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This article looks into the Uruguayan feminist internationalism of the early decades of the 20th century through the analysis of the "intellectual networks" forged by doctor Paulina Luisi. It particularly follows her contacts with several other academic leaders of the Argentine feminist movement. To do so, we focus on Luisi's private correspondence with these women. Those letters reveal how their common issues and concerns crossed State borders and led them to undertake joint action, including campaigns supporting the ban on prostitution, equal ethics for both sexes, or the "social hygiene" movement. But they also show their disagreements about the strategies to be followed in order to achieve their feminist goals. Those discrepancies, tainted with personal misgivings, eventually stood in the way of the achievement of their goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the character and thinking of Ángela Acuña Braun, one of the first women who defined herself as a feminist in the country, in the context of the configuration of the Costa Rican democracy during the first part of the XXth century. The thoughts and actions of Acuña are also analyzed in relation to the international suffragist movement and to the ideas that gave birth to this social movement that struggled to guarantee women's equal rights in western democracies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the State of Bahia, in the Brazilian Northeast region, feminist struggles began to appear in the local press around 1912, through news about terrorist actions carried out by British suffragists. This work analyzes feminist discourse in the Bahian press during the period 1912-1934, focusing on the identification of its characteristics, conceptions, lines of action and major issues, as well as on the forms of relationships established with the State and with local oligarchies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]