Ana Roqué’s Heraldo de la Mujer: Positioning Strategies in Puerto Rican Suffragist Struggle

Abstract

This article analyses the discursive strategies deployed by women in Puerto Rican feminist journal
Heraldo de la Mujer (1919-1920) in order to further their citizenship rights and specially their right
to vote. This publication was mainly the result of the personal work developed by intellectual and writer Ana Roqué. It became the medium through which the “Liga Femínea Puertorriqueña” took part in the debate on women’s suffrage. We propose that it is possible to recognize in this journal the mechanisms Ana Roqué and her feminist collaborators used to advance the understanding of the importance of granting women’s citizenship rights. At the same time, we argue that being Heraldo de la Mujer mainly a personal editorial project developed by Ana Roqué, it constitutes a privileged space to observe the cultural and material conditions the Puerto Rican intellectual had to face to publish each one of the journal’s issues.