Alicia Puleo

Alicia Helda Puleo García (born 30 November 1952) is an Argentine-born feminist philosopher based in Spain. She is known for the development of ecofeminist thinking. Among her main publications is Ecofeminismo para otro mundo posible (Ecofeminism for Another Possible World; 2011). Alicia Puleo holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid and is a Profesora Titular (associate professor) of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Valladolid. She is a member of the latter university's Council of the Chair of Gender Studies, and of the Council of the Complutense University's Instituto de Investigaciones Feministas (in English: Feminist Research Institute). She directed the Chair of Gender Studies at the University of Valladolid for a decade (2000–2010) and has coordinated several seminars at the Instituto de Investigaciones Feministas, including the Discurso sobre la sexualidad y crítica feminista (Discourse on Feminist Sexuality and Criticism) and Feminismo y ecología (Feminism and Ecology). Puleo has combined her teaching career with research and the publication of numerous books and articles on inequality between men and women, gender, and feminism. She was a finalist for the National Essay Award for the book Dialéctica de la sexualidad. Género y sexo en la Filosofía Contemporánea (Dialectic of Sexuality: Gender and Sex in Contemporary Philosophy; 1992). In 2004, she coordinated editing of the book Mujeres y Ecología: Historia, Pensamiento, Sociedad (Women and Ecology: History, Thought, Society), which included the relationship between the environmental movement and the feminist movement and different experiences in Spain and the international arena. In 2011 Puleo published Ecofeminismo para otro mundo posible (Ecofeminism for Another Possible World), a work in which in addition to collecting the history of ecofeminism and analyzing the contributions of the feminist movement to the environmental, not always recognized, she develops her proposal of what she has called a critical or enlightened ecofeminism.