Lídia Puigvert
Lídia Puigvert (born 29 May 1970) is a Colombian lecturer of sociology at the University of Barcelona. She is a feminist author known for her theoretical contributions to dialog feminism 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. Due to her relevant contributions in gender studies, she was appointed as a consultant for European research projects such as IMPACT-EV, INCLUD-ED, and WORKALÓ. 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". 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. Lídia Puigvert was born in Bogotá on 29 May 1970 and was raised in Malgrat de Mar, a coastline village of Maresme. 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, where there were neither mechanisms of detection nor prevention of gender  violence. 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. During the course of this smear campaign, Puigvert's husband, Jesús Gómez, died. 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. 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 in 2010. Puigvert also developed the preventative socialization of gender violence concept, 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 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. External links. Lídia Puigvert: academic profile