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Kallirhoe Parren (Greek: Καλλιρρόη Παρρέν; 1861 – January 15, 1940) was a Greek feminist, journalist and writer.

Born in Rethymno, Crete, Kallirhoe Parren settled in Athens with her husband and launched the feminist movement there with the founding of a newspaper, Ephimeris ton kirion (Women's Journal), in 1887.[1]

A report into women's emancipation in nineteenth-century Greece claims that as Greeks pursued nationalism, women were assigned a civilising, Hellenism role. Parren is credited with expanding this role for women by calling on them, through her paper, to be more active in terms of patriotism.[2] In addition her paper promoted women writers and recovered women's history.[1]

In 1896 Parren founded the Union of Greek Women. There was active involvement by the Union in collecting funds, sewing uniforms for soldiers, and training medical staff for the, short-lived, Greco-Turkish uprising of 1897.[2] Her other achievements include: founding the Lyceum of Greek Women in 1911 and successfully lobbying for women's admittance to the University of Athens. Parren also wrote A History of Greek Women from 1650 to 1860 (in Greek).[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b c *Ahmet Ersoy, Macie J. Gorny, Vangelis Kechriotis, (eds), Modernism: The Creation of Nation States., pp. 125–130. Central European University Press, (October 28, 2010), ISBN 978-9-63-732661-5
  2. ^ a b 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, pp. 67-79. Retrieved February 24, 2013.

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