Mirta González Suárez

González Suárez was born in San José, Costa Rica, in 1948.{{Cite web|url=http://heredia-costarica.zonalibre.org/2015/01/mirta-gonzalez-suarrez.html|title=Mirta González Suárrez - El arte literario y su teoría|website=heredia-costarica.zonalibre.org|access-date=2020-01-02}} She earned her PhD in psychology from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1987, with a dissertation on sexism in Costa Rican education.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XqT9vgEACAAJ&q=Mirta+Gonz%C3%A1lez+Su%C3%A1rez|title=Sexismo y educación escolar en Costa Rica|last=Suárez|first=Mirta González|date=1987|publisher=Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Psicología|language=es}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CzmpDAAAQBAJ&dq=Mirta+Gonz%C3%A1lez+Su%C3%A1rez&pg=PA557|title=A New Psychology of Women: Gender, Culture, and Ethnicity, Fourth Edition|last=Lips|first=Hilary M.|date=2016|publisher=Waveland Press|isbn=978-1-4786-3370-9|page=557|language=en}} While pursuing her doctoral studies, she earned a Fulbright Award, which she used to compare sexism in American and Costa Rican texts.

González Suárez is a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Costa Rica.{{Cite web|url=https://www.informa-tico.com/7-12-2016/mirta-gonzalez-su-novela-gobernadora-ganan-premio-palabra|title=Mirta González y su novela "La Gobernadora" ganan premio UNA Palabra|website=Informa-Tico|language=es|access-date=2020-01-02}} Her research interests include sexism in education, discrimination, and political psychology.{{Cite web|url=https://catalat.org/book-author/mirta-gonzalez-suarez/|title=Mirta González-Suárez|website=Latin American University Presses Rights Catalog|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-02}} She has published more than 50 works in Spanish, including books and peer-reviewed articles.

González Suárez was the first director of the University of Costa Rica/National University of Costa Rica joint Women's Studies graduate program. She was the deputy director of the Centre for Research in Women's Studies at the University of Costa Rica. In 1993, she chaired the organizing committee for the Fifth International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, held in San José. In 2008 a writing award in her name was created at the University of Costa Rica.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucr.ac.cr/noticias/2008/10/14/rinden-homenaje-a-profesora-mirta-gonzalez.html|title=Rinden homenaje a profesora Mirta González|website=Universidad de Costa Rica|language=es|access-date=2020-04-27}}

González Suárez published her first novel, Crimen con sonrisa (Crime with a Smile), in 2013; it was awarded Costa Rica's Aquileo J. Echeverria National Literary Award. Her 2016 novel, La Gobernadora (The Governor), won the UNA Palabra Prize from the National University of Costa Rica.

• {{Cite book|title=Estudios de la mujer: conocimiento y cambio (Women's Studies: Knowledge and Change)|last=González Suárez|first=Mirta|date=1988|publisher=Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana|isbn=9977-30-112-3|oclc=19628865}}
• {{Cite book|title=El sexismo en la educación: la discriminación cotidiana (Sexism in Education: Everyday Discrimination)|last=González Suárez|first=Mirta|date=1990|publisher=Editorial UCR|isbn=9977-67-123-0|location=San José, Costa Rica|oclc=22662864}}
• {{Cite book|title=Psicología política (Political Psychology)|last=González Suárez|first=Mirta|date=2008|publisher=Editorial UCR|isbn=978-9968-936-78-1|location=San José, Costa Rica|oclc=422754297}}

• {{Cite journal|last=González Suárez|first=Mirta|date=2002|title=Feminismo, academia y cambio social (Feminism, academia and social change)|journal=Educación|volume=26|issue=2|pages=169–183|doi=10.15517/revedu.v26i2.2913|issn=2215-2644|doi-access=free}}
• {{Cite journal|last=González Suárez|first=Mirta|date=2011|title=Agenda política del movimiento de mujeres: demandas de inicios del siglo XXI (Political agenda of the women's movement: Demands from the beginning of the 21st century)|url=http://repositorio.ciem.ucr.ac.cr/jspui/handle/123456789/304|journal=Revista Reflexiones|volume=90|issue=1|pages=9–22}}
• {{Cite journal|last=González Suárez|first=Mirta|date=2013|title=Psicología política y feminismo (Political psychology and feminism)|url=http://pepsic.bvsalud.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-549X2013000300007&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=es|journal=Revista Psicologia Política|volume=13|issue=28|pages=507–523}}

• {{Cite book|title=Crimen con sonrisa (Crime with a smile)|last=González Suárez|first=Mirta|publisher=Editorial UCR|year=2013|isbn=978-9968-46-392-8|location=Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio, Costa Rica|oclc=882283084}}
• {{Cite book|title=La gobernadora (The Governor)|last=González Suárez|first=Mirta|publisher=EUNA|year=2017|isbn=978-9977-65-485-0|location=Heredia, Costa Rica|oclc=1021956928}}
• La independencia (2021), Juegos Florales Hispanoamericanos de Quetzaltenango[http://repositorio.ciem.ucr.ac.cr/handle/123456789/344 Repositorio temático: La Independencia]

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