History of Women, Gender and Sexuality Seminar
Dr. Ana Livia Cordero, Social Medicine, and the Puerto Rican Liberation Struggle
registration required at no cost
17 December 2019.Tuesday, 5:15PM - 7:30PM
Sandy Placido, Queens College, CUNY
Comment: Susan Reverby, Wellesley College
Born in San Juan in 1931, Ana Livia Cordero was a trailblazing physician and activist-intellectual whose life illuminates the crucial role Puerto Ricans played in Cold War-era freedom struggles. Cordero worked as a physician, public health advocate, and radical organizer in New York, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Ghana, Egypt, and Nicaragua for over four decades. Using a new framework of feminist social medicine, this essay examines Cordero’s contributions to the field of social medicine, particularly maternal and children’s health.
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