Carolina Beatriz Ângelo

Portuguese feminist and suffragist

Carolina Beatriz Ângelo
Carolina Beatriz Ângelo
Born	(1878-04-06)6 April 1878 Guarda, Portugal
Died	3 October 1911(1911-10-03) (aged 33) Lisbon, Portugal
Nationality	Portuguese
Education	Medical School Lisbon
Occupation	Physician
Known for	Voting in 1911, the first woman in Portugal to do so
Spouse	Januario Barreto (1902-1910)
Children	Maria Emília
Parent(s)	Emília Clementina de Castro Barreto Viriato António Ângelo
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Carolina Beatriz Ângelo (16 April 1878 – 3 October 1911) was a Portuguese physician and the first woman to vote in Portugal.

Life

Carolina Beatriz Ângelo was a medical doctor practising in Lisbon. She was a feminist and suffragette who participated in multiple women's associations. She was a leader of the League of Republican Women and, in 1911, she and Adelaide Cabete founded the Portuguese Association of Feminist Propaganda (Associação de Propaganda Feminista) of which Ana de Castro Osório became the head.^[1]^[2]

Vote

On May 28, 1911 Ângelo cast her vote to elect representatives to the Constituent National Assembly in 1911 in the first elections after the overthrown of the monarchy in the Republican Revolution on 5 October 1910.^[3] She used the ambiguity of the law, which granted the right to vote to literate head-of-households over 21, to cast her vote.^[4]^[3] As a widow and the mother of a daughter, she was a head-of-household. Shortly thereafter, on July 3, 1913, a law was passed to specify the right to vote was only for male citizens, literate and over 21.^[4] Her act was widely reported on throughout Portugal and among feminist associations in other countries.^[5]^[6]

Tribute

On May 28, 2021, Google celebrated her with a Google Doodle.^[7]

Notes

^ Janz, Oliver; Schonpflug, Daniel, eds. (2014). Gender History in a Transnational Perspective: Networks, Biographies, Gender Orders. Berghahn Books. pp. 53, 61–62. ISBN 9781782382751.
^ Rodriguez Ruiz, Blanca; Rubio-Marín, Ruth (2012). The Struggle for Female Suffrage in Europe: Voting to Become Citizens. Brill. p. 480. ISBN 978-9004224254.
^ ^a ^b Costa Pinto, António (1998). Modern Portugal. Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship. p. 171. ISBN 9780930664176.
^ ^a ^b Fauré, Christine, ed. (2004). Political and Historical Encyclopedia of Women. Routledge: Taylor & Francis. p. 399. ISBN 9781135456900.
^ Wayne, K., ed. (2011). Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World: A Global Sourcebook and History. ABC-CLIO. p. 374. ISBN 9780313345807.
^ "Who was Beatriz Angelo?". Hospital Beatriz Angelo. Archived from the original on 2018-04-06. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
^ "Celebrating Carolina Beatriz Ângelo". Google. 28 May 2021.