Elvira López (feminist)

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Elvira V. López was an Argentinian feminist, activist, reformer and author.[1]

Along with her sister, Ernestina López de Nelson, she studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires.[1] In 1901 she completed a doctoral thesis on feminism, El movimiento feminista, supervised by Rodolfo Rivarola and Antonio Dellepiane.[2] Drawing extensively on European sources,[3] the thesis reviewed the development of feminism in the United States, Canada, Africa, India and Argentina. A final chapter reviewed international feminist congresses.[2]

Works[]

  • El movimiento feminista. Tesis presentada para optar por el grado de Doctora en Filosofía y Letras, Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Imprenta Mariano Moreno, 1901. Republished as El movimiento feminista: Primeros trazos del feminismo en Argentina, Buenos Aires: Ediciones Biblioteca Nacional, 2009.
  • 'La mujer en la Argentina: Costumbres, educación profesiones a que se dedica, datos estadísticos, legislación, etc.', Revista del Consejo Nacional de Mujeres, Vol. 2, No. 6 (June 1902)
  • 'Mujeres en las fábricas', La Prensa, 31 May 1918

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Bonnie G. Smith, ed. (2008). "López, Elvira". The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. 3. Oxford University Press. pp. 128–9. ISBN 978-0-19-514890-9.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Mirta Zaida Lobato. "Las rutas de las ideas: «cuestión social», feminismos y trabajo femenino". Revista de Indias. 73 (257): 131–156.
  3. ^ Karen Offen (2005). "Defining feminism: a comparative historical approach". In Gisela Bock; Susan James (eds.). Beyond Equality and Difference: Citizenship, Feminist Politics and Female Subjectivity. Routledge. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-134-89576-2.
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