Elvira Badaracco (22 May 1911 — 21 January 1994) was an Italian politician, socialist, writer and feminist activist.
[2] From 1963 she began to devote herself to political activity; the following year she enrolled in the Italian Socialist Party, dealing with social and women's issues.
In 1979 she founded the "Center for Historical Studies on the Women's Liberation Movement in Italy" with Pierrette Coppa and served as its president until her death in 1994.
The Center was created: With the aim of collecting, organizing, preserving and making available the wealth of knowledge and practices developed by the women's movement, in the belief that the protection and enhancement of the history of feminism and the history of women in general constitutes a value not only scientific and cultural, but also - and above all - political.
[3]The Center carries out an intense political and cultural activity in Milan and collects documentation on the feminist movement on an ongoing basis.