Lídia Puigvert (born 29 May 1970) is a Colombian lecturer of sociology at the University of Barcelona.[1] She is a feminist author known for her theoretical contributions to dialog feminism[2] and the overcoming of gender violence. She has been published many times and co-authored Women and Social Transformation with Judith Butler and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim.[3] Due to her relevant contributions in gender studies, she was appointed as a consultant for European research projects such as IMPACT-EV,[4] INCLUD-ED,[5] and WORKALÓ.[6] She was a principal investigator in several projects and coordinated Life paths that move away or move closer to human trafficking with the purpose of sexual exploitation.[7] In 2008, she was a member of the Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women at the European Women's Lobby Observatory. As a lecturer, she has been invited to present conferences and seminars at different universities around the world, such as Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard.

Biography

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Lídia Puigvert was born in Bogotá on 29 May 1970 and was raised in Malgrat de Mar, a coastline village of Maresme.[citation needed]

In 1992, she started her collaboration with the Centre of Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Inequalities (CREA), working with Ramon Flecha on the initial team. One of the research lines Puigvert promoted was the inclusion of other women's voices - primarily non-academic women who had been traditionally excluded from feminist debates. This research was consolidated in her contribution to the theory of dialogic feminism. Within the feminism sphere, Puigvert also contributed to the overcoming of gender violence.

In January 2004, as part of her work on gender violence, Puigvert worked with the CREA-SAFO Women's Group to speak out against the hostile environment at Spanish universities,[8] where there were neither mechanisms of detection nor prevention of gender violence.[9] In response to her positions, a lobby of university harassers initiated a smear campaign to discredit her and maintain the silence on gender violence at Spanish universities.[citation needed] During the course of this smear campaign, Puigvert's husband, Jesús Gómez, died.[citation needed]

Despite the personal cost of harassment, Puigvert continued her research, culminating in a contribution to the bill, "For the Effective Equality of Men and Women", signed into law on March 22, 2007.[10] The law ruled that all Spanish universities must have equality commissions and protocols against gender violence. This work was acknowledged by Sarah Rankin, director of the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response at Harvard University[11] in 2010.

Puigvert also developed the preventative socialization of gender violence concept,[12] introduced by Gómez. This contribution has been published in several JCR scientific articles and is one of the bases of the dialogic model of conflict resolution.

Puigvert is currently[when?] researching the illegal female trafficking system that affects millions of women worldwide. Puigvert continues to work in academia and on social issues to improve the lives of women around the world.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ "Universitat de Barcelona - Staff directory UB". Archived from the original on 16 February 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  2. ^ Her contribution on dialogic feminism has been studied in diverse academic forums, and universities, for example, Havens Center has available her contribution as key to understanding dialogic feminism: http://www.havenscenter.org/files/Chap.2_Dialogic%20feminism.pdf , Retrieved September 2014. Archived 18 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth; Butler, Judith; Puigvert, Lídia (2003). Women and Social Transformation. New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-0-8204-6708-5.
  4. ^ "IMPACT-EV – Lídia Puigvert". Archived from the original on 14 September 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  5. ^ "Coordinator | INDLUD-ED". Archived from the original on 14 September 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  6. ^ "Description of WORKALO project". Archived from the original on 16 February 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  7. ^ "TRATA". Archived from the original on 14 September 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  8. ^ http://creaub.info/2009/09/28/breaksilence/ Retrieved September 2014
  9. ^ http://creaub.info/pdf/letter_en.pdf Archived 8 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine , Retrieved September 2014
  10. ^ Ley Orgánica 3/2007, de 22 de marzo, para la igualdad efectiva de mujeres y hombres, http://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-2007-6115&lang=en , Retrieved September 2014
  11. ^ Comments of Sarah Rankin, Director of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Harvard University on work done by Lídia Puigvert and CREA http://creaub.info/2010/02/27/sarahrankin/ Retrieved September 2014
  12. ^ Valls, R.; Puigvert, L. & Duque, E. (2008). Gender violence among teenagers: socialization and prevention. Violence Against Women, 14(7), 759- 785.
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Lídia Puigvert: academic profile