In 2013, the University of Franche-Comté appointed an equal employment opportunities officer to plan a project on gender equality on a European scale. On October 8th 2015, the Equality and Parity Commission met and the professors-researchers were invited to express their own views on the issue of gender equality. They described some « experiences » they had in the workplace; these ended up resembling a variety of situations that are giving life to a « trouble » about gender (Dewey, 1967). The challenge for the newly appointed officer is to create a project that is relatively vague, « flou », and comprehensive (Latour, 1992); this is to bring together a large number of questions and resources to resolve this variety of situations.This thesis is based on the observation of the setting up, implementation and finalization meetings for the creation of the interregional project « Laboratoire de l’égalite » between the University of Franche-Comté and the University of Geneva. It then seeks to […]

Projet de thèse en Sociologie, démographie Sous la direction de Lionel Arnaud et de Aurelien Olichon. Thèses en préparation à Toulouse 2 , dans le cadre de Temps, Espaces, Sociétés, Cultures (TESC) , en partenariat avec LaSSP – Laboratoire des Sciences Sociales du Politique (EA 4175) (equipe de recherche) depuis le 03-10-2022 .

Over the last three decades, the issue of the feminist ‘subject’ has substantially been put forward by feminist theorists, in the wake of post-structuralism. Feminist political togetherness as well as the universality of feminist claims have been called into question. Among the profusion of voices which compose post-structuralist feminism one statement emerges as a rallying point: feminist theorizing has to be anti-essentialist and avoid at all costs to turn its own subject into an essence. However, I contend that the vagueness of this recommendation raises more problems than it solves. Thus in the second part of this essay I establish a set of prescriptive guidelines as to what would be good feminist theorizing. I then outline the main characteristics of a pragmatic approach: one that makes political praxis for social change a standard for feminist theorizing as well as a primary source for theoretical problems. Using a combination of Foucauldian archaeology and field philosophy, […]