[ Prudencia Ayala ]
Prudencia Ayala (Sonzacate, 28 de abril de 1885 - San Salvador, 11 de julio de 1936), escritora y activista social salvadoreña, que luchó por el reconocimiento de los derechos de la mujer en El Salvador. Mujer de carácter humilde provenía de una familia de origen indígena, sus padres fueron Aurelia Ayala y Vicente Chief; cuando contaba con diez años de edad, se trasladó a la ciudad de Santa Ana, donde comenzó sus estudios primarios en el colegio de la profesora María Luisa de Cristofine,[1] los cuales nunca pudo concluir debido a la falta de recursos económicos en su familia,[2] por lo que desarrolló una formación autodidacta. `
A partir de 1913 comenzó a publicar artículos de opinión en el Diario de Occidente, periódico que circulaba en la región occidental de El Salvador, donde se manifestó partidaria del antiimperialismo, el feminismo y el unionismo centroamericano, además de expresar su rechazo a la invasión norteamericana de Nicaragua. También publicó poemas en varios periódicos del país.
En 1919 fue encarcelada por criticar en una de sus columnas, al alcalde de Atiquizaya y luego, en Guatemala, fue encarcelada varios meses por acusaciones de colaborar con la planificación de un golpe de Estado.En 1921 publicó el libro "Escible. Aventuras de una viaje a Guatemala" donde narraba su viaje a ese país en los últimos meses del gobierno dictatorial de Manuel Estrada Cabrera; además publicó los libros "Inmortal, amores de loca" (1925) y "Payaso literario en combate" (1928). A finales de la década de los años 1920, ella fundó y dirigió el periódico Redención femenina, donde expresó su postura en defensa de los derechos ciudadanos de las mujeres.
En 1930, consciente de sus derechos como mujer, retó al sistema social político de su tiempo al lanzarse como candidata a la Presidencia de la República convirtiéndose así en la primera mujer en El Salvador e Hispanoamérica en optar a esa investidura La legislación salvadoreña no reconocía el derecho al sufragio femenino. Su plataforma de gobierno incluía el apoyo a los sindicatos, la honradez y transparencia en la administración pública, la limitación de la distribución y consumo del aguardiente, el respecto por la libertad de cultos y el reconocimiento de los "hijos ilegítimos" (hijos fuera del matrimonio). Se inició un debate público de argumentos jurídicos y políticos a favor y en contra de su pretensión. Uno de los defensores de su candidatura fue el filósofo, maestro, escritor y diputado Alberto Masferrer, quien escribió en el periódico Patria:
Prudencia Ayala defiende una causa justa y noble, cual es el derecho de la mujer a ser elector y ocupar altos puestos. Su programa de gobierno no es inferior en claridad, sentido práctico y sencillez, al de otros candidatos que se toman en serio
Sufrió muchas humillaciones y varias veces fue encarcelada se le conocía como "Prudencia la loca" si bien es cierto en su momento no se le supo reconocer ha pasado mucho tiempo desde que aquella mujer de piel morena y ojos grandes escandalizo a la sociedad netamente machista pero de seguro con su bastón de madera abrió el camino de la historia para anunciar la igualdad de derechos"
Labels: Politics, prudencia ayala, salvadorean women
[ Claudia Lars ]
Claudia Lars, born in Armenia, El Salvador on December 20th, 1899 as Carmen Brannon Vega, was a Salvadoran poet. She died in San Salvador in 1974. She was the daughter of Peter Patrick Brannon and Carmen Vega Zelayandía.
Claudia produced 14 books of poetry and a memoir.
Labels: poetry, Salvadorean culture, salvadorean women
[ Francesca Miranda ]
Francesca Miranda is a Salvadoran fashion designer. She is one of five children of American Gloria Gonzales de Miranda, owner of Hacienda de Los Miranda, and of spaniard/italian Ruy Cesar Miranda Lupone from a socially prestigious and iconic family. Her eldest sister, born in 1953, is divorcee Olga Miranda.[1]
Before becoming a designer with Oscar de la Renta Miranda wanted to be a model and from 1979 she studied marketing in Florida.[1] She specialized in Fashion Merchandising and began to design under the Xango brand in 1995. Three years later she put her own name to her leading edge menswear designs. The collection had a Caribbean style, featuring assless riding chaps with soft colors, specially designed for curvier men. Having established herself as a menswear designer, in 2000 Miranda created City People, a range of clothes for women. City People has a sexy style, with embroidery, fitted trousers and transparent blouses. Her 2001 collection was inspired by the works of the Colombian novellist Gabriel García Márquez.[3]
After marriage to Francisco Jassir in 1983 she moved to her husband's hometown of Barranquilla, Colombia, where she opened her first boutique. This was successful enough to warrant opening a new store in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first boutique outside Colombia was opened in El Salvador. The couple have three children.
Miranda currently sells merchandise in Dubai, Russia, USA, France, United Kingdom, Colombia, Panama and El Salvador.
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[ Christy Turlington ]
Appeared in the nude for a PETA poster stating, "I'd rather go naked than wear fur".
Face is inspiration/model for mannequins in the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Was co-owner of Fashion Cafe in New York City. [1996]
On of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People [1993]
Dated Roger Wilson [1987-1991]
Collects pottery.
Has been on the cover of nearly 1,000 magazines since 1987 including Vouge, Allure, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, and Elle.
Sisters, Erin and Kelly.
Had Roger Wilson's initials tatooed on her ankle, but got it altered to a rose.
Attended Monte Vista High School in Danville, CA.
Is an anti-smoking activist.
Announced that she has early stage emphysema from her 10-year smoking habit. She quit smoking in 1995. [2000]
Announced engagement to Edward Burns [2001]
Spokesmodel of Calvin Klein.
Spokesmodel of Maybelline.
Spokesmodel of STRENESSE.
Measurements: 35B-22-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Her father is American and her mother is from El Salvador.
Is bilingual (speaks English & Spanish).
Dress size: 6-8
Shoe size: 9
She and Edward Burns welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Grace (b. 25 October 2003)
One of the five supermodels. The others are Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista.
Went back to school in 1994 and graduated cum laude in 1999, from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study of New York University (NYU), where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a concentration in Comparative Religion and Eastern Philosophy.
Is a Jivamukti (ashtanga) Yoga enthusiast
Used to order Kentucky Fried Chicken Original Recipe for her lunch during modeling shoots for Cosmopolitan magazine
Has a dog named "MicSpic" in honor of her Hispanic and her husband's Irish backgrounds.
Despite being a huge yoga enthusiast and majoring in eastern philosophy, decided that she was going back to her Catholic roots and go back to eating meat.
Graduated from NYU with a degree in Comparative Religion and Eastern Philosophy (1999)
Was ranked #6 in Channel 5's "World's greatest supermodel".
Diagnosed with emphysema in December 2000. She smoked up to a pack of cigarettes a day between the ages of 13 and 26, with a two year break.
Wore a silk-and-lace cap sleeved Galliano gown in her June 2003 wedding to Edward Burns.
Son, Finn, born January 2006.
Appeared in a Mario Testino photo shoot for Vanity Fair magazine alongside supermodels Claudia Schiffer, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford Stephanie Seymour and Naomi Campbell. The pictorial covered pages 182 through 193. [September 2008]
Spokesperson for Balenciaga.
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[ Consuelo de Saint Exupéry ]
Consuelo de Saint Exupéry (born Armenia, El Salvador, April 10, 1901—died Grasse, France, May 28, 1979) was a Salvadoran-French writer and artist, and wife of the famous writer and aviator Antoine de Saint Exupéry.
The Tale of the Rose is Consuelo’s account of their extraordinary marriage. It is a love story about a pilot and his wife, a man who yearned for the stars and the spirited woman who gave him the strength to fulfill his dreams.Labels: Salvadorean culture, salvadorean women
[ Alicia Larde ]
Otherwise known as Alicia Nash.
The story of John Nash's life --
brilliant mathematician, troubled schizophrenic, and finally winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics -- might have had a far harsher arc if not for his wife, Alicia Larde. Sylvia Nasar, the author of the book A Beautiful Mind, believes that Nash's choice of Larde revealed that his intelligence extended beyond mathematics. "It was Nash's genius," she writes, "to choose a woman who would prove so essential to his survival."
Alicia entered Nash's life as a young M.I.T. student dazzled by a star professor. Alicia remembers the first time she saw Nash. "I walked into the classroom, and I thought he was very nice looking," she said, "he was like the fair-haired boy of the math department." He, while the less eager partner, noticed her as well. "She," John admitted later in life, "was one of the few girls that attracted my attention."
Alicia was strikingly beautiful, well groomed and feminine, wearing full skirts and very high heels. She was intellectually sharp, cosmopolitan, witty, and socially savvy. According to author Sylvia Nash, Joyce Davis, a classmate of Alicia's, described the collegiate Alicia as "a Salvadorean princess with a sense of noblesse oblige."
Alicia's extended family was an aristocratic clan that hobnobbed with the intelligentsia of El Salvador rather than with the country's landed oligarchy. Alicia's family spoke French and English as well as Spanish, traveled abroad, and lived well in a beautiful villa near the center of San Salvador, El Salvador's capital.
That life vanished when Alicia's father, a doctor, left for the United States in 1944. The family followed, first settling in Biloxi, Mississippi, and then in metropolitan New York City. With a reference written by the salvadorean ambassador to the United States, Alicia gained entry to the Marymount School, an exclusive Catholic girls school on the Upper East Side. Alicia's father, excited by his daughter's childhood dream of becoming the next Marie Curie, wrote a letter to the schoolmaster, asking her to help Alicia realize her aspiration to become a nuclear scientist.
Alicia did well, becoming one of only 16 women entering the M.I.T. class of 1955.John and Alicia met in an Advanced Calculus for Engineers class, but became a couple after Nash encountered Alicia at the university's music library, where she worked. Nasar points out that the two shared far more than an attraction: they were both close to their mothers; grew up in houses where intellectual achievement and status were supreme; and were both outsiders. These attractions pulled the two together in marriage in 1957.
After John's sudden onset of schizophrenia, Alicia tried to hide what was going on from friends and faculty. "Alicia wanted to save his career and preserve his intellect," recalled a friend. "It was her interest to keep Nash intact." That was her intention when, pregnant, she had her husband involuntarily committed to McLean Hospital outside Boston, something that Nash bitterly resented.
"I tried to remain positive as much as I could," Alicia remembers. " And I really tried not to feel pity for myself."
After three years of familial turmoil, Alicia filed for divorce, something that the Hollywood version of Nash's life left out. With the help of her mother, Alicia raised their son John on her own. Later he, too, turned out to have schizophrenia. In 1970 a decade after the divorce and with her ex-husband struggling just to survive, Alicia took him into her home not as a husband but as what she called her " boarder."
"They say that a lot of people are left on the back wards of mental institutions," says Alicia, speaking of her decision to take Nash in. "And somehow their few chances to get out go by and they just end up there. So, that was one of the reasons I said, 'Well, I can put you up.' "
"If she hadn' t taken him in, he would have wound up on the streets," believes Nasar. "He had no income. He had no home. I think that Alicia saved his life." In the 1980s, John slowly emerged from schizophrenia and in 1994 he received a Nobel Prize in Economics for the game theory work he completed as a young man. In the spring of 2001, Alicia and John were remarried, 38 years after their divorce.
"We thought it would be a good idea," Alicia stated quite simply. "After all, we've been together most of our lives."
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