During the course 1989-1990 an interdisciplinary research group is created: GREC (gender, race, ethnic group and class). This initiative was originated from teachers of different specialities (Anthropology, History, Philology), who had the will of working continuously and organising common interests, so far only individual ones, with the same objective: gender, race, ethnics and class studies. Trough teaching activities, publications, research lines, articles, congresses or conferences, our group started with the intention of motivating those studies from diverse perspectives (history, comparative history, literary history, philology, language, anthropology, communication media, cultural studies, etc.)
GREC (gender, race, ethnics and class) because we understand gender is the cultural construction of sex and we reject its perversion in any type of sexism; race and ethnics as human being divisions according to common features and we reject their perversion in any type of racism: class as a social category and we reject its perversion in any type of classism.

GREC want to thank in a public way to Mrs. Marta Rourich, graphics designer, for the permission to use her poster Iguales, presented in the second edition of the 2005 Woman International Day poster contest organised by The Woman Catalonian Institute, with the aim of including it in this web site.

The teachers who started the group (Dolors Comas d'Argemir, Coral Cuadrada, Elisabet Hungtinford, Elizabeth Russell, Montserrat Sanmartí, Joana Zaragoza) consider as an important issue the fact of widening the perspectives of GREC with the aim of wining diverse contributions at the moment of working with multidisciplinary fields. Now, GREC count with specialists from other disciplines (Archaeology, Architecture, Biochemistry, History-graphic Sciences and Techniques, Cinema, Law, Business, Art History, Nursery, Medicine, Pedagogy, Psychology, Sociology and Social Working)
The interdisciplinary group bases its works from clear lines:
- Research, publications and organisation of seminars, workshops and Congresses
- Implantation of gender studies at the Rovira and Virgili University participating in other seminars with similar objectives.
- Collaboration and participation in national and international gender studies networks to promote the interchange of experiences and to influence the academic curriculum and the cultural constructions of the society.

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