User:Ginger6310/Elvira López (feminist)

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

Along with her sister, Ernestina López de Nelson, she studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1901 she completed a doctoral thesis on feminism, El movimiento feminista, supervised by Rodolfo Rivarola and Antonio Dellepiane. In her thesis key concepts are female education, work, and family. In the thesis she focuses on the need to reform teaching programs, and the intolerance which opposes the education of women. Drawing extensively on European sources, the thesis reviewed the development of feminism in the United States, Canada, Africa, India and Argentina. A final chapter reviewed international feminist congresses.