Soteria Aliberty (; c. 1847–1929) was a
Greek
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feminist
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and educator who founded the first Greek women's association, ''Ergani Athena'' ().
Aliberty founded a school for girls in
Romania
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and wrote biographical sketches of notable Greek women for the ''Women's Newspaper'' of
Athens
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.
[Boles, Janet K., and Diane Long Hoeveler. ''Historical Dictionary of Feminism.'' ]Scarecrow Press
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, 2004, . Similar activities were being carried out in Greece around the same time by the Ladies' Central Committee and
Kalliroi Parren's ''Union of Greek Women''. In 1893, she returned to Athens where she founded ''Ergani Athena'' and became editor of the literary journal ''Pleiades''.
[ Jennifer S. Uglow, Frances Hinton, Maggy Hendry (ed.), ''The Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography'' (3rd edition), ]UPNE
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, 1999, , p. 13.
See also
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Feminism in Greece
While feminist ideology started gaining popularity in the mid-19th and early 20th century in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States, and slowly the rest of the world, the movement did not gain common traction in ...
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Kalliroi Parren
Notes
References
*J. S. Uglow, F. Hinton. ''The International Dictionary of Women's Biography.'' Continuum International Publishing Group, 1989.
Further reading
* Stefanidou, Xenia (2007), "Greek Women in Positions of Power." Paper presented at the Hellenic American Professional Society Annual Meeting. November 4.
1840s births
1929 deaths
Greek expatriates in Romania
Greek feminists
Greek women journalists
Greek women educators
19th-century Greek writers
19th-century Greek women writers
19th-century Greek educators
19th-century Greek women educators
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