Elvira López

Elvira V. López (1871–1956) was an Argentine 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 include female education, work, and family.

She focused on the need to reform teaching programs, as well as, 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. Elvira López, seu Poem e sua Maeta: sobre duas cantigas constitutes the metaphor(maeta) of what her body represents and the stigma around the discourse during that time.