Biography

Christina Maraboutaki is an attorney-at-law and a member of the Athens Bar Association since 2016. She comes from the fields of law, sociology and political science with a specific and clear interest in gender studies.

In 2021 she received her doctoral degree from the Department of Letters and Modern Cultures at Sapienza, University of Rome. In her doctoral thesis, 'Technology and (the Promise of) Pleasure: a Study on Gender, Sexuality and Subjectivity from a Posthuman Perspective', she examined the sex industry's appropriation of robotics, artificial intelligence technology and virtual reality technology, focusing mainly on the gender and sexual connotations of this convergence. Christina also holds an MA in political science and sociology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and an MSc in gender and sexuality studies from Birkbeck, University of London.

As a Max Weber Fellow, Christina is undertaking a research project, 'In Greece Too: Gender Violence and the Greek Women's Movement(s), 1984-2021', focusing on the institutional and public responses to gender and sexual violence in the last few decades in Greece and the role of the feminist and women's movements and LGBTQ community in informing and shaping them. Specifically, she examines the policies and legislation targeting gendered-based violence, including incidents of sexual violence in the country, from the major reform of the Criminal Code in 1984 to the emergence of the Greek #MeToo movement in 2021.