Sylvia E. Claudio

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Sylvia "Guy" Estrada-Claudio, MD, PhD is the current director of the UP Center for Women's Studies and is an associate professor at the Department of Women and Development Studies, UP Diliman College of Social Work and Community Development. She is both a doctor of medicine and psychology.

She began her life of activism in high school when she started organizing against the dictatorship of then President Ferdinand Marcos. She took up medicine at the University of the Philippines. Even after graduation from medical school, she formed the Medical Action Group to organize health missions to treat psychological trauma and injuries.

Together with Dr. Junice Melgar she founded Likhaan, an organization working with grassroots women on issues of reproductive health and rights. She is also co-chair of the board of the Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights.

She is a much traveled resource speaker on activism, feminism, reproductive rights and sexuality.

Her book Rape, Love and Sexuality: The Construction of Women in Discourse was published by the University of the Philippines Press as part of the UP Press "Read Up!" Campaign.

[edit] Lectures, Workshops and Publications

• "Counter-acting Religious Fundamentalisms and Other Forms of Intolerance: Practical and Theoretical Challenges for the Global Feminist Movement" on March 11, 2008 as part of the UP Centennial Lecture Series

• "The International Women and Health Meetings: Catalyst and End Product of the Global Feminist Health Movement" delivered at the Workshop "Transnationalization of Solidarities and Women Movements" sponsored by the Université de Montréal Political Science Department on April 27-28, 2006

• "There is Nothing Godly about Enforced Motherhood" published in Business World on Feburary 4 and 11, 2008

6/02/2008:

• "A Feminist Alternative for Another World" seminar conducted at the World March of Women at the World Socialist FOrum, held at Porto Alegre, Brazil from January 31 to February 5, 2002

• "The Women’s Movement(s) and Social Movements: Conjunctures and Divergences" together with Aida Santos, presented at Silang, Cavite, May 26-28, 2005.

• "Psychology of the Filipino woman" published in Review of Women's Studies, v.1:2, 1990-1991, p. 1-9.

[edit] Reference

• "Celebrities Join UP Press "Read Up!" Campaign." Tinig.com, 31 August 2002. http://www.tinig.com/v19/v19uppress.html (accessed on 19 March 2008)

[edit] External Links

• Full text of BusinessWorld opinion piece on Manila mayor's policy of banning "artificial contraceptives" in Manila's public health facilities, in terms of human rights, the rule of law, and the politicization of religion

• Paper on the Philippine women's movement presented at "Towards a Democratic, Pluralist and Humanist Framework and Strategy for Social Change", Silang, Cavite, May 26-28, 2005.

• Sun Star Iloilo short profile published March 11, 2008

• Interpares profile

[edit] Citation

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