Elvira López (feminist)

Elvira V. López was an Argentine 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][3] In her thesis key concepts include female education, work, and family.[3] She focuses on the need to reform teaching programs, as well as, the intolerance which opposes the education of women.[3] Drawing extensively on European sources,[4] the thesis reviewed the development of feminism in the United States, Canada, Africa, India and Argentina. A final chapter reviewed international feminist congresses.[2] Elvira López, seu Peom e sua Maeta: sobre duas cantigas [5] constitutes the metaphor(maeta) of what her body represents and the stigma around the discourse during that time.

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. Bonnie G. Smith, ed. (2008). "López, Elvira". The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. pp. 128–9. ISBN 978-0-19-514890-9.
  2. Lobato, Mirta Zaida. "Las rutas de las ideas: "cuestión social", feminismos y trabajo femenino". Revista de Indias. 73 (257): 131–156.
  3. Goméz, Amanda. Elvira Lopéz : pionera del feminismo en la Argentina. OCLC 1026798227.
  4. 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.
  5. Marques Samyn, Henrique (2020-02-25). "Elvira Lopez, seu 'Peom' e sua 'Maeta': sobre duas cantigas satiricas de Joao Garcia de Guilhade". Revista Texto Poético. 16 (29): 155–167. doi:10.25094/rtp.2020n29a647. ISSN 1808-5385.


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