Английская Википедия:Bila Sorj

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Bila Sorj (born 1950) is a Brazilian academic and pioneer of women's studies. Born in Brazil, she made aliyah to Israel to work communally on a kibbutz and earn her bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Haifa. Returning to Brazil in 1976, she taught sociology and began incorporating women's studies into her work at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Completing her PhD at the University of Manchester in 1979, she began teaching at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1984. She completed post-doctorate studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. Her research primarily focuses on employment and the ways that gender affects both paid and unpaid labor. She also studies Judaism. Her 2000 book, Шаблон:Lang (Israel Land in a Trance: Democracy or Theocracy?), was a finalist for the Prêmio Jabuti in 2001. She is the coordinator of the Шаблон:Lang (NESEG, Nucleus for Studies on Sexuality and Gender) in the graduate program of the department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is regarded as one of the academics who opened the field of gender studies in Brazil.

Early life and education

Bila Grin was born in 1950, in Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil to Margarida and Herschel Henrique Grin.Шаблон:Sfn Her parents were naturalized Brazilians and Jewish;Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn her father was from Mandatory Palestine and her mother was from Lithuania.Шаблон:Sfn In 1969, she began her university studies at the University of São Paulo and became involved in the Zionist and socialist movements.Шаблон:Sfn At the time, it was common for young Zionists to travel to Israel and work on a kibbutz before they reached the age of twenty.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She followed this trend,Шаблон:Sfn and transferred her studies in sociology and history to the University of Haifa.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn While there, she met Bernardo Sorj, whom she married in 1970.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She graduated with an undergraduate degree from Haifa in 1972 and continued there with her schooling, earning a master's degree in sociology in 1974.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Career

In 1976, the couple were each hired to work at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.Шаблон:Sfn Bilj taught sociology as an associate professor through 1982, while pursuing her PhD from the University of Manchester.Шаблон:Sfn She completed her thesis The Formation of Ideology Amongst Brazilian Steel Workers in 1979, under the direction of Brian Roberts.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Her thesis presented a theme, which her later studies would continue, of evaluating the working class and the impact social changes had on workers.Шаблон:Sfn During their time in Belo Horizonte, the couple's son, Pablo was born.Шаблон:Sfn Bilj was a founding member of Шаблон:Lang (Violence SOS), an NGO which assisted women who were victims of domestic violence in Minas Gerais and began to incorporate gender and feminist theories in her research.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1984, Sorj began teaching at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.Шаблон:Sfn Her research there focused on the differences that gender imposed on work, evaluating both paid and unpaid labor.Шаблон:Sfn Another focus was the impact of public policies on women and families.Шаблон:Sfn Her pioneering work pressed for the inclusion of gender analysis in mainstream sociological debates and opened the field of gender studies in Brazil.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn For over a decade, she served on the Шаблон:Lang (Research Appropriations Commission on Women and Gender Relations) sponsored by the Шаблон:Ill, to promote academic research into the issues women faced in Brazilian society.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She was one of the founders of Шаблон:Ill (Feminist Studies Magazine), one of the primary Brazilian academic journals on gender, in 1992, and has served on its editorial board.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Sorj became the coordinator of the Шаблон:Lang (NESEG, Nucleus for Studies on Sexuality and Gender) in the graduate program of the department of Anthropology and Sociology.Шаблон:Sfn She also completed research on Judaism in a post-doctorate study in 1995, from the Шаблон:Lang (EHESS, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences), in Paris, on the migration of Russian Jews to Brazil from the time of the 1905 Russian Revolution.Шаблон:Sfn Along with veteran journalist Guila Flint, she wrote, Шаблон:Lang (Israel Land in a Trance: Democracy or Theocracy?), an analysis of Jewish fundamentalism and nationalism and its impact on tensions in the Middle East,Шаблон:Sfn which was a finalist in the 2001 Prêmio Jabuti competition for human sciences. She serves on the Шаблон:Lang (Committee of Gender and Sexuality) of the Шаблон:Lang (ANPOCS, National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences).Шаблон:Sfn

Other research

In her classic work on women's studies in Brazil, Sorj and Maria Luiza Heilborn traced the origins of academic treatment of women in both the United States and Brazil. They noted that they differed, as in the US, the studies emerged from the civil rights and Women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, but in Brazil, the press for inclusion in academia came from academics and later filtered to other women's organizations.Шаблон:Sfn With Verônica Toste Daflon, she wrote Шаблон:Lang (Classics of Social Thought: Women and Feminisms in the 19th Century), which examined the omission of women as social theorists thtoughout history. Among the list of theorists covered in the book were Anna J. Cooper, Шаблон:Ill, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alexandra Kollontai, Harriet Martineau, Pandita Ramabai, Olive Schreiner, and Alfonsina Storni, who were selected to represent each global geographic area.Шаблон:Sfn The women were chosen to expand the dialogue from the known suffrage fight to other issues confronting women, such as sexuality, representation, subordination, and violence.Шаблон:Sfn

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