Eivissa and Formentera present Feminist Classrooms

Under the banner “The empowerment of women. Objective: equality. History and challenges ahead in the feminist agenda”, the islands of Eivissa and Formentera will host Feminist Classrooms (Aules Feministes) from 16 to 18 September 2021.

Particularly note-worthy is a lecture this Friday, held on Formentera.

When: 5.00pm–7.15pm
Where: Insotel Hotel Playa

Welcoming remarks will be made by Consell de Formentera president Alejandra Ferrer. The evening’s presenter will be local equality chief Vanessa Parellada. The event will include be two presentations and a discussion.

5.15pm–6.15pm
Focus: “The legal evolution of women in the context of the family”
Altamira Gonzalo Valgañón, family law specialist; vice-president of Themis.

6.15pm–7.15pm
Focus: “How pornography conditions the sex lives of young women and men”
Rosa Cobo Bedía, professor of Sociology and Gender at the University of La Coruña, president of the International Academic Network for the Study of Prostitution and Pornography
Presenter: Susana Ortega Merino

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The talks will be streamed by Can Ventosa’s Espai Cultural (Cultural Space) and the YouTube channel of the Institut Balear de la Dona (IBdona). In-person attendees can register here.

Last year’s launch of the Feminist Classrooms coincided with the 20th anniversary of the founding of IBdona, the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action and the 40th anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The initiative continues in 2021, celebrating a new milestone: five years since passage of Spanish legislation enshrining equality between women and men.

The Feminist Classrooms are a space for learning and reflection which organisers hope will give way to new initiatives that not only reinforce equality, but also offer tools to reshape the social, economic and cultural structures which, over time, have been a glass ceiling and a sticky floor for female potential.

See the graphic below for details about more lectures scheduled 16–18 September on Eivissa.

15 September 2021
Communications Office
Consell de Formentera

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