The America is Woman series presented by Casa América with its first session, Women, sex, gender. Physical autonomy and security of women, tomorrow Friday at 5pm, is dedicated to SDG 5 of the 2030 agenda, with the intention of contributing to the promotion of equality policies and, very specifically, to the empowerment of girls and women.
More than 300 years of claiming and theorising, through feminist thought, have built a conceptual framework and language that has managed to expand and permeate normative and institutional systems to advance women’s human rights. This session proposes a dialogue on the notions of sex and gender and an analysis of the implications of being a woman in the 21st century, particularly in terms of freedom and security. Speakers at the event: Marcela Lagarde (in the photo), professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, anthropologist and researcher, specialising in ethnology, representative of Latin American feminism; Alicia Miyares, philosopher and feminist writer noted for her work on equality and politics, education and citizenship rights, and Morena Herrera, feminist and human rights activist, founding member of the feminist organisation Las Dignas. Moderated by Irune Aguirrezabal Quijera, PhD in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, she has been an advisor or director in the United Nations, governments and NGOs. The event can be followed at this link.
