Mundos de Mujeres / Women's Worlds 2008
She was one of the founders of the women’s movement in Western Sahara. In 1985 she had been elected member of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front’s political division, in the same year she had been appointed governor of the region of Smara. Senia Ahmed, in her role as a member of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front advocated for the modification and retraction of western Saharan law in favour of Western Saharan women, consequently eradicating customs and traditions that reflect a clear discrimination against women and thus promoting the integration of women into the social, political and economical spheres. In 1990 she was elected as General Secretary of UNMS, namely the National Union of Saharawi women, and at the same time became director of the ‘27 de Febrero’ refugee camp. Therewith also directing the ‘27 de Febrero’ school for women, Senia Ahmed has developed and introduced concepts that foster gender strategies in order to achieve social change, thus mobilizing the Saharan society towards the adoption of a more democratic and egalitarian policy. In 1995 she was re-elected for a second term as General Secretary of UNMS and became a four years delegate for the Polisario Front in Switzerland. Recently she has been assigned ambassador of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to Libya.
Philosopher theoretician, she is one of the most important feminist intellectuals in Spain. She embodies the feminism of the equality and she has focused her research on the links between the Enlightenment and feminism. Her book, Hacia una crítica de la razón patriarcal (A Critique of Patriarchal Reason) which represents a new approach to philosophy from a gender perspective, denounces the androcentric view that has pervaded philosophical studies historically, and demands a critical re-vision by women. In 1987 she created the Seminar “Feminism and Enlightenment” at the University Complutense, and she was the Chair of the Institute of Feminist Research until 1993. She is at present the Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Moral Philosophy at the UNED University. She is the author of several books, including Feminismo: igualdad y diferencia, Diez palabras clave sobre Mujer (Ten Key Words about Women) and La gran diferencia y sus pequeñas consecuencias... para la lucha de las mujeres (The Great Difference and its Little Consequences for Women’s Fight). Currently she is doing research on the influence of the Enlightenment processes in feminism and in Islamic women. In 2006 she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Ensayo (Spanish National Prize for Non-fiction).
MA in Biology and Anthropology and PhD In Medical sciences. Senior Professor at the Medical Sciences Institute of Habana, she is an expert in Project management and distribution of resources. Currently she is the assessor of ACOMOR, a Cuban agency for the distribution of resources and she coordinates the Cuban branch of the “Gender and Collective Health Network”, within the Latin American Association of Social Medicine (ALAMES). She has given courses and workshops on issues around Gender and Health; Reproductive Health; and Gender and Development. She has published over twenty essays on various topics such as International Cooperation, gender, resources management, etc. She is the founder of the Cuban Anthropology Association, and a member of the Cuban Gynaecology Society. In 2001 she was awarded the annual prize of Health by the Cuban Scientific Society.
Lourdes Benería’s research centers on gender and development, labor markets, women's work, globalization, European integration, and Latin American development. She formerly directed the International Studies in Planning Program (ISP, 2003-2005), the Latin American Studies Program (LASP, 1993-1997) and the Gender and Global Change Program (GGC, 1988-1993 and 1999-2003). Benería served on the International Advisory Committee for the UNIFEM report on World's Women's Progress/2000 and is a member of the International Advisory Board for the International Labor Organization's Global Programme on Socioeconomic Security. She has been a member of the Research Advisory Council of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. and is currently a member of UNDP's the United Nations' Development Program) Directory of Appointed Experts on Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her present work focuses on the computerization of labor markets, poverty, and urban change in Latin America. Ms Benería joined the department in 1987.
Dora Cardaci graduated from the National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and holds a master degree in Social Medicine and a Ph. D in Medical Anthropology from the National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico. She was founder and head of the Health and Education Research Unit at the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Xochimilco campus where she is currently Full Time Professor. She was awarded as National Researcher, level 2 by the Mexican National Research System. In 1992 she received the Cecil G. Sheps Fellowship from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Cardaci has been a short-term consultant for UNICEF, PAHO, UNESCO, UNFPA, Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights and an advisor to other agencies and Latin American Universities. She is the author of numerous scientific articles. Her last book is Salud, Género y Programas de Estudios de la Mujer published by PAHO and two Mexican universities.She is member of the Editorial Board of the journals: Debate Feminista, Promotion and Education and Review of Health Promotion and Education on Line. Currently she is Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean and member of the Board of Trustees of International Union for Health Promotion and Education. .jpg)
President of AMIT (Researcher and Technician Women Association). Endocrine doctor in Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital (Barcelona, 1982-1984). Currently she is Research Teacher at the CSIC Biological Research Centre (Madrid), where she directs the Group of Growth Factors in Vertebrates’ Development. She has studied the regulations and effects of embryonic insulin and the growth factors in the development, issues which she has published more than a hundred of articles about. She has been awarded with the Prize Carmen de Burgos, due to her article Mujer y Ciencia desde la Europa del Sur.
Director of the Women and Science Unit of the Education and Sciences Ministry. Associate Professor of Oviedo University (Applied Economics Department, Sociology Area). She has been Visiting Professor on Stanford University (USA), Autonomous University of Madrid, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Moa University (Cuba) and Comahue University (Argentina). Her most important works are "El presente de su futuro. Modelos de autopercepción y vida de los adolescentes españoles" (Madrid, Siglo XXI, 1996) y "Ética" (Madrid, Anaya, 1995 and 2003). She has been working on issues related to Sociology of the Education, Gender Sociology, New Technologies of the Information and Communication and Methodology of Social Sciences. In those areas she has done research with both national and international teams and published a variety of books, chapters and articles with the conclusions.
Barbara Dührkop has been a socialist Euro MP since 1987. She was a professor at Erlangen-Nürnberg University until 1978 and President of the German School’s Broad of Directors of San Sebastián until 1995. Dührkop has been a member of the Socialist Party Executive Council since 1999. She was the socialist coordinator for the Culture and Education Commission from 1989 to 1994 and Vice-President of the Budget Commission from 1994 to 1999. She was awarded the ‘Progressive Woman’ Prize in 1995 and the Great Cross for Civil Merit by the Republic of Austria.
María José Díaz-Aguado is Professor of Psychology of Education, Director of both, the Master "Programs of Psychological Intervention in Educational Contexts", and of the PreventivePsychologyCenter at the Complutense University of Madrid. Leader of the Spanish staff in a cooperative research with Harvard University on Moral Development by the eighties she has working out during the past 30 years relevant research on peer relationships, exclusion, mobbing, intercultural education, tolerance development, sexism, gender violence and prevention Her researches received numerous awards. She has been designate as Expert against Racism and Intolerance and Adviser for the Education Project for Democratic Citizenship of the European Council. The European Presidency of 2002 ask her to direct the research on "How to mitigate the effects of and eradicate violence against women" and recently theObservatorio Estatal de la Convivencia del Estado Español ask her to research on the relationships among members in the Spanish school communities.
Professor of Sociology, researcher and professor of Research of the CSIM (Scientific Research Council). She has published around a hundred studies about Economic Sociology, employment of time and women’s social status. She was awarded with the National Prize of Research on Economic, Social and Legal Science in 2002. The most relevant titles of her work are: Nuevos objetivos de igualdad en el siglo XXI: las relaciones entre mujeres y hombres (coord.) (2000); Si Aristóteles levantara la cabeza. Quince ensayos sobre las ciencias y las letras (2000); The future of work in Europe (dir.), Comisión Europea, Dirección General V (1999); La ciudad compartida: conocimiento, afecto y uso (1998) and Los costes invisibles de la enfermedad (2000-2003).
Nawal el Saadawi is one of the most well-known feminists and political dissidents in the Arab world. As a psychiatrist, she became a worldwide celebrity in 1972 with her book Women and Sex, which deals with the taboos of women’s sexuality, a publication which led her to resign as Director of Public Health in Egypt. She also lost her job as Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal Health, and as Assistant Secretary of the Egyptian Medical Association. Since then, several of her books, most of them focusing on Arab and Muslim women’s sexuality in the context of repressive authority and religious tradition have made her a target of both the lay Egyptian regime and the Islamic religious authorities. In 1982, she founded the Association of Solidarity with Arab Women, the first legal independent feminist organisation, dedicated to the promotion of the active participation of women in Arab societies. This organisation opposed the First Gulf War in 1991 and was prohibited by the Egyptian authorities. As an author, this activist has published more than forty books.
Professor of Architecture at the University of Córdoba (Argentina). She was leader of the Latin women’s movement during the preparatory process leading to the Beijing Conference (1995). Director of UNIFEM (UN International Development Fund for Women) for the region of the Andes, Brasil and Southern areas of Latin America.
García Valdés is Director of the Cervantes Institute in Toulouse, France. A Spanish poet and essayist, she is a graduate of Romance Philology and Philosophy from the Universities of Oviedo and Valladolid. She then became a teacher of Spanish Language and Literature at the high-school, El Greco, in Toledo. She has often collaborated with the journals Revista de Occidente and Ínsula; she is co-director of the poetic journal Los Infolios and co-founder and member of the Editorial Board of El signo del gorrión. Her work appears in several anthologies, among them La prueba del nueve (1994), Ellas tienen la palabra (1997) and El último tercio del siglo (1968-1998). Her poems have been translated into French, English, German, Swedish and Portuguese. The French journal Noir et Blanche and the English journal Agenda have both published monographic issues on her work. She was awarded the National Literature Prize 2007 for her poetic work, Y todos estábamos vivos (And We Were All Alive). .jpg)
Alicia Gaspar de Alba is an award-winning novelist as well as a professor of Chicano Studies at UCLA and poet. Selected Bibliography: Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders (Arte Publico, 2005); Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities (Palgrave 2003); Sor Juana's Second Dream (University of New Mexico Press, 1999).
Giménez-Salinas is Rector of the Ramon Llull University and Director of the Legal Defence Service for Minors of the Justice Department of the Government of Catalonia. She was General Director of the Center for Legal Studies and Specialized Education (1981-1993) and was also Deputy Director of the Criminology Institute of the University of Barcelona and Head of Institutional Relations of the Justice Department. In 1996 she was a professor of Criminal Law in the Faculty of Law at ESADE, Ramon LLull University. She has collaborated with the European Council in programs for the democratization of the System of Justice and has been a member of the International Centre of Comparative Criminology (University of Montreal), of the Scientific Commission of the Society for International Criminology, the Permanent Commission of the European Forum for Urban Security, and the Scientific Committee of Criminal Politics of the European Council. She is author of several books and publications, among them: Delincuencia juvenil y control social. Estudio descriptivo de la actuación del Tribunal Tutelar de Menores de Barcelona (Juvenile Delequency and Social Control. Introduction to Penal Law), Introducció al Dret Penitenciari. Teoria i pràctica (Introduction to Penal Law. Theory and Practice), Justicia de Menores: una Justicia Mayor (Justice System for Minors: Towards Greater Justice), “Jóvenes y cuestión penal en España” (The Young and the Question of the Penal Code in Spain), “Prison Labour: Salvation or Slavery, Spain” or “Mujeres delincuentes: del mito a la prisión”. She was awarded the Gold Medal “Cesare Beccaria” Prize (1997), in recognition of her work in establishing scientific criminology, the Gold Medal of the IVAK/KREI by the Basque Criminology Institute (2000) and the Great Cross of the Order of San Raimundo de Peñafort (2002). 
González Rosa is General Coordinator of the Network RSMLAC (Health Network for Latin-American and Caribbean Women). She is a member and co-founder of Taller Salud, the first feminist NGO for women’s health in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean (1979). She worked as an adviser for eight years in the first Help Center for the Victims of Domestic Violence of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean (1977) and later she worked in the Unit for the Prevention of Domestic Violence, under the auspices of the Commission for Women’s Issues of the Government of Puerto Rico. She also participated in the first work team of ‘Health Space’ Entre Nosotras (Among Women) in Madrid. She has published several articles related to women’s health and to sexual and domestic violence. She is a member of the Board of Directors of AWID (Association for Women’s Rights) and the Network SIEMPRE (Network for integral women’s health in Puerto Rico).
Carol Hagemann-White (B.A. Harvard 1964, Dr. phil. Free University of Berlin 1970) is full professor of gender studies and educational theory at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. She coordinates the European research network ”Coordination Action on Human Rights Violations (CAHRV)”, funded in the 6th research framework program of the EU from 2004 to 2007. Her work has covered a broad range of topics including gender socialization over the life course, gender and organization in work and politics, and women’s health. Beginning in 1977 in the first German refuge for battered women in Berlin, she has directed policy-related empirical studies linked to developing strategies to overcome gender-based violence, and directed a 6-year evaluation of multi-agency work in Germany: WiBIG final report: Gemeinsam gegen häusliche Gewalt 2004. In 1998 she was awarded the German-Swedish prize for outstanding research by the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. She works as an expert for European institutions on combating violence against women, most recently with the study Protecting Women Against Violence: Analytical study on the effective implementation of Recommendation Rec(2002)5 on the protection of women against violence in Council of Europe member states. Strasbourg 2007.
SANDRA HARDING
Sandra Harding is an American philosopher of feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, research methodology and philosophy of science. She has contributed to standpoint theory and to the multicultural study of science. She is currently a Professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education at UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and former Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Her long list of publications includes Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (1983), The Science Question in Feminism (1986), Sex and Scientific Inquiry (1987), Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives (1991), Science is 'Good to Think With', Social Text (1996) and Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms and Epistemologies (1998).
Dr Hernando is Professor of Prehistory and a member of the Institute of Feminist Research of the Complutense University of Madrid. She has carried out ethno-archaeological field work in Guatemala, Thailand and Brazil. Her present line of research concerns identity construction from an interdisciplinary perspective. Currently she is working on a research project titled Etnoarqueología de los Awá (Guajá) –Maranhão (Ethno-archaeology of the Awá (Guajá) –Maranhão) in Brazil. Related to the field of Arqueología, Identidad y Género (Archaeology, Identity and Gender), Dr Hernando has been invited to teach PhD courses, seminars and conferences in various universities; among the most recent are the PhD courses at the University of La Plata (Argentina) in July 2006, the seminar at the Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México in September 2006 and the plenary conference of the VI Congreso Chileno de Antropología in November 2007. Among her numerous works, some of the most outstanding are: Arqueología de la Identidad (Archeaology of Identity); ¿Desean las mujeres el poder? (Do Women Really Want Power?); Cinco reflexiones en torno a un deseo conflictivo (Five Reflexions on Conflictive Desire); and La construcción de la subjetividad femenina (The Construction of Feminine Subjectivity).
After thirteen years in prison due to his political activism against religious fundamentalism in Egypt, Hetata has founded with his wife Nawal El Sadaawi, the Women’s Association in Egypt. He is a doctor, but now he works as
PhD in Economical Sciences and Professor of Sociology at ‘Universitat Autònoma de Bracelona’. Her research areas are Social Inequality and Sociology, focusing on emotions and feelings. Director of the Observatory Group for Equality at ‘Universitat Autònoma de Bracelona’. Currently she heads a study group called ‘Feelings, Emotions and Society’ at the Department of Sociology at ‘Universitat Autònoma de Bracelona’. Among her publications the most significant are: Servidores sense fronteras: migració femenina filipina i xarxes de cura, 2007. (dir.). El sexismo a la UAB. Propostes d’actuació i dades per a un diagnòstic, (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2004). (dir.). Sin vuelta de hoja. Sexismo: poder, placer y trabajo (Ed. Bellaterra, 2001). Cuando los amores matan. Conflicto y cambio en las relaciones de edad y de género (Ed. Libertarias, 2000). El malestar en la desigualdad, (Madrid Ed. Cátedra,1998). Las, los, les, (lis, lus). El sistema sexo/género y la mujer como sujeto de transformación social, (laSal Ed. de les Dones, 1983)..jpg)
Dolores Juliano Corregido studied Anthropology in Argentina and obtained her PhD at the ‘Universidad de Barcelona’ where she has been working as a professor until her retirement. She has already worked for a long time on the topic of gender, therein especially analyzing migration and processes of social change. Within the latter, her research focus lies on analyzing discrimination and the respective mechanisms where women are affected the most and thereof can develop new strategies of self-affirmation. Within the latter framework she has collaborated with prostitutes, set up within the research group LICIT. She has also been part of projects engaged with lesbian women and imprisoned women. Another focus in her research lies on education’s anthropology. Among her numerous publications the most significant are: Cultura Popular (1986). El juego de las astucias. Mujer y construcción de mensajes sociales alternativos (1992). Educación intercultural. Escuela y minorías étnicas (1993). Chiapas: una rebelión sin dogmas (1995) La causa saharaui y las mujeres (1998) Las que saben... subculturas de mujeres. (1998). Las prostitución: El espejo oscuro (2002) Excluidas y marginales. Una aproximación antropológica (2004) and Marita y las mujeres en la calle (2004) Les altres dones. La construcció de la exclusió social (2006). She has taught numerous courses on the research topics alluded at several Spanish and foreign universities.
Michael S. Kimmel is a sociologist and author who has received international recognition for his work on men and masculinity. He is the Director of the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities (State University of New York at Stony Brook) and author of several books, among them Against the Tide: Profeminist Men in the United States and Abroad. Currently, he is involved in two book projects: he is researching and writing Angry White Men, a Comparative Study of the Extreme Right, White Supremacists, and Neo-Nazis in the United States, Britan, and Scandinavia. His other project is Guyland: The Inner World of Young Men, which is concerned with gender dynamics among young adults. His other publications include Against the Tide: Profeminist Men in the United States (1992), Manhood in America: A Cultural History (1996), The Gendered Society (2000) and Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural and Historical Encyclopedia (2003). He is the editor of Men and Masculinities, an interdisciplinary scholarly journal and is also a member of the research proyect of the new masculinities. As well, he is the Spokesperson for the National Organization for Men AGainst Sexism (NOMAS).
López Garachana is a psychologist at the University of America, where she works as a technician for mental patients’ rehabilitation in the psychiatric hospital, Fray Bernardino Álvarez. She is a specialist in transactional analysis in didactic, organizational and clinical areas, and external independent coach of the STPS. She is clinical member of ALAT. She has taught in seminars and worked as an adviser for enterprises, scholarly and sports institutions for twenty-five years and she is author of many books of self-help and thanatology. She was co-founder of the group Grupos de apoyo al Empleo Creativo para desempleados (Support Groups for the Creative Employment of the Unemployed), creator of the Diplomado Escuela para Padres and Diplomado de Inteligencia Emocional (University School for Parents and the School for Emotional Intelligence) and director of the Mexican institute of Training and Human Development. She has also collaborated with several radios in Mexico and Canada. .jpg)
Lugones is Professor of Women’s Studies, Literature and Philosophy at Binghamton University (New York). She graduated from the University of California and holds a PhD in Philosophy and Political Sciences from the University of Wisconsin. She is Director of the Latin-American and Caribbean Studes Programme (Binghamton University). Lugones has published several essays related to race, gender, sexual violence, pluralism and multiculturalism. Her essay “Have We Got a Theory for You!: Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism, and the Demand for ‘The Woman’s Voice’”, (Hypatia Reborn: Essays in Feminist Philosophy, Indiana University Press, 1990) written with Elizabeth Spelman, proposes a critical approach to feminism. Other publications include "Problems of translation in postcolonial thinking", The Inseparability of Race, Class, and Peregrinajes/Pilgrimages: Theorizing Coalition against Multiple Oppressions (New York: Rowman & Littlefield Press, 2003).
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Magallón is Director of the Foundation Seminar for Research into Peace (Centre Pignatelli, Zaragoza). She has a degree in Physics and holds a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science. She is Chair of Physics and Chemistry as a high-school teacher. She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Seminar of Women’s Studies at the University of Zaragoza. She is also a member of the editorial board of the journal En Pie de Paz (Stand up for Peace) and she is Vice-President of AIPAZ (Spanish Research Association for Peace). Her research areas focus on women’s history in science, epistemological analysis of science and relations between gender, science and peace culture. She has published many articles, among them: Mujeres en pie de paz, 2006 (Women Standing up for Peace); El rostro de la violencia. Más allá del dolor de las mujeres, 2002 (The Face of Violence. Beyond the Suffering of Women); Pioneras españolas en las ciencias, 1998 (Women pioneers in Science in Spain).
Somaly Mam is a human rights activist who has dedicated her life to rescuing women and girls from sexual slavery. The 36-year-old Cambodian leads the AFESIP association, a grassroots NGO which works to combat trafficking of women and children into sex slavery. She is known worldwide for her fight against child sexual slavery. In her book, The Silence of Innocence, she retraces her own life story, as dramatic as any of the women she now helps, and interweaves the testimonies and the tragic destinies of the young girls she has encountered. She has devoted her life to rescuing girls and young women from brothels in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam and to fighting for the end of sexual slavery. She has received many international awards in recognition for her work (among them, the very prestigious Spanish award "Premio Príncipe de Asturias") and the “Premio Pilar Miró” woman of the year award. .jpg)
Martín Serrano is Professor of Sociology at Complutense University of Madrid and holds a PhD from the University of Strasbourg. He also holds a PhD in Philosophy and a degree in Philosophy and Lettres and a degree in clinical psychology from Complutense University of Madrid. His lines of work are related to gender and focus on sociohistorical transformations and violence that affects women. His most important works are “Los maltratos que sufren las y los menores en los hogares”, 2007; “Los cambios históricos, los desplazamientos en las posiciones de las familias y las transformaciones generacionales”, 2006; “Cambios en las instancias de socialización: Familia, grupos de iguales, escuela y medios de comunicación”, 2005; and “Estudio de las causas e incidencia de la violencia contra las mujeres desde una perspectiva sociológica”, 2003. He has also published several reports related to violence and articles in specialized journals, and he has participated in national and international conferences.
Mararet Maruani is a French professor of Sociology at the University of Geneve. She is the Director of the European Research Group linked to the National Centre of Scientific Research in France (CNRS). She is the author of various books on trade unionism, labour and employment: Les syndicats à l'épreuve du féminisme (1979), Au labeur des dames, métiers masculins, emplois féminins (1989), Chroniques internationales du marché du travail et des politiques d'emploi (1990), Sociologie de l'emploi (1993), Le travail du genre. Les sciences sociales du travail à l'épreuve des différences de sexe (2003), and Femmes, genre et sociétés. L'état des savoirs (2005). 
Myra Marx Ferree is Martindale Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the Center for German and European Studies. She is a long-time student of women’s movements, especially in the US, Germany, and the EU, but has also worked intensively with students on research projects in Russia, India, South Korea, and Hong Kong. She is the co-author of Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the US (2002) and Controversy and Coalition: The New Feminist Movement across Three Decades of Change (2000); co-editor of Global Feminism: Women’s Activism, Organizing and Human Rights (2006) and Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women’s Movement (1995). She has been a guest professor in Germany at the Goethe University (Frankfurt a/M), the Ruhr University (Bochum) and the Free University (Berlin), and in Australia at Flinders University (Adelaide SA). She was most recently a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and a deputy editor of the American Sociological Review.
She is Chair of the Department of Social Anthropology in the University of the Basque Country. She studied anthropology at the University of Paris VIII and published her first research in 1988, which was her thesis titled Cousas de Mulleres. Campesinas, poder y vida cotidiana, Lugo, 1940-1980 (Matters for Women. Farm Women, Power and Daily Life, Lugo 1940-1980). After her PhD she started teaching at the Faculty of Fine Arts (the University of the Basque Country). The teaching context led her to become interested in the anthropological analysis of the visual arts. From this interest stem some of the following publications: Antropología de la producción artística, 1995 (The Anthropology of Artistic Production, 1955)); Os Labirintos do Corpo. Manipulacións ideolóxicas, saberes científicos e obras de arte, 1998 (The Labyrinth of the Body. Ideological Manipulations, Scientific Knowledge and Works of Art, 1998 ); La antropología ante las artes plásticas. Aportaciones, omisiones, controversias, 2003 Anthropology and the Plastic Arts. Contributions, Omissions and Controversies, 2003 ); Cuerpos sexuados y ficciones identitarias. Ideologías sexuales, deconstrucciones feministas y artes visuales, 2004 (Sexual Bodies and Fictional Identities. Sexual Ideologies, Feminist Deconstructions and the Visual Arts, 2004). Galicia en Europa. El lugar de las artes plásticas en la política cultural de la Xunta, 2004 (Galicia in Europe. The Place of the Plastic Arts in the Cultural Policy of the Galician Government, 2004) or Antropología feminista, 2007 (Feminist Anthropology, 2007). She has also published several chapters in books, among them: “Reflexión sobre la poco común producción de las pequeñas mujeres”, 1989 (Reflections on the uncommon production of small women); "Influencia de la teoría feminista en las Ciencias Sociales: una revisión conceptual", 1993 (The influence of feminist theory on the Social Sciences: A conceptual overview); “Recetarios mágico-científicos al servicio de la estética de la delgadez. Cuerpos de mujeres, cuerpos de hombres”, 1995 (Scientific-magical advice at the service of the aesthetics of thinness. The bodies of women, the bodies of men); “Construir jerarquías: el entramado del poder, del sexo y de la etnicidad en los mundos del arte contemporáneo”, 2002 (Constructing hierarchies: The webs of power, sex and ethnicity in the contemporary worlds of art); “Política cultural: la cultura y el arte como recursos políticos en la construcción de la Unión Europea”, 2003 (Cultural politics: Culture and the arts as political resources in the construction of Europe); “Administrando la desigualdad entre los sexos ¿Los estudios de género a la deriva?”, 2006 (The administration of inequality among the sexes: Gender studies without a future?); “La subversión en imágenes: cuerpos, feminismos y obras visuales occidentales en la década de los noventa del siglo XX”, 2006 The subversion of images: Bodies, feminisms and western visual works in the decade of the 1990s). She has also collaborated with the Galician feminist journals Andaina and Festa da Palabra Silenciada. Throughout all her various researches her approach has always had as a focal point materialist feminist anthropology.
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at ‘Universidad Complutense de Madrid’. She is an ‘Académica de Numero’ at the Royal Academy of Pharmacy as well as of several other scientific associations. Among them the Spanish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM), the European Society for Neurochemistry (ESN) and the International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN). She is also a Member of the Chromaffin Cells Advisory Board, the Purinergic Club, the ‘Journal of Neurochemistry’ Editorial Board as well as the Sub-Committee on Receptor Nomenclature and Drug Classification (IUPHAR) et cetera. She has been involved in organizing several congresses and has participated in numerous national and international symposia; moreover she took part in more than thirty national and international research projects. She has supervised fourteen PhD Theses, thereof five had been awarded with honors. She has published more than a hundred and eighty articles in international journals, specialized on neurotransmission.
Director of the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW).
Soledad Murillo has been the Director of the General Secretary for Equality Politics at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. She has been active in the development of Equality laws in Spain and recently has contributed greatly to the implementation of these laws. Ms Murillo is Professor of Sociology and Communication at Salamanca University in Spain where she has promoted a Women Studies Seminar. She is a well-known figure for Spanish feminists in academia and among women's organizations. She is an expert in social and gender research. She has published extensively on private mass media, citizenship, women's organizations, female employment, equality between men and women, gender violence, immigrant women, rural women, etc.
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., is a Professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, both at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Neumark-Sztainer’s research interests focus mainly on adolescent nutrition and the prevention of weight-related disorders including eating disorders, unhealthy weight control behaviors, and obesity. Her work aims to help young people feel good about themselves and their bodies, and to adopt healthy eating and physical activity behaviors to prevent eating disorders and obesity. Dr. Neumark-Sztainer has published over 150 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. She has recently published a book for parents of adolescents that provides a synthesis of her research and guidelines for helping their children have healthy bodies and body images. Her book is entitled: “I’m, like, SO, fat!” Helping your Teen Make Healthy Choices about Eating and Exercise in a Weight-obsessed World. 
Director of the Women's Studies Department in the Ewha Womans University (Seoul, South Korea) and President of 9th International Interdisciplinar Congress, Women's Worlds 2005. Recently elected President of the Asian Women's Studies Association.
Patricia Powell was born in Jamaica and moved to the United Status in 1982. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and Brown University and the author of The Pagoda, A Small Gathering of Bones, Me Dying Trial. She had recently finished the manuscript of her new novel, The Fullness of Everything. She has taught Creative Writing at Harvard University, at Wellesley College, at Massachussets University in Boston, at the Institute of Technology of Massachussets, and at Houston University. She has been awarded prestigious awards like the Bruce Rossley Prize for Literature, the Ferro-Grumley Prize for fiction and Lila Wallace prize for writers of the Reader’s Digest. Powell lives in San Francisco, California. 
Specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid. She is chief of the Promotion and Education for Health Unit of the Preventive Medicine Service of the Clinic Hospital San Carlos in Madrid. She is president and founder of ADEPS (Association of Education for Health) and FUNDADEPS (Foundation of Education for Health). Member of Rome’s Club. She has developed a wide career in sanitary area, teaching, research and scientific humanism for more than 25 years. She has been chief of the Education for Health Service in the Ministry of Health, president of the Progressive Women Federation, general secretary of ASEMEYA (Spanish association of writers and artists doctors), vice-president of the Directives Women Federation, director of the journals “Cultura de la Salud” and “Mujeres Directivas”. She has been awarded with “Premio Santillana de Experiencias Educativas”, “Premio Dr. Palanca” from the Royal Academy of Medicine, “Premio Rosa Manzano”, “Premio Mujer Directiva del Año” and “Premio ASEMEYA”. Currently she collaborates with several public and private institutions in the management of projects and activities focus on Public Health. 
Professor Salas holds a Doctorate degree in Science (1963) from the Complutense University of Madrid. She carried out post-doctoral work (1964-1967) at the University of New York, under the direction of Severo Ochoa). She has been a