Adelaide de Jesus (Cabete) Damas Brazão Cabete (1867 - 1935)

Born 25 Jan 1867 in Alcáçova, Elvas, Portalegre, Portugal

Died 14 Sep 1935 at age 68 in Lisboa, Portugal

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Biography

Adelaide de Jesus (Cabete) Damas Brazão Cabete is Notable.

Adelaide Cabete was a Portuguese feminist and republican.

Adelaide de Jesus Damas Brazão Cabete was born on January 25, 1867 in Alcáçova, Elvas, Portalegre, Portugal. Her mother was Balbina dos Remédios Damas and her father was Ezequiel Duarte Brazão. She was from a poor family, both her parents were farm workers in Alentejo.

Her father died when she was young, so she had to leave school and work as a housemaid for wealthy families in Évora. Despite these challenges, she taught herself how to read.

When she was 18, she married Manuel Ramos António Cabete, a sergeant and Republican sympathizer who believed in women's emancipation. He supported her studies as she spent a decade completing the primary and secondary education she missed as a girl, in 1889 and 1894 respectively.

In 1900, at the age of 33, she was the third woman in Portgual to earn a medical degree. She became an obstetrician-gynecologist and practiced in Lisboa. She established Portgual's first maternal clinic.

Adelaide proposed the creation of maternity hospitals, nurseries, rights of children and animal rights, as well as a maternal leave program.

She died on September 14, 1935 in Lisboa, Portugal.

On January 25, 2023, her 156th birthday was celebrated with a Google Doodle.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Adelaide Cabete
• Wikidata: Item Q2817337, pt:Wikipedia

• Cabete, Adelaide. "Portugal People," Portugal-info (portugal-info.net : accessed 25 June 2018), listing Portuguese famous women, source unknown.
• Daniel Floquet, "Adelaide Cabete", She Thought It: Crossing Bodies in Sciences and Arts. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. August 26, 2019.
• Maria Inês Batista, Mariana Barbosa, Rita Benzinho, Sara Moura. "Cabete, Adelaide (1867-1935)", Dictionário de Médicos Portgueses. Projecto da Unidade Curricular de História da Medicina da Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. October 10, 2021.