Rosa Cobo Bedía


Rosa Cobo Bedía is a Spanish feminist, writer, and professor of sociology of gender at the University of A Coruña. She is also the director of the Center for Gender Studies and Feminists at the same university. Her main line of research is feminist theory and the sociology of gender.

Early years and education

Rosa Cobo Bedía was born in Cantabria, 17, December 1956. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Political Sciences and Sociology in 1981 from the Complutense University of Madrid. She obtained her master's degree in 1983 with the thesis, El principio de Renaturalización en Jean Jacques Rousseau. In 1992, she read her doctoral dissertation on Democracia y Patriarcado en Jean Jacques Rousseau, directed by Dr. Celia Amorós and graduated cum laude with honours.

Career

Cobo was founder and first director of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Feminist Studies of the University of A Coruña between 2000 and 2003. She also directed the Master program on Gender and Equality Policies from 2005 to 2008. Her main line of research is feminist theory and the sociology of gender. She has been a member of the Advisory Team of the Women and Science Unit of the Ministry of Education in the General Secretariat of Scientific and Technological Policy. In 2008, she was an advisor to the Ministry of Equality. She has taught courses and conferences on gender sociology and feminist theory in Spain and in different countries of Latin America. She directed a project on Prostitution and Public Policies funded by the Institute for Women. She directs the course on the History of Feminist Theory at the University of A Coruña, and a master's degree in Equality and Equity in the Development of Cooperation at the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia.

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