Soteria Aliberty

Soteria Aliberty (Greek: Σωτηρία Αλιμπέρτη; c. 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]

  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.