Kina Konova

Kina Konova (Bulgarian: Кина Конова) (Sevlievo, September 1872- Sofia, 2 May 1952), born Kina Moutafova, was a Bulgarian educator, translator, publicist, suffragist and women's rights activist. She was co-founder and leader of the first local women's socialist organization in Bulgaria, the Society of Friends. Women's Branch (1889), founder of the local women's society Nadejda (1897).

Active as a teacher, she was early on active in the debate of women's education and status of female teachers. In 1901, she was a co-founder of the Bulgarian Women's Union alongside Vela Blagoeva, Ekaterina Karavelova, Anna Karima and Julia Malinova. The organization was an umbrella organization of the 27 local women's organisations that had been established in Bulgaria since 1878. It was founded as a reply to the limitations of women's education and access to university studies in the 1890s, with the goal to further women's intellectual development and participation, arranged national congresses and used Zhenski glas as its organ.

References

• Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova & Anna Loutfi: Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Easterna and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th centuries Central European University Press, 2006