Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta

Ofelia de la Concepción Rodríguez Acosta García (9 February 1902, in Pinar del Río[1] – 28 June 1975, in Havana or Mexico) was a Cuban writer, journalist, radical feminist,[2] and activist.

Together with Mariblanca Sabas Alomá, Rodríguez became one of the most influential writers who attracted attention to the feminist cause in Cuba during the first half of the 20th century.

Rodríguez had an active political life during that period, and wrote for Bohemia (1929–32) where she "developed radical psychological challenges to the prescribed behavior of Cuban women".

With titillating content,[7] which provoked public outrage, her novel La Vida Manda (1927) was the most controversial of her works.

[8] Rodriguez felt that women need to liberate themselves by enjoying free love and rejecting the religious, social and sexual strictures of society.