Honorary Doctorate for María Luisa Femenías

This Thursday, UNC bestowed an honorary doctorate to María Luisa Femenías. The award was proposed by the Faculty of Languages mainly because of her extensive academic career and her commitment to the problems of gender, violence and multiculturalism.
The event was attended by the Vice Rector of the UNC, Pedro Yanzi Ferreira, the Dean of the UNC School of Languages, Elena Pérez, and the Minister of Justice and Human Rights of the province of Córdoba, Luis Angulo, among other authorities.

María Luisa Femenías expressed her gratitude for the award and highlighted the importance of receiving it in the International Working Women's Day. In addition, the philosopher referred to the context of the day of feminist struggle that is taking place and pondered the importance of working on gender issues from universities.

"The last years of democratic continuity in our country have given the feminist struggle great visibility. At this moment, I feel that there is an important generational shift. The youngest girls are taking charge of this fight and are the ones who know how far they will go with it," said María Luisa Femenías. And she added: "I think it is essential that the academia encourages other readings, other ways of interpreting and transmitting something that for many years was considered from a single point of view. Producing gender theory allows recognizing underlying causes and problems that did not come to light. And we must produce theory in feedback with feminist movements. "

The ceremony was closed with a speech by María Luisa Femenías entitled "Intellectual labyrinths: the paths of the subject."

Translation: Brenda Schauvinhold