Luisa Capetillo

Félix V. Matos Rodríguez

An Early Feminist Speaks Out

In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested for wearing men's trousers in public. This act of rebellion was the result of a lifelong devotion to socialist and feminist thought. And this zeal runs throughout her brilliant essays: in the challenges to big business, in her strident campaigning for the legalization of divorce, in the championing of 'free love'. At once a sharp critique and a celebration of world politics, <i>A Nation of Women</i> embraces humanism and envisions a world in which economic and social structures can be broken down, allowing both the worker and the woman to be free.

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