Ana de Miguel

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Ana de Miguel Álvarez (born 26 October 1961) is a Spanish philosopher and feminist. Since 2005 she has been a titular professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at King Juan Carlos University of Madrid. She directs the course History of Feminist Theory at the Complutense University of Madrid's {{ill|Instituto de Investigaciones Feministas|es}}.{{Cite web |url=https://www.ucm.es/data/cont/media/www/40067/2018%20FOLLETO%20DEFINITIVO%202018%20(1).pdf |title=Historia de las Teorías Feministas |trans-title=History of Feminist Theory |publisher=Complutense University of Madrid |language=Spanish |access-date=20 December 2018}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.instifem.org/Instituto/Historia/SeminarioFeminismoeIlustraci%C3%B3n.aspx |title=Seminario Feminismo e Ilustración |trans-title=Feminism and Illustration Seminar |publisher=Complutense University of Madrid |language=Spanish |date=2 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702190535/http://www.instifem.org/Instituto/Historia/SeminarioFeminismoeIlustraci%C3%B3n.aspx |archive-date=2 July 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=20 December 2018}}

Biography

Ana de Miguel studied philosophy at the University of Salamanca and received her doctorate at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). In 1984 she completed her thesis Marxismo y feminismo en Alejandra Kollontai.{{Cite news |url=http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/hemeroteca/2006/11/01/5246625.shtml |title='En feminismo, si no evolucionas acabas sirviendo al patriarcado' |trans-title='In Feminism, If You Do Not Evolve, You End Up Serving the Patriarchy' |first=Natalia |last=Bore |work=La Voz de Galicia |language=Spanish |date=1 November 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219075122/http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/hemeroteca/2006/11/01/5246625.shtml |archive-date=19 December 2014 |url-status=dead |access-date=20 December 2018}}

Her doctoral thesis is entitled Elites y participación política en la obra de John Stuart Mill. She has also done research on the relationships between feminism and Marxism, on Flora Tristan, and on the Egyptian feminist Qasim Amin.{{Cite news |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2010/07/10/babelia/1278720760_850215.html |title=Velos arrojados al Nilo |trans-title=Veils Thrown into the Nile |first=Celia |last=Amorós |author-link=Celia Amorós |work=El País |language=Spanish |date=10 July 2010 |access-date=20 December 2018}}

From 1993 to 2005 she worked as a titular professor of Sociology of Gender at the University of A Coruña. In 2005 she joined King Juan Carlos University of Madrid as a titular professor of Moral and Political Philosophy.

Feminist research

File:Ana de Miguel Neoliberalismo y Sexualidad El mito de la libre elección.ogv

She was a member of the Seminar on Feminism and Illustration created by philosopher Celia Amorós, taught from 1987 to 1994 at the Complutense University. The Seminar was transformed into the research and development project Feminismo, Ilustración y Postmodernidad (1995–1999). This work was added to the studies conducted around the History of Feminist Theory course, started in 1990/91 at the Complutense University's {{ill|Instituto de Investigaciones Feministas|es}} (in English: Feminist Research Institute) and directed by Ana de Miguel since 2005, and compiled into the three volumes titled Teoría Feminista. De la Ilustración a la globalización.

From 2012 to 2013 she was director of the Master's program in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at King Juan Carlos University.{{Cite web |url=http://www.urjc.es/estudios/masteres_universitarios/ciencias_juridicas_sociales/estudios_inter_genero/profesorado.pdf |title=Tabla de Profesorado – Curso Académico 2013–14 |trans-title=Teaching Staff – Academic Year 2013–14 |publisher=King Juan Carlos University |language=Spanish |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229020923/http://www.urjc.es/estudios/masteres_universitarios/ciencias_juridicas_sociales/estudios_inter_genero/profesorado.pdf |archive-date=29 December 2014 |url-status=dead |access-date=20 December 2018}}

One of the basic contributions of her thinking is the reconstruction of a feminist genealogy.

She currently works on feminism as a social movement and its construction of new theoretical frameworks for the interpretation of reality. In this regard, she has distinguished between the politics of redefining reality and the policies of protest. Her latest publications focus on the search for clues to understand how sexual inequality propagates in formally egalitarian societies, especially among young people, on the theoretical framework of gender violence, and on prostitution as a "school of human inequality."{{Cite journal |url=http://journals.sfu.ca/redf/index.php/redf/article/view/148 |title=La prostitución de mujeres, una escuela de desigualdad humana |trans-title=The Prostitution of Women, a School of Human Inequality |first=Ana |last=de Miguel |journal=European Journal of Fundamental Rights |issn=1699-1524 |number=19 |pages=49–74 |language=Spanish |year=2012 |access-date=20 December 2018}}

Sexual neoliberalism

In her work Neoliberalismo sexual, de Miguel denounces the neoliberal ideology that aims to turn life, even human beings, into a commodity. She considers that the conversion of women's bodies into merchandise is the most effective means to disseminate and reinforce this ideology, and that the sex industry is connected with it.{{Cite web |url=https://elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/04/mujeres/1446613260_144661.html |title=Contra el neoliberalismo sexual |trans-title=Against Sexual Neoliberalism |first=Octavio |last=Salazar |work=El País Mujeres |language=Spanish |date=4 November 2015 |access-date=20 December 2018}}

In January 2016, she received the First Prize ex aequo from the Social Council of King Juan Carlos University for research excellence in the Arts and Humanities category.{{Cite web |url=https://www.urjc.es/todas-las-noticias-de-actualidad-cientifica/1750-premios-cei-2015-y-del-consejo-social-a-la-excelencia-investigadora |title=Premios CEI 2015 y del Consejo Social a la Excelencia Investigadora |trans-title=2015 CEI and Social Council Awards for Research Excellence |publisher=King Juan Carlos University |language=Spanish |date=27 January 2016 |access-date=20 December 2018}} In February she was honored with the Comadre de Oro award given annually by the {{ill|Tertulia Feminista Les Comadres|es}}.{{Cite news |url=https://www.elcomercio.es/gijon/201602/05/gijon-gusta-comadrear-20160205003102-v.html |title=Gijón le gusta comadrear |trans-title=A Gijón Likes to Gossip |first=Lucía |last=Ramos |work=El Comercio |language=Spanish |date=5 February 2016 |access-date=20 December 2018}} In May 2016, her work was recognized with the Ángeles Durán Award for Scientific Innovation in the Study of Women and Gender granted by the UAM's {{ill|University Institute of Women's Studies|es|Instituto Universitario de Estudios de la Mujer}}.{{Cite web |url=http://www.uam.es/ss/Satellite/es/1242649910548/1242695456520/noticia/noticia/1242695456520.htm |title=La Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ratifica su apoyo a los estudios de género y feministas con la celebración de las XXI Jornadas de Investigación Interdisciplinar y la entrega del VII Premio Ángeles Duran |trans-title=The Autonomous University of Madrid Confirms its Support for Gender Studies and Feminists with the Celebration of the 21st Interdisciplinary Research Conference and the Presentation of the 7th Ángeles Duran Award |publisher=Autonomous University of Madrid |language=Spanish |date=6 May 2016 |access-date=20 December 2018}}

File:Ana de Miguel recibe el Premio Ángeles Durán.JPG

Awards

2015: First Prize ex aequo from the Social Council of King Juan Carlos University for research excellence in the Arts and Humanities category
2016: Comadre de Oro from the {{ill|Tertulia Feminista Les Comadres|es}}
2016: Second Prize at the 23rd Carmen de Burgos Feminist Disclosure Award for the article "La prostitución de mujeres, el harén democrático", published in the Huffington Post 20 January 2015{{Cite news |url=https://www.diariosur.es/malaga-capital/201603/02/obra-sobre-vinculo-teoria-20160303101456-v.html |title=Una obra sobre el vínculo de la teoría feminista y el liberalismo, premio Victoria Kent de la UMA |trans-title=A Work on the Bond of Feminist Theory and Liberalism, UMA's Victoria Kent Award |work=Diario Sur |language=Spanish |date=9 March 2016 |access-date=20 December 2018}}
2016: Ángeles Durán Award for Scientific Innovation in the Study of Women and Gender (7th edition) from the UAM's {{ill|University Institute of Women's Studies|es|Instituto Universitario de Estudios de la Mujer}}
2017: National Rank of the {{ill|Progressive Women's Awards|es|Anexo:Premios Mujeres Progresistas|lt=Progressive Women's Award}} from the {{ill|Federation of Progressive Women|es|Federación de Mujeres Progresistas}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.tribunafeminista.org/2017/10/premios-mujeres-progresistas-2017/ |title=Premios Mujeres Progresistas 2017 |trans-title=2017 Progressive Women's Awards |work=Tribuna Feminista |publisher=Federation of Progressive Women |language=Spanish |date=11 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107141735/http://www.tribunafeminista.org/2017/10/premios-mujeres-progresistas-2017/ |archive-date=7 November 2018 |url-status=dead |access-date=20 December 2018}}

Publications

File:Ana de Miguel y Amelia Valcárcel.jpg and Ana de Miguel at the presentation of the book Neoliberalismo sexual. El mito de la libre elección, Madrid, 24 November 2015]]

=Books=

1993: Marxismo y feminismo en Alejandra Kollontai, Madrid, Complutense University – Community of Madrid
1994: Cómo leer a John Stuart Mill, Madrid, Júcar, {{ISBN|9788433408167}}
2001: Alejandra Kollontai (1872–1952), Madrid, Ediciones del Orto, {{ISBN|9788479232634}}
2002: O feminismo ontem e hoje, Lisbon, Ela por Ela, {{ISBN|972988191X}}
2005: Celia Amorós and Ana de Miguel (eds.), Teoría feminista. De la Ilustración a la globalización (3 vols.), Madrid, Ediciones Minerva, {{ISBN|9788488123534|9788488123633|9788488123558}}
2015: Neoliberalismo sexual. El mito de la libre elección, Madrid, Cátedra, {{ISBN|9788437634562}}
2017: Nuño Gómez, Laura and de Miguel Álvarez, Ana (dirs.), Fernández Montes, Lidia (coord.), Elementos para una teoría crítica del sistema prostitucional, Granada, Editorial Comares, {{ISBN|9788490455043}}

=Editing, prologues, and translations=

File:Ana de Miguel y Celia Amorós.JPG, and Celia Amorós at the round table of the 20th anniversary of the History of Feminist Theory Course, June 2011]]

2000: Critical editing, introduction, and co-translation of the 1825 work Appeal of One Half of the Human Race, Women by William Thompson and Anna Wheleer as La demanda de la mitad de la raza humana, las mujeres, Granada, Editorial Comares, {{ISBN|9788484441885}}
2003: Coauthor: introduction and selection of texts for the work Flora Tristán, Feminismo y socialismo, Anthology, Madrid, Los Libros de la Catarata, {{ISBN|9788483191590}}
2005: Prologue to the work El sometimiento de las mujeres (The Subjection of Women) by John Stuart Mill, Madrid, EDAF, {{ISBN|9788441422643}}
2006: Labrys no. 10, Dossier España, "Études féministes/estudos feministas", University of Brasília
2006: Coordination and introduction of the monograph "Perspectivas feministas en la España del siglo XXI"
2010: Prologue to the work El mito del varón sustentador, by Laura Nuño, Barcelona, Icaria, {{ISBN|9788498881400}}
2011: Introduction to the John Stuart Mill work El voto y la prostitución, Castilla La Mancha, Almud, {{ISBN|9788493718411}}
2012: Prologue to the Gladys Rocío Ariza Sosa work De inapelable a intolerable: violencia contra las mujeres en sus relaciones de pareja en Medellín, National University of Colombia, Bogotá, {{ISBN|9789587611212}}
2013: Prologue to the work La violencia contra las mujeres: el amor como coartada by E. Bosch, V. Ferrer et al., Barcelona Anthropos, {{ISBN|9788415260585}}
2015: Edition of the Alexandra Kollontai work Autobiografía de una mujer sexualmente emancipada y otros textos sobre el amor (The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman), Horas y Horas, Madrid, {{ISBN|9788496004627}}