María Elena Oddone was a teacher by profession, and led a comfortable life as a housewife from Barrio Norte, married to a soldier.

[1] It published articles by feminists such as Kate Millett, Evelyn Reed, Susan Sontag, Juliet Mitchell, and Simone de Beauvoir.

[2] The MLF, in collaboration with the Argentine Feminist Union (UFA) created by María Luisa Bemberg and Gabriela Cristeller, and with middle-class urban activists, especially from Buenos Aires, carried out numerous activities to raise awareness and debate of women's issues.

To this end, she formed a commission made up of Irma Block, Victoria Mungo, Sara Torres, María Luisa Bemberg, Leonor Calvera, and others, which organized demonstrations and undertook a campaign to collect signatures.

[5][8] From 1989 to 1994, she wrote a column in the weekly El Informador Público, covering cases of sexist violence and complaints against the police and legal system.