© Latinas in History 2008
The
only daughter of intellectual luminaries, Francisco Henríquez Ureña
and Salomé Ureña de Henríquez, Camila’s prominent Dominican
family included three brothers, all of whom would leave their mark in the realm
of ideas. Moving to Cuba in 1904, Henríquez Ureña earned a doctorate
from the University of Havana in 1917. She became a Cuban citizen in 1926, lived
in Paris, studied at the Sorbonne, and came to the U.S. in 1942 to teach at Vassar
and Middlebury colleges. Among a handful of Caribbean feminists academics and
writers, Henríquez Ureña excelled in the genre of the essay. Her
formidable feminist trilogy includes “Feminismo” (1939), “La mujer
y la cultura”(1949), and “La carta como forma de expresión literaria
femenina” (1951).
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