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Manuela Tavares has a PhD in Women's Studies, on the subject of "Feminisms in the second half of the 20th century in Portugal". She is a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, a collaborating researcher at the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Relations at Universidade Aberta and the coordinator of the Elina Guimarães Feminist Archive and Documentation Centre.
She was also a member of the Promoting Committee and the Organising Committee of the 2008 Feminist Congress, held in Lisbon at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, a member of the Organising Committee and the Promoting Committee of the Evocative Seminar of the 1st Feminist and Education Congress (2004), as well as a member of the Delegation of Portuguese NGOs to the United Nations Conference on Women's Rights in Beijing (1995), having been the Portuguese Representative in the European Women's Lobby between 1992 and 1996, as well as President of UMAR - Union of Women Alternative and Response from 1989 to 1996.
She is the author of several works on themes related to Women's Studies, Gender Studies and Feminist Studies.
