Cabete, Adelaide (1867–1935)
Cabete, Adelaide (1867–1935)
Portuguese physician, feminist and essayist. Born 1867 into a working-class family in Portugal; died 1935; at 19, married a sergeant in the Republican army.
One of the leading figures of Portuguese feminism, earned her medical degree (1900) with a thesis on working-class mothers-to-be; with Ana de Castro Osório, founded National Council of Portuguese Women and organized the First Feminist Congress in Lisbon (1924); contributed essays on health care for women and children to magazine Alma Feminina; went to Angola (1929) and continued work on health issues; returned to Portugal (1934).
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