With this book, the Athenian writer Giannis Kairophylas returns to the Athens of the Belle Époque and focuses on the important struggle that women waged at the time for the assertion of their rights.

He presents many previously unknown details about the battles of Greek women during the period 1880-1910, prominently featuring the enlightened Kalliroi Parren, who with the Ladies' Newspaper paved the way for every woman to seek a place in society, in the workplace, and in science.

At that time, the conditions were created for the first cracks to appear in the prejudices and mindset of those who wanted the Greek woman to be only a wife, mother, and sister - or only a teacher, textile worker, and of course, a servant, literally, as happened with every young girl who, to earn her bread, became a maid in some wealthy household.

The revolution of women in Athens of the Belle Époque brought great upheavals to the established order. Reading the pages of this book, the reader feels as though they are living in the most 'beautiful era' of old Athens.