Ana Cristina Santos

Ana Cristina Santos is a Research Fellow in the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, and she is a member of the Intimate Citizenship research grouping within BISR (www.bbk.ac.uk/bisr/research/intimate). Her post at Birkbeck involves working with a team of researchers on the Intimate Citizenship workpackage of FEMCIT – Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: the impact of contemporary women’s movements (www.femcit.org). FEMCIT is a large EU funded research programme which involves 15 partners from across Europe. Cristina is responsible for the research on transformations in intimate citizenship in Portugal.

With a background in Sociology (BA and MA, University of Coimbra, Portugal), Cristina holds a PhD in Gender Studies from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (CIGS) at the University of Leeds (2004-2008). Her thesis addressed the political, legal and social impacts of LGBT activism in Portugal. Before starting her PhD in the UK, she carried out research on sexualities, women’s rights and social movements in the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal. She has published widely on these topics.

An activist as well as an academic, Cristina was the general coordinator of the Campaign “Making Waves – Portugal 2004” which focused on reproductive rights, and she was a founding member of the organization Não Te Prives (Don’t Deprive Yourself – Group for the Defence of Sexual Rights) in Portugal.

Principal publications

Books:

2008 – Co-editor of Bound and Unbound: Interdisciplinary Approaches do Genders and Sexualities. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2005 – A Lei do Desejo: Direitos Humanos e Minorias Sexuais em Portugal. [The law of desire: human rights and sexual orientation in Portugal] Porto: Afrontamento.

Special Issues of Journals:

2006 – Editor of Queer Studies: Identities, Contexts and Collective Action, a thematic issue of Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, n. 76 (December 2006).

2006 – Heteronormatividades: formas de violência simbólica e factual com base na orientação sexual e na identidade de género [Heteronormativities: forms of symbolic and physical violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity], Revista Portuguesa de História, t. 37, thematic issue: Forms and Contexts of Violence, pp. 281-298.

2004 – Sexual orientation in Portugal: towards emancipation, South European Society and Politics, Vol. 9, n. 2 (special issue: B. S. Santos and J. A. Nunes (eds.), Reinventing Democracy: Grassroots Movements in Portugal). London: Frank Cass, pp. 159-190.

Chapters:

2007 – Feminismos e Lesbianismos: notas para uma tradução (ou alicerces de uma ponte por reconstruir) [Feminism and Lesbianism: contributions to a translation], Lígia Amâncio, Manuela Tavares and Teresa Joaquim (eds.), Feminismos 80 Anos Depois. Lisboa: D. Quixote, pp. 336-348.

2004 – Direitos Humanos e Minorias Sexuais em Portugal: o Jurídico ao Serviço de um Novo Movimento Social, Fernando Cascais (ed.), Indisciplinar a Teoria. Estudos Gays, Lésbicos e Queer. Lisboa: Fenda, pp. 143-182.

2004 – (co-authored by Paulo Jorge Vieira), Do outro lado da ponte: movimentos sexuais e direitos humanos no século XXI [From the other side of the bridge: sexual movements and human rights in the 21st century], César Augusto Baldi (ed.), Os direitos humanos na sociedade cosmopolita [Human Rights in the Cosmopolitan Society]. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Renovar, pp. 623-651.

2003 — Orientação sexual em Portugal: para uma emancipação [Sexual orientation in Portugal: towards emancipation], Boaventura de Sousa Santos (ed.), Reconhecer para Libertar: os Caminhos do Cosmopolitismo Multicultural. Colecção Reinventar a Emancipação Social. Vol. 3. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record. Also published in Portugal – Porto: Afrontamento, 2004.

Journal Articles:

2006 – Entre a academia e o activismo: sociologia, estudos queer e movimento LGBT em Portugal [Between academia and activism: sociology, queer studies and LGBT movement in Portugal], Queer Studies: Identities, Contexts and Collective Action, a thematic issue of Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, n. 76 (December 2006), pp. 91-108.

2003 – Entre natureza e (re)construção: da sexualidade reprodutiva às sexualidades emancipatórias [Between nature and (re)construction: from reproductive sexuality to emancipatory sexualities], Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 19(4). Ministério da Saúde, Brasil (July-August).

2002 — Sexualidades politizadas: o activismo nas áreas da sida e da homossexualidade em Portugal [Politicised sexualities: AIDS and gay activism in Portugal], Cadernos de Saúde Pública, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 595-611. Ministério da Saúde, Brasil (May-June 2002).

2001 — (co-authored by Fernando Fontes), O Estado português e os desafios da (homo)sexualidade [The Portuguese state and the challenges of (homo)sexuality], Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 59, pp. 173-194.

April 2001 — Ética feminista [Feminist ethics], Revista Ex Aequo, Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Sobre as Mulheres (APEM).

Online:

2005 – Heteroqueers contra a heteronormatividade: notas para uma teoria queer inclusiva [Straight-queers against heteronormativity: towards an inclusive queer theory], Oficina do CES, n. 239, November 2005. Online version: http://www.ces.uc.pt/publicacoes/oficina/239/239.php.

2002 — Portuguese Law and Sexual Orientation, European Union Accession Monitoring Program http://www.eumap.org/journal/features/2002/april02

Email: c.santos@bbk.ac.uk