Lela Gaprindashvili

Education: Philosopher

Position: Professor at Ivane Javakhishvili State University

Research interests: History of "women's issue" and women's movement in Georgia, literature and feminist criticism, politics and feminist criticism, gender problematics and women's researches.

Languages: Russian, English

City: Tbilisi

E-mail: lelag[at]gol.ge

 

Biography:

Women's rights defender, head of the union "Women's Initiative for Equality". She is the author of researches and articles about the history of gender, women's and feminist problems in Georgian culture. She is one of the initiators of integration of "Gender Studies" into the high education system. She is reading classes for bachelor and master students at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University for more than 10 years.