Elvira López (feminist) explained

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. She focuses on the need to reform teaching programs, as well as, the intolerance which opposes the education of women. 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

Notes and References

1. Book: Bonnie G. Smith. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. 3. 2008. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-514890-9. 128–9. López, Elvira.
2. Mirta Zaida . Lobato . Mirta Zaida Lobato . Las rutas de las ideas: "cuestión social", feminismos y trabajo femenino . Revista de Indias . 73 . 257 . 131–156 .
3. Book: Goméz, Amanda . Elvira Lopéz : pionera del feminismo en la Argentina. . 1026798227.
4. Book: Karen Offen . Susan James. Gisela Bock. Beyond Equality and Difference: Citizenship, Feminist Politics and Female Subjectivity. 2005. Routledge. 978-1-134-89576-2. 65. Defining feminism: a comparative historical approach.
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 . 10.25094/rtp.2020n29a647 . 1808-5385. free .