Teresita de Barbieri

Teresita de Barbieri García (Montevideo, October 2, 1937 – Mexico City, 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 Institute of Social Research 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 (CIMAC). Provided by Wikipedia