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Norma Vasallo Barrueta

Education[edit]

She has a bachelor's degree in psychology, a master's degree in applied social studies, and a PhD in psychology from the University of Havana.^[1]

Career[edit]

Vassallo is the head of the Women's Department of the University of Havana and a founder of its Women's Studies Group.^[2][1] At the University of Havana she leads research on the gender aspects of criminology, social sciences, and HIV/AIDS; she has been the president of the Women's Chair since 1998.^[1][3] From 1997 to 2002, she led a collaboration between the University of Havana and Carleton University in Canada.^[1]

She is featured in the 2019 documentary En busca de un espacio by Marilyn Solaya^[4] and appeared on the Cubavisión television program Cosas de Hombres.^[5]

In 2021, she was a recipient of the 60th Anniversary seal of the Federation of Cuban Women presented by Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar and Reinaldo García Zapata.^[6]

Selected publications[edit]

• (Book chapter) An Approach to Cuban Feminist Ideas and Objectives: Echoes from the Past, Voices from the Present, Feminist Philosophy in Latin America and Spain https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401204439_003^[1]
• The economic crisis and women. In memories VIII International Workshop Women in the XXI Century. ISBN 978-959-7074-92-2^[1]
• In Anthology of contemporary Cuban critical thought within the Collection Anthologies of Latin American and Caribbean Social Thought. ISBN 978-987-722-126-8^[1]

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