Ana Amuchástegui

Ana Amuchástegui, PhD (Goldsmiths College) is Full Professor at the Department of Education and Communication in the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico City, and member of the National System of Researchers since 1999. She has conducted extensive qualitative research on subjectivity, sexuality and gender in Mexico, with emphasis on rights related to reproduction and sexuality. During 2007-2012 she headed a team of researchers looking at how different social groups struggle to appropriate and practice said rights. In this project, her emphasis was on the impact of legalization on women’s notions of abortion rights. She has also worked with social organizations in Mexico such as Grupo de Información sobre Reproducción Elegida, Salud Integral para la Mujer, and others. She is the author of “Virginidad e Iniciación Sexual en México. Experiencias y Significados” (EDAMEX) and numerous articles both in national and international journals like Debate Feminista, Sexualities, Reproductive Health Matters, and Men’s Studies. Her most recent publications are “Body and Embodiment in the Experience of Abortion for Mexican Women: The Sexual Body, the Fertile Body, and the Body of Abortion”, in Gender, Sexuality and Feminism (2013), and with Rodrigo Parini “Normalized Transgressions: Consumption, the Market, and Sexuality in Mexico”, in Understanding Sexuality. New Frontiers (2012), edited by Peter Aggleton and Richard Parker. She is currently coordinating a research-action project on women as peer counselors in HIV health services, in conjunction with the Mexico City HIV/AIDS Program and collaborating NGOs. She is reviews editor for Culture, Health and Sexuality and member of the editorial board of Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad. Revista Latinoamericana.