My first book explains the constitutional reform introducing gender parity in electoral politics in France: L'égalité introuvable, la parité, les féministes et la République published by Presses de Sciences-po (Paris) in 2007. French feminists and female politicians believed that the invention of a new legal concept to redefine gender equality, the concept of parité (parity, equality in numbers), would ensure, after two centuries of political exclusion, the inclusion of French women within the political realm.  Click here for more

Since then, I have worked on the tension between women's rights and minority rights in the context of two political controversies: the "sharia" courts in Ontario, Canada, and the headscarf in public school in France.  I have also worked on antidiscrimination policies, especially ethnic diversity policies in the French workplaces

Gender and Politics

Governing Minorities

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Fall 2010: undergraduate course POL 3910 “Femmes et politique” (women and politics) and POL3908 “Comparative politics: multiculturalism”

Summer 2011: graduate seminar POL6630: “Politique comparée, enjeux contemporains” (multiculturalist policies).

I joined the department of political science of Montreal University in June 2008. My research interests focus on gender and politics, feminist movements and feminist theory, equality and antidiscrimination policies, as well as multiculturalism in a comparative perspective

Book:

L'égalité introuvable, la parité, les féministes et la Républiques, Presses de Sciences po, Paris: 2007.

About my book: an interview at Sciences-po Paris’ school of journalism, click here

Articles:

To see a list of my publications on feminist theories and feminist movements, on parity reform and gender quotas in political representation, click here

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