Adelaide Coari

Adelaide Coari (4 November 1881 – 16 February 1966) was an Italian Catholic feminist, trade unionist, social activist, and teacher.

Coari was born 4 November 1881 in Milan, Italy into an unaffluent, Roman Catholic family.[1][2][3] As a young woman she studied journalism and at 20 years old became a Christian feminist. Her first job was editorial assistant at Lega Cattolica Femminile's monthly journal L'Azione muliebre, where she later became editor. Inspired by the work of Romolo Murri, Coari helped found Gruppo di Donne Democratiche Cristiane. She was also involved in Federazione delle Donne di Milano, a Milanese women's group.

In 1904, supported by Andrea Ferrari, Coari left L'Azione muliebre to start Pensiero e Azione, a biweekly publication promoting women's unionization.

In 1908, church authorities shut down Pensiero e Azione as too modernist, and Coari abandoned union activism for teaching and other charitable work.[2][3]

She died 16 February 1966 in Rovegno, Italy.[1]

References

1. "COARI, Adelaide". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Retrieved 19 July 2017.
2. Giovanna Farrell-Vinay (1995). A. T. Lane (ed.). Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-313-26456-6.
3. Mandara, Lilli (29 May 2021). "Adelaide, Elisa and the others". L'Osservatore Romano. Retrieved 24 July 2024.

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