Mari Luz Esteban Galarza (Coordinator)

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MARI LUZ ESTEBAN gained a bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery (UPV/EHU, 1983) and was a Family Planning doctor in Basauri (Bizkaia). In 1993 she gained a doctorate in cultural anthropology at the University of Barcelona, with a thesis on the field of (reproductive) health and gender. In 1994 she joined the University of León (1994-1996) and, later, the Public University of Navarre (1996-1998) and since 1988 she has been at the UPV/EHU, where she is a tenured lecturer in Social Anthropology and in charge of the Doctoral Programme in Feminist and Gender Studies at the same university.

After her doctoral thesis, she began to develop a new theoretical-methodological perspective –anthropology of the body—whose most important publication is Antropología del cuerpo. Género, itinerarios corporales, identidad y cambio (Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 2004).  In 2011, as the result of an interdisciplinary project on love, she published a book, Crítica del Pensamiento Amoroso (Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 2011), in which she rereads theoretically romantic ideology as well as offering an ethnography on love and gender.

Her works are focused academically but also socially and politically, especially in the feminist realm.

She heads the AFIT-Antropologia Feminista Ikerketa Taldea Research Group.