Ofelia Uribe de Acosta

{{Short description|Colombian suffragist (1900–1988)}}

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| death_place = Bogotá, Colombia

| nationality = Colombian

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Ofelia Uribe de Acosta (1900 – 1988) was a Colombian suffragist.

Acosta was born on December 22, 1900, in Oiba, Santander.{{Cite web|url=http://www.banrepcultural.org/node/73272|title=Ofelia Uribe de Acosta {{!}} banrepcultural.org|last=Magdala|first=Velásquez Toro|website=www.banrepcultural.org|language=es|access-date=2017-10-19}}

In 1930, Ofelia presented at the Fourth International Conference for Women to advocate for rights for married women.{{Cite web|url=https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/u/uribe_ofelia.htm|title=Biografia de Ofelia Uribe de Acosta|website=www.biografiasyvidas.com|language=es|access-date=2018-03-31}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.banrepcultural.org/biblioteca-virtual/credencial-historia/numero-68/ofelia-uribe-de-acosta|title=La Red Cultural del Banco de la República|website=www.banrepcultural.org|language=es|access-date=2018-03-31}}{{Cite journal|last=Blanco Ruiz|first=Wilma Nury|date=January 2015|title=Ofelia Uribe de Acosta: Crítica a la educación colombiana|journal=Revista Historia de la Educación Latinoamericana|publisher=Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia|volume=17|issue=24 |pages=17–34|via=Directory of Open Access Journals|doi=10.19053/01227238.3299|doi-access=free|url=https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/5233790.pdf}} Women were not allowed to vote or create contracts.{{Cite journal|last=Quiñónez|first=Elizabeth|date=January 2015|title=Ofelia Uribe. Insurgencia de la subjetividad y la ciudadanía de las mujeres|journal=Revista Historia de la Educación Latinoamericana|publisher=Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia|volume=17|issue=24|pages=263–265|via=Directory of Open Access Journals|doi=10.19053/01227238.3333|doi-access=free}} Married women were under the protection (guardianship) of their spouses and their possessions went to their husbands.

In 1944 and 1955 respectively, she founded, edited, directed and distributed two political newspapers, the first called Agitacion Femenina (Feminist Movement, on behalf of Union Femenina de Colombia) and the second called Verdad (Truth).{{cite book|last=Bergmann|first=Emilie L.|title=Women, culture, and politics in Latin America|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780520065536|url-access=registration|year=1990|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=0520909070}}

In 1963 she published the book Una voz insurgente (An Insurgent Voice).

Acosta died on August 4, 1988, in Bogota.