Ana Vasquez Bronfman
Country:
Chile
Company:
Education
Her father, Samuel Bronfman was from Bessarabia. Ana Vasquez Bronfman exi-
led from the country during the dictatorship in 1973, she relocated to Paris, where she worked as a professor and researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research.
Much of her literary work centered on the cultural heritage of Jews in predominantly
Catholic Latin America, the effects of military dictatorship on human rights and ra- cial prejudices and exile. Her research evaluated the psycho-sociology of children and women's sexuality. She won a National Book prize in Chile for her fiction and a bronze medal from the French National Center for Scientific Research for her scholarship.
Her academic works focused on child psychology and she often evaluated the psychosocialdevelopment of children through organizations and public institutions, publishing several books on the topic.
After her retirement from the National Center for Scientific Research in 1998, she received the center's bronze medal for research and was awarded an Honorary
Degree for her research on women's sexuality. This last work Amor y sexualidad en las personas mayores: Trasgresiones y secretos (Love and Sexuality in the Elderly: Transgressions and Secrets, 2006) contrasted and compared the sexual experiences of twenty individuals as they aged. Subjects were from France and Spain and were an equal representation ofmale and female subjects.