Eléonore Lépinard is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique (ENS Cachan-Paris). She has been a fellow at the Canadian Research Chair in Citizenship and Governance (Université de Montréal) as well as a Fulbright fellow at the Institute on Research on Women (Rutgers University, N.J). In 2006 she was appointed invited professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal were she taught political theory and gender and politics. She received her Ph.D in sociology from the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (Paris-2004). Her research interests include sociology of law, feminist theory, women’s/social movements, gender quotas in political representation, the politics of antidiscrimination and intersectionality.
She has recently published “The Contentious Subject of Feminism: Defining Women in France from the Second Wave to Parity” in Signs, 32(2), 2007; and she has co-edited an issue of the journal Cahiers du genre (no 39) on French feminisms. Her first book L’égalité introuvable. La parité, les féministes et la République (Elusive equality. Parity, the feminists and the Republic) has just been released in 2007 by the Presses de Sciences Po (Paris).
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