Norma Vasallo Barrueta (sometimes Norma Vasallo) is a Cuban feminist researcher and academic, and the head of the Women's Department of the

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Education

She has a bachelor's degree in psychology, a master's degree in applied social studies, and a PhD in psychology from the

Career

Vassallo is the head of the Women's Department of the University of Havana and a founder of its Women's Studies Group. At the University of Havana she leads research on the gender aspects of criminology, social sciences, and HIV/AIDS; she has been the president of the Women's Chair since 1998. From 1997 to 2002, she led a collaboration between the University of Havana and

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in Canada. She is featured in the 2019 documentary ''En busca de un espacio'' by Marilyn Solaya and appeared on the

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television program ''Cosas de Hombres.'' In 2021, she was a recipient of the ''60th Anniversary seal'' of the Federation of Cuban Women presented by Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar and Reinaldo García Zapata.

Selected publications

* (Book chapter
''An Approach to Cuban Feminist Ideas and Objectives: Echoes from the Past, Voices from the Present''
Feminist Philosophy in Latin America and Spain https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401204439_003 * ''The economic crisis and women. In memories VIII International Workshop Women in the XXI Century''. ISBN 978-959-7074-92-2 * ''In Anthology of contemporary Cuban critical thought within the Collection Anthologies of Latin American and Caribbean Social Thought''. ISBN 978-987-722-126-8

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vasallo, Norma Living people University of Havana alumni Cuban feminists Cuban women activists 20th-century Cuban women writers Cuban women's rights activists Academic staff of University of Havana Year of birth missing (living people)