María Luisa Dolz y Arango: feminine emancipation to crosswise of education

Abstract

The history of Latin American education, with a gender perspective, has an important debt to women. The subject, from this integrative view has been insufficiently addressed. This paper aims to explain how the educational work, citizen participation and thought of María Luisa Dolz and Arango (1854-1928) contributed to women’s emancipation in Cuba. The notable pedagogue was the person who made most contributions to women’s educations in the century XIX and first half of the XX. Next to Félix Varela, José of Light and Caballero and José Martí considers him pioneer of the tradition of thought in education Cuban. She was the first to graduate with a degree in pedagogical science and at the following year she completed, with encouraging grades, her doctorate in Physical and Mathematical sciences, to become the first Cuban that qualification at the University of Havana. His high school was made of at the first high school prevailed Cuba; this had influence in that for the first time the women will enter the University of Havana. To this notable pedagogue has to him teaching for the first time at our country, of guided Physical Education women and he worked the teaching of this subject of study into his high school. One of the pioneers of the movement was feminist in Cuba and he stands out in fight for the suffrage and the juridical freedoms.