, she co-founded the {{ill|União Feminina do Brasil|pt}},{{sfn|Dulles|2010|p=19}} also serving as its director.{{sfn|Dulles|2014|p=69}} Castro went into exile in Argentina. She became a member of the Brazilian Communist Party in 1947, serving in the Movimiento Unitario de los Trabajadores e Intelectuales. Towards the end of her life, Castro became devoted to education, being a professor of Portuguese and history.
Selected works
- Aquarelas : espécies vegetais em extinção (1987) {{in lang|pt}}
- Sala 4 : primeira prisão política feminina (1988) {{in lang|pt}}
- No tempo dos barões : histórias do apogeu e decadência de uma família fluminense no ciclo do café (with Moacir Werneck de Castro; 2004) {{in lang|pt}}
- Natureza viva : memórias, carreira e obra de uma pioneira do desenho científico no Brasil (with Moacir Werneck de Castro; 2004) {{in lang|pt}}
See also
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|last=Assunção|first=Moacir|title=Luiz Carlos Prestes: um revolucionário brasileiro|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yt1HAAAAYAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Lazuli Editora|language=Portuguese|isbn=978-85-04-01009-1}}
- {{cite book|last=Dulles|first=John W. F.|title=Brazilian Communism, 1935-1945: Repression during World Upheaval|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GHj8AwAAQBAJ&pg=PP69|date=3 July 2014|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0-292-77166-6}}
- {{cite book|last=Dulles|first=John W. F.|title=Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader: Volume I: The Years 1914-1960|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=74L8AwAAQBAJ&pg=PR19|date=5 July 2010|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0-292-78936-4}}
- {{cite book|author=Executive Secretariat|title=Tricontinental|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HENIAAAAYAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Executive Secretariat of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America}}
- {{cite book|last1=Schumaher|first1=Schuma|last2=Brazil|first2=Erico Vital|title=Dicion‡rio mulheres do Brasil: de 1500 até a atualidade : com 270 ilustrações|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5GmWs7KHLycC|year=2000|publisher=J. Zahar|language=Portuguese|isbn=978-85-7110-573-7}}
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