Amelia Valcárcel
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| Born | November 16, 1950 |
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| Era | 20th / 21st-century philosophy |
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Amelia Valcárcel (November 16, 1950) is a Spanish philosopher and feminist. She is considered within the “philosophic feminism” as part of the “equality feminism” approach. She has been a member of the Spanish Council of State since 2006, and has been a professor in Moral and Political Philosophy at the National University of Distance Education since 2015.
In recent years she has also been noted for her public activity against the 2023 "Trans Law" [1][2][3][4][5] as well as for other controversies surrounding LGBTQ+ rights.[6][7][8] She has been cited as one of the most visible faces of the TERF movement in Spain, a movement that considers transgender women to be men, and which aims to exclude them from feminist spaces.[9][10][11]
Early life and education
[edit]Valcárcel was born in Madrid. She studied philosophy at the Universities of Oviedo and Valencia, in Spain.
Professional life
[edit]Valcárcel worked at the University of Oviedo for three decades, before becoming Professor in Moral and Political Philosophy at the National University of Distance Education.[12][13]
She has participated and organized numerous seminars and conferences in the fields of Philosophy, moral values and women’s rights. She has been also taken part in national and international panels and boards, as well as playing an advisory role at editorial and journal boards. She was the director of the magazine Leviatán.[14]
Valcárcel is actively engaged in public affairs in Spain.[15] She has performed various public roles, including State Counsellor[16] and vice-president of the Real Patronage of the Museo del Prado.[17] Between 1993 and 1995, she was Counsellor for Education, Culture, Sports and Youth in the regional government of Asturias.
Philosophy and feminism
[edit]Valcárcel’s academic life has been mainly devoted to two academic fields: philosophy and feminist studies.
Within the subject area of Feminist Philosophy, Valcárcel is considered to be part of the equality feminism approach. Her most distinctive contribution to the field of feminist thinking has been to place feminism within the canonic history of political philosophy, especially in her monograph Feminismo en el mundo global (2008). She has written several manuscripts, some of them translated into other languages. Her theoretical thinking is close to that of the equally well-known Spanish philosophers Celia Amorós and Victoria Camps.
Valcárcel takes the philosophical position that the nexus between women is not the nature or essence of themselves, opposite to the difference feminism arguments, it is however the patriarchal and hetero-designation, the role which patriarchal assigns to women (mother, daughter, espouse and prostitute...) and especially the role women occupy in society which has been depicted by men. Likewise, the role and common denominator that all women share is their functional status (submission) different from men.[18]
Writings
[edit]- Hegel y la Ética (1989) (Heguel and Ethic)
- Sexo y Filosofía (1991) (Sex and Philosophy)
- Del miedo a la igualdad (1993) (From Fear to Equality). Finalist of the National Essay Book Prize 1994
- La política de las mujeres (1997) (Women’s politics)[19]
- Ética contra estética (1998) (Ethic against Aesthetic)
- Rebeldes (2000) (Rebels)
- Ética para un mundo global (2002) (Ethic for a global world)
- Hablemos de Dios (2007) (Let’s Talk of God) co-authored with Victoria Camps.
- Feminismo en un mundo global (2009) (Feminism in a global world)
- La memoria y el perdón (2010) (Memory and forgiveness)
Editions
[edit]- El Concepto de Igualdad (The Concept of Equality)
- Los Desafíos del Feminismo en el siglo XXI (The Challenges of Feminism in the 21st Century)
- Pensadoras del siglo XX (Thinkers of the 20th Century)
- El sentido de la Libertad (The Meaning of Freedom)
- El Debate del voto femenino en la Constitución de 1931 (The Debate of Women's Suffrage in the Spanish 1931 Constitution)
- Feminismo, género e igualdad (Feminism, Gender and Equality)
References
[edit]- ^ "Amelia Valcárcel sobre la Ley Trans: "No podemos dañar a nuestros hijos para que cuatro personas conserven sus puestecitos"". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2022-10-18. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
- ^ Debate, El (2023-05-28). "Amelia Valcárcel: «El lobby 'queer' intenta suplantar el movimiento feminista»". El Debate (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-05-28.
- ^ Vallejo, Cristina (2022-12-16). "La filósofa socialista Amelia Valcárcel cierra filas con el PP en la ley trans". Las Provincias (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-05-28.
- ^ Agencias (2021-02-08). "Varias feministas históricas lanzan un manifiesto contra la 'ley trans': "Es reaccionaria"". elconfidencial.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-05-28.
- ^ "Amelia Valcárcel: «Sé lo que es el sexo, lo otro no sé, es un concepto»". La Voz de Asturias (in Spanish). 2021-07-07. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
- ^ Infobae, Por Newsroom (2022-03-25). "They accused UNAM of being a transphobic institution for comments from academics". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2025-05-28.
{{cite web}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ "Amelia Valcárcel desata la polémica al minimizar la persecución talibán a los homosexuales". La Voz de Asturias (in Spanish). 2021-08-19. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
- ^ "Carla Antonelli contraataca duramente a Amelia Valcárcel: «Sigue siendo una tránsfoba de manual»". La Voz de Asturias (in Spanish). 2022-10-20. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
- ^ "Radfems, TERF y el sujeto del feminismo: hablan las mujeres (trans)". www.elsaltodiario.com. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
- ^ Vives Bauçà, Bel (2021-12-01). "Sobre «agendes queer», «lobbies trans» i «sectes mutants»: feminisme trans-excloent a l'Estat Espanyol". Clivatge Estudis i testimonis sobre el conflicte i el canvi socials (9). doi:10.1344/CLIVATGE2021.9.13. ISSN 2014-6590.
- ^ Solís, Raúl (2022). La batalla trans. Barcelona: Bellaterra. ISBN 978-84-18684-34-0.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "El debate. Amelia Valcarcel". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ^ "Spanish stereotypes: statistics tell us they have Mondays, too". Europa.
- ^ "Leviatán, revista de hechos e ideas 1978-".
- ^ J, j. m. (19 November 2014). "Amelia Valcárcel analiza en Valencia la relación entre religión y democracia". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ^ "Web oficial". Consejo de Estado - España (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 February 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ^ "Enciclopedia on line". Museo Nacional del Prado (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ^ Torralvo, Malen Aznarez (2006). "Una filósofa en Combate". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ^ "The Furious Gaze " Archived 2009-02-05 at the Wayback Machine. Frieze, issue 116.
External links
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- Amelia Valcarcel website
- Older archived Amelia Valcarcel website
- Pienso luego existo - Amelia Valcarcel Chapter RTVE series in which Amelia Valcarcel talks about her philosophical thought.
- Una filósofa en combate Interview "El País" November 2006
- International authorities file
- 1950 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Spanish philosophers
- 20th-century Spanish women writers
- 20th-century Spanish writers
- 21st-century Spanish philosophers
- 21st-century Spanish women writers
- Anti-pornography feminists
- Continental philosophers
- Feminist studies scholars
- Scholars of feminist philosophy
- Spanish gender studies academics
- Spanish feminist writers
- Recipients of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise
- Spanish women philosophers
- People from Madrid
- Spanish political philosophers
- Spanish women critics