Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė
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Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė | |
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Member of the Seimas | |
In office 16 November 2012 – 14 November 2016 | |
In office 7 July 2009 – 16 November 2012 | |
Preceded by | Vilija Blinkevičiūtė |
In office 15 November 2004 – 17 November 2008 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Kaunas, Lithuania | 6 April 1944
Political party | Liberal Democratic Party (2004-2008) Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (2008-2017) |
Spouse | Rolandas Pavilionis (until 2006; his death) |
Children | Šarūnas Žygimantas |
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Alma mater | Vilnius University |
Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė (born 6 April 1944 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian philologist, professor, human rights activist, feminist writer and politician. She had been a member of Seimas from 2004 to 2008 as a member of Liberal Democratic Party of Lithuania and since 2009 as a member of Social Democratic Party of Lithuania.
Marija Aušrinė was born in the family of actors Vladas Fedotas-Sipavičius and Jadvyga Ramanauskaitė and finished the 23rd Vilnius School. In 1967 she graduated from Vilnius State University, continuing her studies in American literature problems. In 1977 she maintained a thesis for a PhD degree in Philology in Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Her husband Rolandas Pavilionis was a Member of the European Parliament and had been a dean of Vilnius University from 1990 to 2000. The two had two sons, one of whom is an ambassador to the United States.
Political activism and scientific work
[edit]Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė is one of the most well-known LGBT rights activists in Lithuania, the chairman of Ad Hoc Group of Seimas Members for Equality.[1] She is also a prominent feminist thinker[2] and occasionally publishes articles about gender issues.
Pavilionienė was a member of the Groups of Seimas concerning human rights in Tibet and Belarus while in her first term in Seimas.[3]
Bibliography
[edit]- The Universal Literature of the 20th century. (XX amžiaus visuotinė literatūra). Kaunas: Šviesa, 1992;
- Western Literature of the 20th century. (XX a. Vakarų literatūra) Vilnius: Vilnius University, 1994–1995;
- Feminism and Literature (Feminizmas ir literatūra). Vilnius: Vilnius University, 1996;
- The Drama of Genders (Lyčių drama). Vilnius: Vilnius University, 1998;
- Romanticism in Western Literature (Romantizmas Vakarų literatūroje). Vilnius: Vilnius University, 2000;
- The Performances of Life and Theatre: Western Drama of the 20th Century (Gyvenimo ir teatro vaidinimai: XX amžiaus Vakarų drama). Vilnius: Charibdė, 2004;
- Expectancies and Disappointment (Viltys ir nusivylimai). 2011
References
[edit]- ^ Ad Hoc Group of Seimas Members for Equality
- ^ "Home - Experts". Archived from the original on 3 September 2012.
- ^ "Seimo nariai - Marija Aušrinė PAVILIONIENĖ".
- 1944 births
- Living people
- Lithuanian philologists
- Women philologists
- Lithuanian LGBT rights activists
- Lithuanian women activists
- Politicians from Kaunas
- Women members of the Seimas
- Lithuanian feminists
- 21st-century Lithuanian politicians
- 21st-century Lithuanian women politicians
- Writers from Kaunas
- Lithuanian people of Russian descent
- Members of the Seimas