Raquel Camaña

Raquel Camaña (30 September 1883 – 21 October 1915) was an Argentine teacher and activist who campaigned for the inclusion of sexual education in the school curriculum.

Early life and education Camaña was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1883. She was trained at the National Teacher Training School in La Plata, Buenos Aires, by American teacher Mary Olstine Graham. She also attended courses at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires, including logic, taught by José Nicolás Matienzo, and psychology, taught by José Ingenieros. Julieta Lanteri and CamañaCamaña an advocate of eugenics, arguing that the masses should be taught the conditions necessary for healthy reproduction to alleviate poverty. In 1910 she presented her thesis "the Sexual Question" to the Argentine Public Hygiene Society, who unanimously approved her recommendation for the inclusion of sexual education in the school curriculum. She was invited to attend the Third International Congress on School Hygiene in Paris, France (as an official government representative), the Congress of Pedagogy and Hygiene, held in Belgium, and organised Argentina's First National Congress of Children with doctor and activist Julieta Lanteri in 1913. thumb Humanidad Nueva magazine, 1915When Camaña applied to the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires to cover a substitute position in the Chair of Education Sciences, she was rejected as a candidate because of her gender.