Teresita de Barbieri

Teresita de Barbieri García (October 2, 1937 – January 21, 2018) was an Uruguayan feminist sociologist, academic, and researcher based in Mexico. A researcher in social sciences and gender studies, she was a pioneer in research on the condition of women in Latin America from the Social Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). A socialist militant, she survived the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and went into exile in Mexico where she developed her research career. A sociologist at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), she researched the daily life of women, the Latin American feminist movement, reproductive health, secularism and, in particular, population and development. She wrote articles for various newspapers and magazines, including Fem magazine and the "La Doble Jornada supplement" of La Jornada newspaper, as well as for Cimacnoticias .

Early life and education Martha Teresita de Barbieri García was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. While her parents and siblings lived in Colonia, she lived at her grandmother's house in the capital between the ages of two and six because of her health problems with tuberculosis. At the age of six, she returned with her parents to Colonia where she completed her elementary school studies. She began her university education at the University of the Republic (UDELAR). Her first studies were in Law and Art History.

Research on the gender category Barbieri's research includes theoretical and methodological questions on gender, in which she analyzed and systematized knowledge on social differentiation based on the social constructions that organize and determine human beings as sexed beings. 2012. Honored by UNAM's Institute of Social Researchfor "sowing the foundations of gender studies in Mexico" in the framework of International Women's Day. Recognition by FLACSO in Chile as an "illustrious personage".

Selected works Books El acceso de las mujeres a las carreras y ocupaciones tecnológicas de nivel medio. Santiago, ELAS-Unesco. (1972) Las unidades agrícolas industriales para la mujer campesina en México Geneva, International Labor Organization (1983).

Articles "La mujer obrera chilena: una aproximación a su studio". With Lucía Ribeiro, Cuadernos de la realidad nacional, 16, (1973), pp. 167-201. "El trabajo doméstico entre obreras y esposas de obreros". Mexico City, UNAM-Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Mimeo, (1980). "Políticas de población y la mujer: antecedentes para su estudio", Revista mexicana de sociología, vol. 45, (1983), no. 1, pp. 293-308. "Las mujeres, menos madres: control de la natalidad: ¿control de la mujer?", Nueva Sociedad, 75, (1985), pp. 105-113. "Sobre la categoría de género: una introducción teórico-metodológica", Debates en Sociología, 18, (1993), pp. 145-169. "Geschlechterverhältnis zwischen Modernisierung und Krise", with Marianne Braig, Mexiko heute. Frankfurt, Vervuert, (1996), pp. 388-408. "Los ámbitos de acción de las mujeres", Narda Henríquez (ed.). Encrucijadas del saber: los estudios de género en las ciencias sociales. Lima, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, (1996), pp. 107-132. "Los ámbitos de acción de las mujeres", Marianne Braig, Ursula Ferdinand, Martha Zapata (eds.). Begegnungen und Einmischungen: Festschrift für Renate Rott zum 60. Geburstag. Stuttgart, Heinz, (1997), pp. 213-233. "Cambio sociodemográfico, políticas de población y derechos reproductivos en México", Adriana Ortiz-Ortega (comp.). Derechos reproductivos de las mujeres: un debate sobre justicia social en México. México, Edamex (1999), pp. 101-145. "Una mirada desde el género a las comisiones legislativas", Revista Cimacnoticias, 9, no. 29 (2003) "Más de tres décadas de los estudios de género en América Latina", Revista Mexicana de Sociología, 66. (October, 2004): pp. 197-214 "Público, doméstico y privado en la Cámara de Diputados.", Imágenes de la familia en el cambio de siglo: universo familiar y procesos demográficos contemporáneos, coordinated by Marina Ariza & Orlandina de Oliveira. Mexico City: UNAM-Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, 2004.

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