Elisa Soriano Fisher

Elisa Soriano Fisher (October 22, 1891 in Madrid – December 3, 1964 in Madrid) was a Spanish teacher and ophthalmologist. She founded the Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Españolas (ANME, National Association of Spanish Women) and was the president of the Juventud Universitaria Femenina (JUF, Female University Youth) association. She is considered a leading figure of universal suffrage and associative and intellectual feminism of the 1920s and 1930s, until the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ "Elisa Soriano Fisher (1891-1964)" (PDF).
  2. ^ Libro de Actas VIII Congreso Nacional de Historia de la Medicina. Murcia-Cartagena. Universidad de Murcia 1988 vol.1 pp. 595-606
  3. ^ Elisa Soriano Fisher, una médica feminista. Teresa Ortiz Gómez. Mujer y salud, 5 (febrero de 2000) pp. 16-17
  4. ^ Raquel Vázques Ramil. Mujeres y educación en la España contemporánea. La Institución Libre de Enseñanza y la Residencia de Señoritas de Mdrid. Editorial AKAI.|ISBN 978-84-460-2920-5 Madrid. 2012