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BRAZILIAN WOMEN “ making history ”. By Alexsandra Lins. 16TH CENTURY. MADALENA CARAMURU. Native Moema and Portuguese Diogo Álvares Corrêa 1st literate woman on March 26, 1561: Padre Manoel da Nobrega . 17TH CENTURY. MARIA ÚRSULA DE ABREU E LENCASTRE. Rio de Janeiro , 1682
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BRAZILIAN WOMEN “makinghistory” ByAlexsandra Lins
MADALENA CARAMURU • NativeMoema andPortugueseDiogo Álvares Corrêa • 1st literatewoman • onMarch 26, 1561: Padre Manoel da Nobrega.
MARIA ÚRSULA DE ABREU E LENCASTRE • Rio de Janeiro, 1682 • Lisboa, November 12th, 1700. • Afonso Teixeira Arraes de Melo,1714.
MARIA QUITÉRIA (1792-1853) • 1822, José Cordeiro de Medeiros, “Soldier Medeiros". • 1823, battle of Itapuã. • 1996, Patroness of Supplementary group of Officers of the Brazilian Army, one of the few Army divisions that accept female members.
CHIQUINHA GONZAGA (1847-1935) • First songwriter of Brazilian popular music. • Author of two thousand compositions. • Abolitionist.
BERTHA LUTZ (1894-1976) • Sao Paulo on August 2, 1894, daughter of the English nurse Amy Fowler and scientist and pioneer of tropical medicine Adolfo Lutz. • One of the pioneers of the struggle for women's suffrage and equal rights between men and women in the country
RACHEL DE QUEIROZ (1910 - 2003) • Fortaleza , 1910. • The first woman to join the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1977. • Wonmanyawardsofthebestwriteoftheyear in Brasil and Portugal.
Luislinda Valois Santos (1943) • First black woman to become a judge and federal judge in Brazil. • In 1993, the first sentence against racism. • Ambassador of Peace in Vienna – Austria.
“I do not take into account if I am the first or the last black woman to be a judge in Brazil. For me, what matters is having the courage to say what needs to be said in time”. LuislindaValois