Calypso Botez

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Calypso Botez
Born1880
Died1933
NationalityRomanian

Calypso Botez (1880–1933), was a Romanian writer, suffragist and women's rights activist.

Life

Botez was born in 1880 in

Red Cross in Galati.[1] In 1917 she was a co-founder, with Maria Baiulescu, Ella Negruzzi and Elena Meissner, of Asociația de Emancipare Civilă și Politică a Femeii Române or the Romanian Women's Union (UFR).[2]

She wrote about women's rights highlighting that the Romanian constitution's first article held that all citizens were equal. In 1919 she published The Problem of the Rights of the Romanian Woman. She campaigned for reform of the powers of the government, women's rights and divorce law reform. In 1920 she published The Problem of Feminism. A Systematization of Its Elements.[1] She co-founded the Consiliul Naţional al Femeilor Române in 1921.

Other works

  • Women's Rights in the Future Constitution (1922)
  • Women's Rights in the Future of the Civil Code (1924)
  • Report on the Legal Situation of Women (1932)

References

  1. ^ a b "Calypso Botez – Enciclopedia României – prima enciclopedie online despre România". enciclopediaromaniei.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  2. OCLC 977384067
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  • George Marcu (coord.), Dicţionarul personalităţilor feminine din România, Editura Meronia, București, 2009.