[1] The center is on located at Edifici Florensa, a building in the Campus Diagonal Sur of the University of Barcelona.
The name Duoda was taken from a ninth-century Barcelona countess, Dhuoda, famous for the education manual Liber Manualis she wrote for her sons, who were taken from her.
[2][3] In Spain, Duoda has been central to the introduction of the thinking and politics of sexual differences undertaken by two important and inter-related Italian groups, the Milan Women's Bookstore Collective[4] and Diotima, the Women's Philosophical Community at the University of Verona.
[5] The work and evolution of these two groups was explained in their book, No credere di avere dei diriti, translated into English as,[6][7] The thinking and politics of sexual differences emerged in the late 1960s - in part triggered by Luce Irigaray.
Her thesis, Speculum, posed a critique of western cultural and philosophical structures and beliefs.