Matilde Carranza

Francisca Matilde Carranza Volío, better known as Matilde Carranza{{cite book|last1=Fischel|first1=Astrid|title=El uso ingenioso de la ideología en Costa Rica|date=1992|publisher=Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia|location=San José, Costa Rica|isbn=978-9977-64-666-4|page=148|edition=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rgPDnGusrcQC&pg=PA148|language=Spanish}} was a Costa Rican activist and teacher. She was the first Costa Rican woman to receive a doctorate in philosophy.{{cite web | author=Stephanie Rivera Berruz | title=Latin American Feminism | date=12 December 2018 | url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-latin-america/ | access-date= 12 July 2021}}

Life

Matilde Carranza was born on January 6, 1892, in San José, Costa Rica and baptized on 7 February 1892. Her parents were Francisco Carranza and Petronila Volío.{{cite web|title=Francisca Matilde|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NQK6-LLV|website=Family Search|publisher=Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|accessdate=15 August 2015|location=San José, Costa Rica|language=Spanish|date=7 February 1892}} She was one of the leaders of the teacher's strike of 1919 against the labor policies of President Federico Tinoco Granados,{{cite web|title=Las maestras |url=http://www.hcostarica.fcs.ucr.ac.cr/contenidos/tinoco/html/33.htm |website=hcostarica |publisher=Historia Costa Rica |accessdate=13 August 2015 |language=Spanish }}{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} which culminated in setting fire to the government newspaper office, La Información.{{cite web|last1=Rodríguez S|first1=Eugenia|title=Participación Socio¬política Femenina en Costa Rica (1890 – 1952)|url=http://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/dialogos/article/viewFile/6254/5956|publisher=Universidad de Costa Rica|accessdate=13 August 2015|location=San José, Costa Rica|language=Spanish}} The strike, led by Ángela Acuña Braun included teachers like Ana Rosa Chacón, Lilia González, Carmen Lyra, Victoria Madrigal, Vitalia Madrigal, Esther De Mezerville, María Ortiz, Teodora Ortiz, Ester Silva and Andrea Venegas.{{cite journal|last1=Solano Arias|first1=Marta E.|title=A 90 años de la fundación de la Liga Feminista Costarricense: los derechos políticos|journal=Revista Derecho Electoral|date=January–June 2014|issue= 17|pages=357–375|url=http://www.tse.go.cr/revista/art/17/solano_arias.pdf|accessdate=2 August 2015|publisher=Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones República de Costa Rica|location=San José, Costa Rica|language=Spanish|issn=1659-2069}} In 1920, she went with Lyra and González to Europe to learn the Montessori education model so that it could be implemented in Costa Rica.{{cite journal|last1=Chavarría González|first1=María Celina|title=Historiando a Montessori: Desde el Feminismo y Socialismo Utópico Hacia su Compromiso Como Pionera del Holismo|journal=Revista Electrónica "Actualidades Investigativas en Educación"|date=November 2012|volume= 12|issue= 3|pages=1–33|url=http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/447/44723985010.pdf|accessdate=15 August 2015|publisher=Universidad de Costa Rica|location=San Pedro de Montes de Oca, Costa Rica|language=Spanish|issn=1409-4703}} From the early 1930s, Carranza was furthering her studies in the United States,{{cite web|title=El Club Cervantes|url=http://www.mocavo.com/University-of-Wisconsin-1931-Madison-Wi/285212/479|website=Mocavo|publisher=University of Wisconsin|accessdate=15 August 2015|location=Madison, Wisconsin|pages=475|date=1931}} and continued for almost a decade{{cite web|title=Minutes of the regular meeting of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UWBoR/UWBoR-idx?type=div&did=UWBoR.Oct141939.i0023&isize=text|website=University of Wisconsin Digital Collections|publisher=University of Wisconsin|accessdate=15 August 2015|location=Madison, Wisconsin|date=14 October 1939|quote=That "Matilde Carranza be appointed graduate assistant in Spanish from October 2, 1939 to the close of the first semester of 1939–40; salary ,200 for the period; charge to. graduate assistants}} graduating with a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin in 1940.{{cite journal|last1=Soto-Ramírez|first1=Marybel|title=Prada Ortiz, Grace. (2013). Matilde Carranza, Vera Yamnuni y Ana Alfaro, en el pensamiento filosófico costarricense. Costa Rica: EUNA|journal=Temas de nuestra américa|date=July–December 2014|volume= 30|issue= 56|pages=133–136|url=http://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/tdna/article/download/6423/6483|accessdate=15 August 2015|publisher=Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica|location=Costa Rica|language=Spanish|issn=0259-2339}} Her graduate thesis, El pueblo visto a través de los Episodios nacionales was published in Costa Rica in 1942.{{cite book|title=El pueblo visto a través de los Episodios nacionales|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/651381007|via=WorldCat| oclc=651381007 }} After graduation, she began teaching at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana.{{cite news|title=Madame Carranza to Speak Monday|url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/imageserver/imageserver.pl?oid=TDB19440316-01&getpdf=true|accessdate=15 August 2015|publisher=The Daily Banner|date=16 March 1944|location=Greencastle, Indiana|page=1}}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Matilde Carranza

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