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Marcela Lagarde
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| Born | 30 December 1948 Mexico City, Mexico
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| Nationality | Mexican |
| Occupation | Academic, researcher, anthropologist and politician |
| Political party | .svg){kind=logo} PRD |
María Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos (born 30 December 1948) is a Mexican academic, author, researcher, anthropologist, feminist activist and politician affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution. From 2003-2006 she served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress as a plurinominal representative.
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Biography
María Marcela Lagarde was born in 1948 in Mexico City. She earned an undergraduate degree in ethnology and both a Master's and PhD in Anthropology. During her university studies, she participated in the student uprisings known as Mexico 68. She has been a professor of feminist studies at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico) since 1975.
She supported leftist politics first as a member of the Mexican Communist Party (PCM), then the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (PSUM) and Socialist Mexican Party (PMS), before joining the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and being elected to serve in the House of Deputies in 2003. She served as a plurinominal representative until 2006.
She is the president of Red de Investigadoras por la Vida y la Libertad de las Mujeres (Network of Researchers for the Life and Freedom of Women) and coordinator of Cassandra Workshops for feminist anthropological studies.
Feminicide
Lagarde is credited with being the first person to introduce the concept of "femicide" to Latin American audiences.
In 2003, the LIX Mexican Chamber of Deputies established a Special Commission on Feminicide. Lagarde served as the president of the commission directing the research on violence against women in Mexico. After three years of work, in 2006, the commission issued 14 volumes of their research to the legislature, which adopted the term accepting that it points to the State's responsibility. In 2009 the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a verdict against Mexico condemning the failure to protect hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez, who were killed.
Partial works
- (1996) Género y feminismo : desarrollo humano y democracia
- (1998) Claves feministas para el poderío y la autonomía de las mujeres
- (1999) Una mirada feminista en el umbral del milenio
- (2000) Claves feministas para liderazgos entrañables
- (2001) Claves feministas para la autoestima de las mujeres
- (2001) Claves feministas para la negociación en el amor
- (2005) Para mis socias de la vida: claves feministas para el poderío y la autonomía de las mujeres, los lid
See also
In Spanish: Marcela Lagarde para niños
