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Marta Lamas speaking on the presentation of one of her books on Mexico City

Marta Lamas Encabo (born 1947) is a Mexican anthropologist and political science professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and lecturer at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). She is one of Mexico's leading feminists and has written many books aimed at reducing discrimination by opening public discourse on feminism and gender. Since 1990, Lamas has edited one of Latin America's most important feminist journals, Debate Feminista (Feminist Debate). In 2005, she was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Early life

Marta Lamas was born in 1947 in Mexico City to Argentine parents. She studied ethnology at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National School of Anthropology and History) and then completed a master's degree in anthropology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Journalistic endeavors

In 1976, she founded a feminist magazine, Fem, and in 1987, she co-founded the first feminist newspaper supplement in Mexico for the newspaper La Jornada: Doble Jornada (Double Day). In 1990, she founded Debate Feminista (Feminist Debate) a publication aimed at connecting academic feminist theory with the practices of activists in the women’s movement. The publication is a springboard for discussing ideas within the movement to evaluate how they can be brought to the public. Debate has become one of the most important journals in Latin America, because it also prints men's articles. She was a founding member of La Jornada and is a contributing columnist to the magazine Proceso and the Spanish newspaper El País and serves as an editorialist for the newspapers El Processo and Diario Monitor.

Lamas has written numerous books and is a prolific feminist writer.

Activism

In 1990, she founded the Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer (Semillas), (The Mexican Society in Favor of the Rights of Women), which is an organization in which more privileged women can invest in women who have less opportunities. The group sponsors cooperatives and micro-enterprises and offers support centers and work groups which address problems women face, including human rights issues. The organization has expanded to have chapters in 24 of the 31 Mexican states.

Educator

Lamas is a political science professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and lecturer at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico) (ITAM)

In 2000 she founded the Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir (Simone de Beauvoir Leadership Institute), as a feminist organization of civil society with the goal of training social leaders. Its stated mission is one "of contributing to the construction of a democratic society of rights and freedoms, through knowledge, innovation and the training of leadership with social commitment and gender and intercultural perspective."

Selected works

Books

• with Saal, Frida (co-author). La Bella (in)diferencia (The Beautiful (In)difference), 1991 (in Spanish).
• Para entender el concepto de género (Understanding the Concept of Gender), 1998 (In Spanish).
• Cidadania e feminismo (Citizenship and Feminism), 1999 (in Portuguese).
• Diversidad cultural y tolerancia (Cultural Diversity and Tolerance), 2000 (in Spanish).
• De la identidad a la ciudadanía (The Identity of Citizenship), 2000 (in Spanish).
• Ciudadanía y feminismo: compilación de ensayos aparecidos en "Debate feminista"(Citizenship and Feminism: compilation of essays that appeared in "Feminist Debate"), 2001 (in Spanish).
• Feminismo: transmisiones y retransmisiones (Feminism: Transmissions and Retransmissions), 2006 (in Spanish).
• Nuevos horizontes de la interrupción legal del embarazo (New Horizons of the Legal Interruption of Pregnancy), 2005 (in Spanish).
• Feminismo (Feminism), 2007 (In Spanish).
• Miradas feministas sobre las mexicanas del siglo XX (Feminist Perspectives on Mexicans of the 20th Century), 2007 (In Spanish).
• Feminism: Transmissions and Retransmissions, 2011 (In English).

Articles

• “Las dificultades de la diversidad.” Mujeres en Accion (Santiago de Chile) No. 15, (March 1989): pp 30–31 (in Spanish). Database: WorldCat

• ”El espacio del ejercicio ciudadano.” Perinatología y reproducción humana, Vol. 13, No. 1 (January–March 1999): pp 104–11 (in Spanish). Database: WorldCat
• "Usos, dificultades y posibilidades de la categoria genero." Papeles de Poblacion (Mexico): No. 01-55, Año 5, No. 21, (1999) Nueva Epoca: pp 147–178 (in Spanish). Database: WorldCat

• with Ley, Angélica (co-author). “La lucha de los movimientos feministas por despenalizar el aborto en México.” Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, VHS video (2001) (in Spanish). Database: WorldCat

• "Genero y cultura." La Gaceta del Fondo de Cultura Económica. (México) No. 380, (August 2002): pp 38–39 (in Spanish). Database: WorldCat

• "La Real Academia y el "género".(la Real Academia Española de la Lengua recomenda suprimir el término género en contenido de ley contra violencia doméstica)." Proceso, (13 July 2005) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Por un pluralismo sociocultural.(el fundamentalismo islámico en los Países Bajos)(Ayaan Hirsi Ali, diputada; asesinato del cineasta Theo Van Gogh)." Proceso, (13 July 2005) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Compadecer a los políticos.(el papel de los políticos, de acuerdo a principios del autor Hans Magnus Enzensberger)." Proceso, (31 July 2005) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "El "hiyab": entre el fundamentalismo, la identidad y la laicidad.(controversia política y social por prohibírse a musulmanas portar vestido tradicional en escuelas públicas)." Proceso, (31 July 2005) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Ver a través del escándalo.(proceso contra el empresario Carlos Ahumada)(escándalos dentro del Partido de la Revolución Democrática)." Proceso, (31 July 2005) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com

• "Las autoridades de Guanajuato violaron la ley al negar un aborto legal. (La Lucha).(se impide a enferma mental violada abortar)." Fem, (24 May 2006) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Deseo de familia y homosexualidad.(celebración de Congreso Mundial de Familias)." Proceso, (27 June 2006) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "En el camino del bien morir.(Corte de Apelaciones de noveno circuito de Estados Unidos decide que el procurador general no puede enjuiciar a doctores ... estado de Oregon)." Proceso, (27 June 2006) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Observatorio sobre la familia.(Seminario de Familias y Democracia)." Proceso, (27 June 2006) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Procreación: ¿asunto público o privado?(legalización del aborto)." Proceso, (27 June 2006) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "La reunión de la CEPAL.(Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer)." Proceso, (27 June 2006) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "El servicio civil de carrera." Proceso, (27 June 2006) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Cuando uno no puede hablar, entonces debe escribir." Proceso, (28 June 2006) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Génesis de la criminalidad.(La génesis del crimen en México, ensayo de Julio Guerrero; comentarios sobre el crimen en México)." Proceso, (28 June 2006) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com

• "El aborto en la agenda del desarrollo en América Latina" Perfiles Latinoamericanos (México) Vol. 16, No. 31, (January–June 2008): pp 65–94 (in Spanish). Database: WorldCat

• Lamas, Marta (2009). "La despenalización del aborto en México". Nueva Sociedad 220: 154–172,218. ProQuest 199520659.

• "Nestora Salgado: cautiverio injusto." Proceso, (30 April 2014) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "De sirvientas a empleadas." Proceso, (9 May 2014) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Las taquilleras del Metro." Proceso, (2 August 2014) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "¿Prostitución, trata o trabajo?" Nexos, (1 September 2014) (In Spanish). Database: nexos.com.mx [1]
• "El legado de Elena.(Elena Poniatowska recibe el Premio Cervantes)." Proceso, (10 September 2014) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Y en México, Á cuándo?(nueva política laboral sobre la regulación del salario para los trabajadores domésticos en Brasil)." Proceso, (20 September 2014) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Nestora sigue presa.(represalias políticas contra Nestora Salgado, jefa de la Policía Comunitaria de Olinalá)." Proceso, (24 September 2014) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Madres pobres y ricas.(el aborto en la política mexicana)." Proceso, (1 October 2014) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Feminicidios y academia.(conferencia del Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades y el Programa Universitario de Estudios de Género de la UNAM)." Proceso, (7 November 2014) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Hacia una reforma escandalosa.(protección del feto y el derecho a la vida en México)." Proceso, (12 November 2014) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Dignidad del trabajo en el hogar.(derechos laborales de trabajadores domésticos)." Proceso, (14 November 2014) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Cine de mujeres." Proceso, (25 November 2014) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Furia y venganza por Ayotzinapa." Proceso, (25 November 2014) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Mujeres y política neoliberal." Proceso, (11 December 2014) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Paridad y conciliación.(A toda Madre! Una Mirada Multidisciplinaria a las Maternidades en México, seminario)(mujeres que postergan el embarazo para ... profesionalmente)." Proceso, (8 January 2015) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com
• "Retóricas de la Intransigencia." Proceso, (27 January 2015) (In Spanish). Database: amazon.com

See also

In Spanish: Marta Lamas para niños