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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b Lobato, Mirta Zaida (2013). "Las rutas de las ideas: "cuestión social", feminismos y trabajo femenino". Revista de Indias. 73 (257): 131–156. doi:10.3989/revindias.2013.006.
  3. ^ a b c 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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