Soteria Aliberty (Greek: Σωτηρία Αλιμπέρτη; c. 1847–1929) was a Greekfeminist 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]
^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.
^Jennifer S. Uglow, Frances Hinton, Maggy Hendry (ed.), The Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography (3rd edition), UPNE, 1999, ISBN1-55553-421-X, p. 13.
Stefanidou, Xenia (2007), "Greek Women in Positions of Power." Paper presented at the Hellenic American Professional Society Annual Meeting. November 4.