Absolute Equality: An Early Feminist Perspective/ Influencias De Las Ideas Modernas (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage)
LUISA CAPETILLOwas born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, in 1879 to working class parents. She worked in cigar factories as a reader, where she first became active in labor organizing. A committed activist, Capetillo traveled throughout Puerto Rico, the United States, and Cuba to contribute to the international labor movement. She wrote extensively both for the Spanish press, notably inLa Mujer, a short-lived feminist working-class magazine that she founded. She is the author of many works relating to her ideas, among themEnsayos libertarios(1907),La humanidad en el futuro(1910),Verdad y justicia: Cuento de Navidad para ninos(1910), andInfluencias de las ideas modernas(1916).LARA WALKERis a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Houston whose dissertation examines Luisa Capetillo's textual production and praxis as modes of resistance to hegemonic structures.