Soteria Aliberty

Soteria Aliberty (Greek: Σωτηρία Αλιμπέρτη; 1847–1929) was a Greek feminist and educator who founded the first Greek women's association, Ergani Athena (Greek: Εργάνη Αθηνά).

Aliberty founded a school for girls in Romania and wrote biographical sketches of notable Greek women for the Women's Newspaper of Athens.[1] 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.[2] In 1893, she returned to Athens where she founded Ergani Athena and became editor of the literary journal Pleiades.[3]

See also

• Feminism in Greece
• Kalliroi Parren

Notes

1. Boles, Janet K., and Diane Long Hoeveler. Historical Dictionary of Feminism. Scarecrow Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8108-4946-1.
2. Avdela, E., and Psarra, A. (2005), "Engendering 'Greekness': Women's Emancipation and Irredentist Politics in Nineteenth-Century Greece", Mediterranean Historical Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, June 2005, p. 77. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
3. Jennifer S. Uglow, Frances Hinton, Maggy Hendry (ed.), The Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography (3rd edition), UPNE, 1999, ISBN 1-55553-421-X, p. 13.

References

• J. S. Uglow, F. Hinton. The International Dictionary of Women's Biography. Continuum International Publishing Group, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8264-0417-6

Further reading

• Stefanidou, Xenia (2007), "Greek Women in Positions of Power." Paper presented at the Hellenic American Professional Society Annual Meeting. November 4.