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Simone de Beauvoir Institute Institut Simone-De Beauvoir 2013-2015 REPORT
Index Foreword from the Principal 02 Who we are 04 Undergraduate highlights 06 New things at the Institute 10 Institute events 12 Lillian Robinson Scholars 14 Public positions 16 Full-time faculty highlights 18 Fellow highlights 30 Part-time faculty highlights 38 Research associates highlights 46
foreword from the principal
As I am completing my 6th year and second term as the successful launch of two issues of our students’
Principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute (SdBI), journal, Subversions (Spring 2014 and Spring 2015);
I am proud to report that the SdBI has maintained and our students’ strike (Spring of 2015) in solidarity
its distinguished record in teaching, research grants against the government’s austerity measures.
and publications, as well as in service to the wider
community. I am extremely grateful to all the part- In the last two years, at the UNDERGRADUATE
time and full-time professors, Fellows, Research LEVEL, our programs have continued to attract an
Associates, and members of the Women’s Studies increasing number of applicants. This means that
Student Association, who have shared their our student body has in fact increased by about
perspective and experience as members of our 5% every single year in the last 6 years! Full-time
committees or participants in our events. Their and part-time professors have teamed-up to offer
wonderful contributions keep our Institute vibrant. demanding and cutting-edge courses. September
I also owe gratitude to Linda Bowes, our Program 2013 marked the continuation of our four refreshed
Secretary, and our Events Coordinator and and strengthened programs. The Curriculum
Information Officer, Michelle Lacombe: their tireless Committee has also advanced its work for our
efforts have made my work so much easier and their proposal for a new Major in Interdisciplinary Studies
help has rendered possible the present report. in Sexuality, which has been unanimously approved
at Concordia Senate and which is currently being
Our Institute space has not changed and is still evaluated by the Ministry of Education.
inadequate—efforts must be pursued to finally
obtain what is needed. Otherwise, though, the face At the GRADUATE LEVEL, our faculty members
of the SdBI is constantly changing. Our full-time continue to welcome graduate students in the
faculty have managed our Personnel Committee INDI programs (M.A. and Ph.D.) and the Ph.D. in
and Tenure Committee, and we have had much Humanities. In addition, the Graduate Committee
help from new and returning Part-Time Professors, has pursued its work on a proposal for a Master’s
Fellows and Research Associates to insure the degree in Critical Studies of Activism that would
continuation of the steady work of our standing allow students to further feminist scholarship in two
committees (Coordinating, Curriculum, Graduate, areas: (a) bodies, genders and sexuality; and (b)
Ethics, Forum, Lillian Robinson Scholars Program). race, nationalisms, and states. Discussions on this
proposal will continue in the Fall of 2015.
A number of major events stand out in the last two
years: our victory at the Supreme Court of Canada In the last two years, at the POSTDOCTORAL
(thanks to Viviane Namaste who presented a brief LEVEL, the Institute has welcomed a good number
on our behalf); our accepted brief on (and feminist of Postdoctoral Fellows. Dr. Naïma Hamrouni has
response to) Québec’s Charter of Values; our follow- worked under the supervision of Dr. Chantal Maillé
up to the Idle No More commitment with two events on ethical limits to the commodification of women’s
organized in collaboration with Indigenous women educational, reproductive, care and domestic
(the Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit Harm services. Drs. Isabelle Perreault (institutionalization
Reduction Coalition event and the event entitled “25 of sexology at UQAM), Gabriel Girard, (network of
ans après Polytechnique: contrer l’effacement, créer actors and medicalization of risks among gays living
sa place”); our partnership with Groupe Intervention with HIV), and Elhadji Mbaye (intersectoral political
Vidéo (GIV); the wonderful Lillian Robinson action, immigration policy, and anti-AIDS politics
Scholars’ lectures; the international conference on in France and Canada) have worked under the
“Imagining the Future of LGBTQ Human Rights”; supervision of Dr. Viviane Namaste.
2 Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 Report
In terms of RESEARCH, all full-time professors have made us very proud at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.
continued to be very active. A fuller account of their We are extremely thankful that so many have chosen
research outputs can be found later in the Report, but it is to devote their time and expertise to make the Institute
worth highlighting here that their most recent publications a vibrant place and thus contributed to sustaining the
and presentations constitute only a fraction of their work excellent reputation of the SdBI in the community.
as researchers and that their writing efforts of the last
two years should soon be rewarded by the fresh smell Our Forum Committee has been very active and,
of their publications! Full-time professors continued their for the last two years, has managed to sponsor and/
stellar record of obtaining important research grants with or organize seminars, colloquia, conferences, book
research councils and Dr. Chantal Maillé made us proud, launches, receptions, and a good number of other
getting her promotion to Full Professor. As you can also feminist activities; some of the highlights are presented
see in the present document, our Fellows, Part-Time later in this report. These activities are crucial to connect
Professors, Research Associates, and Postdoctoral us with our academic community but also with the larger
Fellows greatly contributed to the advancement of feminist Montreal community of feminists, which has so much to
knowledge and praxis via their multiple successes as offer in terms of thought, creation and action.
award and grant recipients, and as authors of important
In brief, the flourishing state of the SdBI is underscored
and relevant publications and presentations.
by the collective accomplishments of the various SdBI
With regards to COMMUNITY OUTREACH, all full-time actors between 2013 and 2015 and, of course, only a tiny
professors were involved in the organization of significant fraction of those can appear in the present report. I would
conferences and events, and all devoted their time to like to take the opportunity to thank all members of the
community service and feminist praxis. Perhaps two SdBI for such amazing work and to congratulate students
Research Associates deserve particular attention here: and staff for two years of outstanding achievements. I
warmly welcome the members who have recently joined
Kathleen O’Grady, writer and political and media us and wish those who are leaving us much success and
strategist has seen her writings on health, happiness in the future.
sexuality, and women’s and cultural issues appear
in a variety of magazines and newspapers in I have had the privilege to be Principal for 6 years and
North America, including: The Chicago Tribune, am now on my way to a sabbatical. I will return to the
The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Institute in June 2016 as a regular professor and will then
Women’s Review of Books, BUST magazine and have some time to consider my next steps. Wherever I
many others. For this, she received the prize of end up, I will cherish many memories of the SdBI and
Opinion Writer of the Week Award in the Spring all of its people. The SdBI is really special and I know
of 2015 and she also received the inaugural that the next Principal will take it to the next level as the
Concordia University Opinion Writer of the Year momentum is there for the SdBI to grow and prosper.
Award in June 2015. In that regard, I reserve my special thanks to André
Roy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Benoit-
Dr. Tracy Zhang, also a Research Associate Antoine Bacon, Provost, and Alan Shepard, President of
and a post-doctoral fellow in the Department Concordia, for all their words of encouragement, and for
of Geography, Planning and Environment was their support and belief in our SdBI.
funded by the Quebec Research Funds for
Society and Culture (FRSCQ) to examine the
international recruitment practices of the North
American entertainment industries, using the
Cirque du Soleil as a case. Tracy published a
piece from that research (“Bending the body
for China: the uses of acrobatics in Sino-US
diplomacy during the Cold War,” International
Journal of Cultural Policy) and it brought her
the FRSCQ’s “young researcher” award for May
2015.
Space prevents me from presenting the extraordinary
Dr. Geneviève Rail
achievements of other SdBI members, but suffice to say
that their contributions have been noticed and many have
Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 Report 3
Lillian Robinson
who we are Scholars
Dr. Sarah Carmona
Dr. Angela Cameron
Dr. Dana Olwan
Dr. Maya Eichler
Research Associates
Farida Abla
Dr. Christiana Abraham
Full-Time Faculty Fellows Dr. Sima Aprahamian
Dr. Rachel Berger Dr. Michiko Aramaki
Dr. Geneviève Rail
Dr. Rosemary-Claire Collard Dr. Amélie Barras
Dr. Viviane Namaste
Dr. Sandi Curtis Dr. Dominique Bourque
Dr. Chantal Maillé
Linda Kay Syeda Nayah Bukhari
Dr. Gada Mahrouse
Dr. Kimberley Manning Dr. Sonia Cancian
Dr. Lorna Roth Dr. Jean Chapman
Dr. Rosemarie Schade Dr. Dolores Chew
Part-Time Faculty Dr. Karin Doerr
Tatiana Fraser
Dr. Alexander Antonopoulos Postdoctoral Fellows Dr. Dorothy Geller
Dr. Michiko Aramaki Tamara Amoroso Gonçalves
Jenn Clamen Dr. Naïma Hamrouni Dr. Dana Hearne
Yasmeen Daher Dr. Isabelle Perreault Dr. Abby Lippman
Dr. Sheena Gourlay Dr. Elhadji Mbaye Dr. Pauline McKenzie Aucoin
Karen Herland Dr. Gabriel Girard Dr. Elizabeth J. Meyer
Dr. Kahente Horn-Miller Luisa Molino
Dr. Edward Ou Jin Lee Dr. Denise Nadeau
Debbie Lunny Honorary Fellows Dr. Rumana Nahid-Subhan
Alex McClelland Kathleen O’Grady
Dr. Elma Moses Arpi Hamalian Dr. Sheenagh Pietrobruno
Dr. Joanne Muzak Dr. Elizabeth Henrik Dr. Esmeralda Thornhill
Gregory Rodríguez-Arbolay, Jr. Dr. Susan Hoecker-Drysdale Dr. Haïfa Tlili
Dr. Candis Steenbergen Maïr Verthuy Dr. Noortje van Amsterdam
Dr. Tracy Ying Zhang Katherine Waters Dr. Tracy Ying Zhang
4 Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 Report
Curriculum Committee Coordinating Committee
Dr. Christiana Abraham (2014-2015) Farida Abla (2014-2015)
Dr. Michiko Aramaki (2013-2014) Dr. Michiko Aramaki (2013-2015)
Dr. Alexander Antonopoulos (2014-2015) Irmak Bahar (2013-2014)
Madde Halupka (2013-2014) Belinda Bowes (2013-2015)
Beth Lee (Fall, 2014-2015) Syeda Bukhari (2014-2015)
Dr. Gada Mahrouse (2013-2015) Dr. Abby Lippman (2013-2015)
Dr. Chantal Maillé (2013-2015) Dr. Gada Mahrouse (2013-2015)
Natasha Melbrew (Winter, 2014-2015) Dr. Chantal Maillé (2013-2015)
Dr. Viviane Namaste (2013-2015) Dr. Viviane Namaste (2013-2015)
Dr. Geneviève Rail (2013-2015) Lindsay Nixon (2014-2015)
Dr. Rosemarie Schade (2013-2014) Dr. Geneviève Rail (2013-2015)
Graduate Program Committee Ethics Committee
Dr. Gada Mahrouse (2013-2015) Farida Abla (2013-2014)
Dr. Kimberley Manning (2013-2015) Dr. Michiko Aramaki (2014-2015)
Kerry McElroy (2013-2014) Jenn Clamen (2013-2015)
Dr. Viviane Namaste (2013-2015) Dr. Abby Lippman (2013- 2015)
Dr. Geneviève Rail (2013-2015) Dr. Gada Mahrouse (2013-2015)
Dr. Viviane Namaste (2013-2015)
Dr. Tracy Zhang (2013-2015)
Forum Committee
Farida Abla (2013-2015)
Dr. Jean Chapman (2013-2014) Department Personnel Committee
Mark Gaspar (2013-2014)
Dr. Gada Mahrouse (2013-2014)
Karen Herland (2013-2015)
Dr. Chantal Maillé (2013-2015)
Michelle Lacombe (2013-2015)
Dr. Viviane Namaste (2013-2015)
Dr. Gada Mahrouse (2013-2014)
Dr. Geneviève Rail (2013-2015)
Natasha Melbrew (2014-2015)
Emma Pietrangelo (2013-2014)
Dr. Geneviève Rail (2013-2015)
Part-Time Hiring Committee
Lillian Robinson Scholars Dr. Alexander Antonopoulos (2013-2014)
Dr. Michiko Aramaki (2013-2015)
Program Committee Karen Herland (2014-2015)
Dr. Sonia Cancian (2013-2014) Dr. Gada Mahrouse (2015)
Dr. Dolores Chew (2013-2015) Dr. Chantal Maillé (2013-2015)
Dr. Sima Aprahamian (2013-2015) Dr. Viviane Namaste (2013-2015)
Kathleen O’Grady (2013-2015) Dr. Geneviève Rail (2013-2015)
Dr. Geneviève Rail (2013-2015)
Dr. Greg Robinson (2013-2015)
committees
Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 Report 5
undergraduate
highlights
word
from the
program secretary
We have many graduating students this coming June. Congratulations and well done to
all of them! May what you have learned here help you in your travels throughout life.
Welcome to the new students coming in for September, a few of which I have already had
the opportunity to meet. It is always exciting to see the next generation of women set on
changing the world. Good luck to you all.
Administratively, it has been a trying year. The new systems the university has implemented
can be frustrating at times, but they are getting easier as time goes on. I think the upcoming
year will bring about more changes and, hopefully, I will be up to meeting the challenges.
Please feel free to drop in just to talk, to complain, to share. My door is always open,
unless I have gone home. :)
- Linda Bowes
6 Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 Report
our student
enrollment
2013-2014
We offered seven sections of 200-level courses with a total enrolment of 329 students. We also
offered twelve 300-level courses with a total enrolment of 311 students, in addition to five 400-level
sections with a total enrolment of 114 students.
We had a total of 755 students registered in our 23 courses.
Students registered in
Women’s Studies Programs
between 2013-2014:
Specialization 5
Major 165
Minor 52
Certificate 14
Total: 236
2014-2015
We offered eight sections of 200-level courses with a total enrolment of 377 students. We also
offered ten 300-level courses with a total enrolment of 268 students, in addition to seven 400-level
sections with a total enrolment of 134 students.
We had a total of 779 students registered in our 23 courses last year.
Students registered in
Women’s Studies Programs
between 2014-2015:
Specialization 3
Major 189
Minor 61
Certificate 18
Total: 271
Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 Report 7
special subject
courses
2013-2014
Feminisms, Girls and Girlhood
Indigenous Women: Feminist Perspectives
Gender, Space & The City
Trauma & Feminist Media
Queer Migrations
Introduction to Trans Studies
Feminisms & Activisms
Women in Conflict with the Law
Neoliberalism: Feminist Perspectives
2014-2015
Women & Addiction: Feminist Perspectives
Women & Homelessness
Anti-Racist Feminist Media
Transnational Feminisms
Women, Feminism & Humour
Aboriginal Women
Fat Studies & Feminism
8 Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 Report
undergraduate student
awards
2013-2014
Amanda Arella received the Thérèse Casgrain Medal
Michaela Holt was awarded the Maïr Verthuy Scholarship
Molly Jean Seck-Langill was awarded the Lillian S. Robinson Scholarship
Cynthia Sabourin was awarded the Provost Entrance Scholarship
Amanda Arella was awarded the Provost In-Course Scholarship
Lindsay Nixon was awarded the Pia Wilkinson Memorial Scholarship
Alexandra Turski was awarded the Simone de Beauvoir Institute Scholarship
2014-2015
Elodie Bruton-Cyr received the Thérèse Casgrain Medal
Valerie Simon was awarded the Maïr Verthuy Scholarship
Jenna Rose was awarded the Lillian S. Robinson Scholarship
Alisha Mascarenhas was awarded the Provost In-Course Scholarship
Eunice Malchuk-Rasmussen was awarded the Provost Entrance Scholarship
Sophie Thiebault was awarded the Pia Wilkinson Memorial Scholarship
Charline Fallu was awarded the Simone de Beauvoir Institute Scholarship
List of graduates over the last two years
Elodie Bruton-Cyr * Irene Dimopoulos * Candice Figueira * Micheala Holt
Emilie Jacob * Melissa Johnson * Molly Jeanne Seck Langill
Jennie MacPhee-Woodburn * Sophy Martin * Nadia Ragbir * Traci Nicole Silva
Alexandra Elizabeth Turski * Pamela Jaclyn Vrabel * Sayam Walia * Miriam Sherwin
Charline Fallu * Manpreet Sanghera * Judith Grant * Daniela Jiménez Tirado
Emma Pietrangelo * Amanda Arella * Grace Skahan * Kelly Longman
Jennifer Barbato * Julie Proulx * Rachelle Dénommé
Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 Report 9new things
at the
institute
Over the last two years, the SdBI has benefited from a digital upgrade. To stay
better connected with its community of students, scholars and feminist researchers,
the SdBI created a Facebook page. In addition to being a space to promote our
activities and news to our local community, this tool has provided a bridge with
more distant feminists interested in our professional opportunities and community
activities. More recently, and as part of a larger Concordia project to standardize
departmental websites, the SdBI website was redesigned. In addition to having a
more user-friendly interface, the new site also allows for more autonomy in regards
to updates and therefore promises to be a more dynamic window into the SdBI!
Digital Upgrade
Above: The SdBI’s new website home page
Left: The SdBI Facebook page
10 Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 ReportSimone’s Library
and
Research Corner
The Simone de Beauvoir Reading Room continues to
play an integral role in the quality of student life. The
Reading Room is now staffed by three documentalists:
Laura Copeland, Kerry McElroy, and this year we
welcomed Madde Halupa to the team. The Reading
Room is open on Tuesday through Thursday from
1pm to 7pm. Students use the reading room as a finding resources. The documentalists are continually
meeting place, to work on projects with colleagues, researching new titles to add to the collection in
enjoy silent study time, browse and borrow our order to provide current and relevant material for our
books, or use one of four work stations, equipped students.
with computers. Students can search our online
data-base of books from the comfort of their home, or - Laura Copeland
may ask one of the documentalists for assistance in SdBI Documentalist
Some of the excellent publications recently
purchased for Simone’s Library! These new
aquisitions are chosen in response to requests
from our constituents, as well as to SdBI course
content and academic events.
To peruse the full collection online:
www.concordia.ca/artsci/sdbi/research/
simone-library.html
Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 Report 11institute
events
word
from the
event coordinator
Over the past two years, the SdBI has undoubtedly reaffirmed its commitment towards
supporting a range of academic, cultural and community-based feminist activities. Since
May of 2013, we have supported over 30 events including, conferences, workshops,
lectures, screenings and publication launches. Most of these have been organized in
partnership with allied departments and working groups at Concordia, as well as with
other Montreal-based universities and local feminist organizations. This collaborative
working model is an excellent way for us to amplify the impacts of our activities, and to
connect with new and diverse communities.
More specifically, the programming over the past two years was built around two larger-
size projects that highlighted the important work of indigenous feminists (Waniskâtân,
organized with the Indiginous Women and Two-Spirit Harm Reduction Coalition), as
well as emerging feminist scholars and activists (25 ans après Polytechnique : Contrer
l’effacement, créer sa place, organized with the FFQ and Université de Montréal). The
programming was also peppered with a large number of book launches, further attesting
to the high volume of vibrant research being accomplished by our constituents and friends.
Lastly, in 2015, the SdBI partnered with Groupe Intervention Video (G.I.V.) to update the
Concordia Library’s media collection to better reflect current feminisms with the purchase
of six new video works. When viewed as a whole, our dynamic programming celebrated the
advancement of intersectional feminisms and effectively reflected the active community
of scholars, activists, cultural practitioners and students working at the SdBI!
In conclusion, I would like to highlight the diligent work done by the members of the
Forum Committee. The quality of our programming is a direct result of their generosity,
vision and critical thinking. I would also like to thank faculty, staff and students for their
valuable support in organizing our events.
- Michelle Lacombe
12 Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 ReportNumber of events organized or co-
31 “Resonant Resistance:
“A Roundtable Community sponsored by the Simone de Beauvoir Making Sound that Matters,”
Dialogue on Bill 60:
Equality and Feminist Perspectives.”
Institute’s Forum Committee between a workshop with Moe Clark
2013 and 2015 ! presented as part of
Panelists (left to right):
Waniskâtân Nîtisânitik: Indigenous
Dr. Sirma Bilge, Dr. Yasmin Jiwani,
Feminist and Two-Spirit
Cynthia Kelly and Me Pearl Eliadis
Resistance on Turtle Island
event co-sponsors
Women’s Studies Students Association (WSSA) * Centre for Gender Advocacy * HIV/AIDS
Lecture Series * Cinema Politica * Center for Research-Action on Race Relations * UQAM/
IREF * Fédération des Femmes du Québec * Montreal Israeli Apartheid Week * Centre for
Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture * HIV/AIDS Concordia * Edgy Women/ Studio 303
* Massimadi Film Festival * Groupe Intervention Vidéo * Iranian Women’s Association * CERIAS
* Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling * Biennial Conference of American Council for
Québec Studies * Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit Harm Reduction Coalition * Qouleur *
Trudeau Foundation * The Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee of Canada * Undergraduate
Journal of Interdisciplinary studies in Sexualities * Québec on the Move
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Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 Report 13Lillian
Robinson
Scholars
A feminist scholar whose career spanned over 35 years, Dr. Lillian Robinson was Principal of
the Simone de Beauvoir Institute from 2000 to 2006. She was widely recognized as one of the
leading feminist theorists of the twentieth century, and her essays and books have inspired
feminist scholarship around the world. Thanks to a generous donation from the Renée B.
Fisher Foundation and the work and vision of the Foundation Board Member Dr. Shelly
Fisher Fishkin from Stanford University, the Simone de Beauvoir Institute has created a
visiting scholars program as a living memorial to Lillian Robinson.
The Lillian Robinson Scholar Program is designed to attract distinguished visiting scholars
working on a range of feminist research topics to the Simone de Beauvoir Institute. The
program supports stays of varying lengths for scholars with a PhD. The program provides a
small stipend of $1000. Four Lillian Robinson Scholars visited our Institute in the last two years.
14 Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 Report2013-2014
Dr. Dana Olwan
Dr. Maya Eichler
“During my time as Lillian Robinson Scholar I worked
on my edited volume Gender and Private Security in
Global Politics which was recently published by Oxford
University Press. Since July 2014, I have taken up the
position of Canada Research Chair in Social Innovation
and Community Engagement and Assistant Professor in
Political and Canadian Studies and Women’s Studies at
Mount Saint Vincent University (Halifax).”
- Maya Eichler
2014-2015
Dr. Sarah Carmona
Dr. Angela Cameron
“My time at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute was
productive and interesting. I enjoyed meeting the
professors and students who work at the Institute, and
delivering a talk to an interested and engaged audience. I
also used my time there to write intensively, a quiet haven
from family and professional responsibilities in Ottawa.
The location in Montreal also allowed me to network
with scholars doing similar research at McGill University,
Université du Québec à Montréal, and Université de
Montréal. I delivered a talk and a guest lecture at McGill
University.”
- Angela Cameron
Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 Report 15Public
Positions
From time to time, the SdBI gets directly involved in debates
and takes a public position. This practices has allowed us to
distinguish ourselves as respected experts in number of feminist
fields and, as such, in the past two years, we have been solicited
to provide a feminist perspective on important debates. In 2013,
the SdBI was granted Intervener status the Supreme Court of
Canada in a case related to prostitution and, in 2013, the SdBI
deposited a feminist response to Bill 60, the Québec “Charter of
Values.”
Please find on our next page summaries of these public responses
and do not hesitate to contact us to show your support!
16 Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 ReportIn 2013, the Simone de Beauvoir Institute was granted Intervenor status at the Supreme
Court of Canada in a case related to prostitution (Bedford et al.). On June 13, 2013, the
Court heard the SdBI’s case, which was built on three main arguments that supported our
position that laws should not place women, including sex workers, at increased risk of
violence.
We are pleased to report that the Supreme Court unanimously decided to strike down
Canada’s prostitution laws, because they did not respect Charter rights, notably the right
to the security of the person. The SdBI sees this decision to strike down the law, which
increased violence against women, as an important feminist victory.
An abstract of the fanctum, as well as the full French version, can be found on our web site:
SdBI Supreme Court Case On Prostitution
In the fall of 2013, the then governing party of Québec introduced Bill 60, a divisive bill
more commonly referred to as Québec’s “Charter of Values.” In December of the same
year, the Simone de Beavoir Institute deposited a feminist response to the proposed Bill.
The breif opposes Bill 60 and draws attention to what was perceived by our community of
educators, researchers, and students as an exclusionary piece of policy. The important
brief also highlights the false assumptions supported by the proposed bill and the negative
impact it was likely to have on the lives of women living in Quebec.
The full brief can be found on our web site:
SdBI’s Brief on Bill 60
Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 Report 17full-time faculty
highlights
Dr. Geneviève Rail
Dr. Viviane Namaste
Dr. Chantal Maillé
Dr. Gada Mahrouse
18 Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 ReportDr. Geneviève Rail
Research Grants
Mitchell, C., Pool, N., Kerwin Jones, E., Andersson, N., et al., G. Rail (collaborator) (2014-2020, SSHRC,
Partnership Grants: International Partnerships for Sustainable Societies, $1.2M). Networks for
change and well-being: Girl-led ‘from the ground up’ policy-making: Addressing sexual violence.
Décarie, F., et al., with Rail, G. (2014-2020, FRSCQ, $1.2M). Réseau québécois en études féministes
(Regroupement stratégique).
Rail, G. (2014-2020, Concordia University, Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies,
$30,000). RéQEF Institutional Funds (Help for Regroupement stratégique).
McPhail, D., Rail, G., Gingras, J., & Jette, S.L. (2014-2017, CIHR, $230,130). Reproducing Stigma: Obesity
and Women’s Experiences of Reproductive Care.
Mitchell, C., Pool, N., Kerwin Jones, E., Andersson, N., et al., G. Rail (Co-Applicant) (2013-2014, SSHRC,
Partnership Grants: International Partnerships for Sustainable Societies, $30,000). Networks for
change and well-being: Girl-led ‘from the ground up’ policy-making: Addressing sexual violence.
Rail, G. (2014-2015, Concordia University, $5000). Research Support for Academic Heads.
Rail, G. (2014-2015, Concordia University, VPRGS, $5000). Aid to Research Related Events, Exhibition,
Publication and Dissemination Activities Program: “Imagining the Future of Global LGBTQ Human
Rights” International Conference.
G. Rail, Fusco, C., Burns, K., Russel, K., Bryson, M., Macdonald, M., Moola, F., Norman, M.E., Petherick, L.,
& Polzer, J. (2012-2015, CIHR, $273,359). HPV vaccination discourses, spaces and biopedagogies:
Affects and effects on youth’s bodies and subjectivities.
Bryson, M, Gahagan, J., Hart, S., Rail, G., Ristock, J. et al. (2012-2015, CIHR, $356,377). Cancer’s margins
and the choreography of knowledge: Toward a queer biopolitics and the mobilization of public health
knowledge.
Bryson, M, Gahagan, J., Hart, S., Rail, G., et al. (2012-2013, CIHR, $100,000). Cancer’s margins and
the choreography of knowledge: Genders, sexualities and the queer biopolitics of access to health
knowledge mobilization (Priority Announcement Grant).
Rail, G. (2012-2013, Concordia University, $10,000). Research Support for Academic Heads.
Rail, G. (2012-2013, Concordia University, VPRGS, $5000). Aid to Research Related Events, Exhibition,
Publication and Dissemination Activities Program: Simone de Beauvoir Institute 35th anniversary
conference “Rethinking race and sexuality: Feminist conversations, contestations and coalitions.”
Vissandjée, B., Glass, J., Lupien, S., Moretti, M., & Rail, G. (2012-2013, CIHR, $20,940). Gender Sensitive
Adolescent Girls’ Health: Challenges and Actions (Meetings, Planning).
Décarie, F., et al., with Rail, G. (2011-2014, FQRST, $258,691). Réseau québécois en études féministes
(Regroupement stratégique).
Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 Report 19Publications
Adams, M.L., Davidson, J., Helstein, M., Jamieson, K., Kim, KY, King, S., McDonald, M.G., & Rail, G. (2015).
Feminist cultural studies: Uncertainties and possibilities. Sociology of Sport Journal, 32(4).
Norman, M.E., Rail, G., & Jette, S. (2014). Moving subjects, feeling bodies: Emotion and subjectification in “Village
on a Diet.” Fat Studies Journal, 3(1), 17-31.
Rail, G. (2014). Femmes, « obésité » et confessions de la chair : regard critique sur la Clinique de l’obésité. Labrys,
études féministes/ estudos feministas, 25 (janvier-juin 2014).
Jette, S., & Rail, G. (2013). Resisting, reproducing, resigned? Pregnant women’s discursive constructions and
experiences of ‘health’ and weight gain. Nursing Inquiry. December 2013 ePub prior to paper publishing.
Abou-Rizk, Z., & Rail, G. (2013). “Judging a Body by Its Cover”: Young Lebanese-Canadian Women’s Discursive
Constructions of the “Healthy” Body and “Health” Practices. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 14(6),
1-17.
Pouliot, A., & Rail, G. (2013). « Voir » la santé autrement : Les constructions discursives de la santé de jeunes
femmes vivant en situation de handicap visuel. Recherches féministes, 26(1), 131-149.
Jette, S., & Rail, G. (2013). Ills from the womb? A critical examination of Evidence-Based Medicine and pregnancy
weight gain advice. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine,
17(4), 407-421.
Abou-Rizk, Z., & Rail, G. (2013). Review of the book Fat Studies in the UK edited by Corinna Tomrley and Ann
Kaloski Naylor (Raw Nerve Books, 2009). Fat Studies Journal, 2(1), 92-96.
Presentations
Rail, G., Molino, L., & Fusco, C. (2015, February). HPV Vaccines and Discourses: Impact on Canadian Girls.
International Conference on “Public Health Infrastructure in Transition: Challenges and a way Forward,” New
Delhi, India.
Rail, G., & Molino, L. (2015, February). No longer objects: Women, health and the politicization of archives in
the digital age. International Conference on “Shifting Contours, Widening Concerns: Women’s History,
Historiography and the Politics of Historical Representation,” Mumbai, India.
Rail, G., Bryson, M., Hart, T., Gahagan, J., Ristock, J., & Molino, L. (2015, February). Cancer’s Margins: Sexual
Minorities, Cancer Care, Knowledge and Subjectivities. International Conference on “Public Health
Infrastructure in Transition: Challenges and a way Forward,” New Delhi, India.
Rail, G., Molino, L., & Fusco, C. (2015, February). HPV Vaccines: Protecting Canadian Girls and Public Health?
Fourteenth World Congress on Public Health, Kolkata, India.
Rail, G. (2014, November). Les enjeux clés liés aux féminismes au Québec, au Canada et à L’échelle internationale.
Paper presented at the Institute for Canadian Studies of McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Rail, G. (2014, November). Gendered bodies, physical activity and discrimination. Teleconference
participation,“Cuerpos, deporte y discriminación” organized in Buenos Aires in collaboration with the Canadian
Embassy in Argentina (Montreal office).
Rail, G., Molino, L., & Fusco, C. (2014, August). Guarding girls? HPV vaccine discourses’ impact on bodies and
subjectivities. Accepted panel on “Anticipation, anxiety and HPV vaccine politics. Global tensions and local
enactments,” Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Rail, G. (2014, May). Critique féministe des discours dominants en santé à trois âges de la vie. Invited presentation
at the « Université Féministe d’été », Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
Rail, G., Bryson, M., Hart, T., Gahagan, J., Ristock, J., & Molino, L. (2014, April). Queering qualitative cancer
research: Cancer’s Margins, knowledge and subjectivities. Presentation at the “Qualitative Cancer Research”
conference, Berlin School of Public Health, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
20 Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 ReportPresentations
Molino, L., Rail, G., & Fusco, C. (2014, April). HPV vaccination discourses: Impact on Canadian girls’ bodies and
subjectivities. Presentation at the “Qualitative Cancer Research” conference, Berlin School of Public Health,
Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
Rail, G. (2014, April). Women, obesity discourses, biomanagement and biopedagogy. Invited presentation at the
symposia “Managing social issues.” Department of Governance and Organization Studies, Utrecht University,
Utrecht, Netherlands.
Rail, G. (2014, March). Santé des femmes et biopouvoir : Une critique du mouvement sur les données probantes.
Presentation made in graduate seminar organied at the Faculty of Kinesiology, Université de Montréal, Montréal,
Canada.
Rail, G. (2013, November). Panel presentation: “Feminist cultural studies: Uncertainties and possibilities.” Annual
Conference of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Quebec City, Canada.
Rail, G., Moola, F., Molino, L., Jette, S., Norman, M.E., & Tlili, H. (2013, November). The weight of words: Health
professionals, obesity discourse and the sport environment. Annual Conference of the North American Society
for the Sociology of Sport, Quebec City, Canada.
Rail, G. (2013, October). Femmes, obésité et santé: regard critique sur les discours dominants. Presentation at the
l’Institut de recherches et d’études féministes, UQAM, Montréal, Canada.
Boschman, L., Bryson, M., Gahagan, J., Ristock, J., Hart, T., & Rail, G. (2013, October). Methodological considerations
in tracing cancer’s margins: Genders, sexualities and the queer biopolitics of access to health knowledge
mobilization. Qualitative Health Conference, Halifax, Canada.
Rail, G. (2013, May). Dones, obesitat I salut : una visió crítica dels discursos dominants. Invited presentation (in English
with simultaneous translation in Catalan), Equality Unit, University of Vic. Vic, Catalogna, Spain.
Media Representation
Rail, G. (2015, March). Interview by Émilie Corriveau for the article: Vaccination contre le VPH: Les jeunes Canadiennes
et leurs parents sont peu informés. Le Devoir, 11 avril, p. H4. http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/sante/436564/
vaccination-contre-le-vph-les-jeunes-canadiennes-et-leurs-parents-sont-peu-informes
Rail, G. (2014, November). Quoted by A. Sachet in the article « Plus qu’un programme, un mouvement », Quartier libre,
22(7), p. 5.
Rail, G. (2014, October). Comment se porte le mouvement mondial des LGBTQ? Invitée de Anne-Marie Yvon à une
émission web de Radio-Canada International. (Entrevue de 18 minutes). http://www.rcinet.ca/fr/2014/10/08/
comment-se-porte-le-mouvement-mondial-des-lgbtq/).
Rail, G. (2014, January). L’image corporelle et les soins de santé. Invitée de Maxime Bertrand à une émission télévisée
de Radio-Canada International. (Entrevue enregistrée à l’ISdB de Université Concordia).
Rail, G. (2013, November). Le mouvement féministe dans l’Ouest. Invitée de Doris Labrie à l’émission “Pour faire un
monde” de Radio-Canada, Régina, Saskatchewan. (Entrevue téléphonique de 13 minutes).(http://www.radio-
canada.ca/emissions/pour_faire_un_monde/20132014/chronique.asp?idChronique=320695)
Rail, G. (2013, November). L’état du féminisme au Canada. Invitée de Denis Duchesne à l’émission “Le réveil” de
Radio-Canada, Charlottetown, Île-du-Prince-Édouard. (Entrevue téléphonique de 7 minutes). (http://www.radio-
canada.ca/emissions/le_reveil_ile-du-prince-edouard/2013-2014/archives.asp?date=2013-11-18)
Rail, G. (2013, November). Les États généraux du féminisme au Québec. Invitée de Stéphane Côté aux nouvelles de
Radio-Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia. (Entrevue téléphonique de 6 minutes).
Rail, G. (2013, November). Les États généraux du féminisme au Québec. Invitée de Doris Larouche à l’émission “Café
Boulot Dodo” de Radio-Canada, Saguenay, Québec. (Entrevue téléphonique de 6 minutes).
Rail, G. (2013, November). Les États généraux du féminisme au Québec. Invitée de Arnaud Lacroix aux nouvelles de
Radio-Canada, Edmonton, Alberta. (Entrevue téléphonique de 6 minutes).
Rail, G. (2013, November). Les États généraux du féminisme au Québec. Invitée de Daniel Mathieu à l’émission “Le
monde selon Mathieu” de Radio-Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. (Entrevue téléphonique de 6 minutes).
Rail, G. (2013, November). Les États généraux du féminisme au Québec. Invitée de Mickael Bergeron aux nouvelles de
Radio-Canada, Sept-Iles, Québec. (Entrevue téléphonique de 6 minutes).
Rail, G. (2013, November). Les États généraux du féminisme au Québec. Invitée de Aude Hallé aux nouvelles de Radio-
Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Entrevue téléphonique de 6 minutes).
Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 Report 21Dr. Viviane Namaste
Awards
(Spring, 2015). Nomination, Prix Marie-Andrée Bertrand pour l’innovation sociale. Prix du Québec.
(April, 2014). Nomination, Dean’s Teaching Award. Concordia University Faculty of Arts and Science.
(October, 2013). Prix Honoris, Conseil Québécois des Gais et des Lesbiennes.
(June, 2013), Concordia University Newsmaker of the Week.
Research Grants
Namaste, V. (2013-2016, CIHR, Institute of Infection and Immunity; $156 922). L’histoire du VIH/sida dans la
communauté haïtienne à Montréal, années 1980.
Namaste, V. & Gagnon, M. (2014, Ottawa University, Universities Without Walls/Ontario HIV Treatment
Network, $12,175).
Namaste, V. (2014, CRIPS-Île de France, €1,500). Subvention, exposition sur l’histoire du VIH/sida à Paris.
Namaste, V. (2013-2018, Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies, Concordia University,
$125 000). Concordia University Research Chair in HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health.
Publications
Namaste, V. (2014). Afterword. In Irving, D. & Raj, R. (ed.), The Trans Activism Anthology (pp. 287-290).
Toronto: Women’s Press.
Namaste, V. & Butler-Burke, N. (2014). What is missing in our community is self-love. An interview with Marie-
Marcelle Godbout. In Irving, D. & Raj, R. (ed.), The Trans Activism Anthology (pp.109-114). Toronto:
Women’s Press.
Namaste, V. (2014). We paved the way. An interview with Michelle De Ville, Montréal’s first door bitch. In
Irving, D. & Raj, R. (ed.), The Trans Activism Anthology (pp. 19-25). Toronto: Women’s Press.
22 Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 ReportPresentations
Namaste, V. (2015, March). Reflections on the roots of austerity. Austerity panel, organized by Graduate
Students’ Association, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.
Namaste, V. (2015, January). On Women, Vice and Vagrancy in Canada. The Walrus Talks Vice,
Calgary, Canada. http://thewalrus.ca/tv-on-women-vice-and-vagrancy-in-canada/.
Namaste, V. (2014, September). Epidemiology and its critics. Presentation dans un cours sur le VIH/
sida, Université Concordia, Montréal, Canada.
Namaste, V. (2014, March). Oral History, Archives, and the Invisible Labour of Trans Women in Montréal.
Moving Trans* History Forward, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.
Namaste, V. (2014, March). Feminist Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Work. Invited talk for course
on sexuality (WS 219, Sex, Power, Pleasure), University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.
Namaste, V. (2013, October). Décriminalisation de la prostitution : Enjeux juridiques et féministes.
Présentation dans un cours, École des affaires publiques et communautaires, Université
Concordia, Montréal, Canada.
Namaste, V. (2013, September). Fundamental concepts and critiques of epidemiology. Présentation
dans un cours sur le VIH/sida, Université Concordia, Montréal, Canada.
Namaste, V. (2013, July). Montréal By Night : Critical Thoughts on Radical Health Research. From
the Margins: Radical Thoughts for Health Practices and Research, International Conference, In
Sickness and In Health (ISIH), Montréal, Canada.
Namaste, V. (2013, July). Knowing Practices of History? The History of HIV in Parisian Trans’
Communities. Association of Social Sciences and Humanities on HIV/AIDS, Paris, France.
Namaste, V. (2013, July). Another Conference? Institutional Strategies to Promote Reflection on
Failure. Association of Social Sciences and Humanities on HIV/AIDS, Paris, France.
Media Representation
Namaste, V. (2015, March). Tous les jours contre le sexisme. Le Devoir, March 7 & 8, p. A1- A10.
Namaste, V. (2015, May). Moduler les réformes du gouvernement Couillard pour les femmes. Champs
Libres, May 14. http://www.champslibres.info/?p=4320
Namaste, V. (2015). Fostering a dialogue on austerity. The Concordian, February 17. http://
theconcordian.com/2015/02/fostering-a-dialogue-on-austerity/
Namaste, V. (2015, January). Sins in Seven Minutes. Fast Forward (Calgary), January 29. http://www.
ffwdweekly.com/life/urban-living/sins-in-seven-minutes/
Namaste, V. (2015, January). The Walrus Talks Bring Everything Vice to Calgary. Notable.ca, January
20. http://notable.ca/calgary/yp-life/The-Walrus-Talks-Bring-Everything-Vice-to-Calgary-/.
Namaste, V. (201, January). High Performance Rodeo Talks 2015: The Walrus Talks Vice. Beatroute,
January 7. http://beatroute.ca/2015/01/07/high-performance-rodeo-2015-the-walrus-talks-vice/
Namaste, V. (2014, June). Cinq arguments féministes contre la criminalisation des clients. Le Devoir,
June 9. http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/canada/410424/cinq-arguments-feministes-contre-la-
criminalisation-des-clients
Namaste, V. (2014, May). Montréal’s Red Light District. CTV News, May 13. http://montreal.ctvnews.
ca/video?playlistId=1.1819584
Namaste, V. (2014, March). Trans pioneers to lead University of Victoria symposium. Victoria Times
Columnist, 20 March. http://www.timescolonist.com/trans-pioneers-to-lead-university-of-victoria-
symposium-1.914878
Namaste, V. (2014, February). Remembering Xanthra Phillippa Mackay. Xtra!, February. http://dailyxtra.
com/canada/life/proud-lives/remembering-xanthra-phillippa-mackay
Namaste, V. (2014, January). Union pas toujours parfaite. Fugues, January 29 http://www.fugues.
com/238684-article-union-pas-toujours-parfaite.html
Namaste, V. (2014, January). Vers une légalisation de la prostitution ? Fugues, January 28.http://www.
fugues.com/238646-article-vers-une-legalisation-de-la-prostitution-.html
Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 Report 23Media Representation
Namaste, V. (2014, January). Simone de Beauvoir Institute Reacts to Supreme Court Decision on Canada’s
Prostitution Laws. The Link, January 7. http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/5234
Namaste, V. (2014, January). Supreme Court Strikes Down Sex Work Laws. McGill Daily, January 9. http://www.
mcgilldaily.com/2014/01/supreme-court-strikes-down-sex-work-laws/
Namaste, V. (2014, January). Prostitution : The Feminist Perspective. Concordia Now, January 6.
http://www.concordia.ca/news/stories/cunews/main/stories/2014/01/06/prostitution-thefeministperspective.html
Namaste, V. (2013, October). Onze activistes honorés. Fugues, October 24. http://www.fugues.com/216877-
article-onze-activistes-honores.html
Namaste, V. (2013, December). Des féministes crient victoire. Journal métro, December 20. http://www.
journaldemontreal.com/2013/12/20/des-feministes-crient-victoire
Namaste, V. (2013, December). Des féministes crient victoire. TVA nouvelles, December 20.
Namaste, V. (2013, December). Conférence de presse avec Stella, en direct sur les ondes de RDI, December 20.
Namaste, V. (2013, December). Prostitution : Stella crie victoire au nom de la sécurité. radio 98.5 FM, December
20. http://www.985fm.ca/national/nouvelles/prostitution-stella-crie-victoire-au-nom-de-la-s-289706.html
Namaste, V. (2013). The Duty of Philosophy : Simone de Beauvoir would have supported the decriminalization of
prostitution. http://swannet.org/node/2178
Namaste, V. (2013, November). Ce n’est pas un jeu, pas une tocade! On ne choisit pas entre Coop et Migros!.
Spectra, Bulletin de l’office fédéral de la santé publique Suisse, 101(November 2013), pp. 6-7.
Namaste, V. (2013, June). Le Devoir de philo – Simone de Beauvoir souhaiterait une décriminalisation de la
prostitution. Le Devoir, June 15. http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/le-devoir-de-philo/380869/simone-de-
beauvoir-souhaiterait-une-decriminalisation-de-la-prostitution
Namaste, V. (2013, June). Montreal prof seeks Supreme Court ruling on sex work. » Canada Standard June 13.
http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/215174178/scat/71df8d33cd2a30df
Namaste, V. (2013, June). L’Institut Simone de Beauvoir se prononcera sur la prostitution en Cour suprême. Journal
metro, June 9. http://journalmetro.com/actualites/montreal/325203/linstitut-simone-de-beauvoir-se-
prononcera-sur-la-prostitution-en-cour-supreme/
Namaste, V. (2013, June). Prostitution. CBC News, June 7. http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Canada/Montreal/
ID/2390180171/
Namaste, V. (2013, June). Prostitution – L’Institut Simone de Beauvoir entendu par la Cour Suprême. Le Devoir,
June 12. http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/380527/l-institut-simone-de-beauvoir-
entendu-par-la-cour-supreme
Namaste, V. (2013, June). Débat sur la décriminalisation de la prostitution. Journal Métro, June 11. http://
journalmetro.com/actualites/national/326296/decriminaliser-la-prostitution/
Namaste, V. (2013, June). Le plus vieux débat au monde. La Presse Plus, June 12. http://plus.lapresse.ca/
screens/409f-639c-51b7441d-97ae-4422ac1c606d|_0.html
Namaste, V. (2013, June). Procès : Décriminalisation de la prostitution à l’ordre du jour. La Presse, June
13. http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-affaires-criminelles/201306/12/01-4660359-proces-
decriminalisation-de-la-prostitution-a-lordre-du-jour.php
Namaste, V. (2013, June). Décriminaliser la prostitution : Au tour du Canada d’en débattre. TV5, June 13. http://
www.tv5.org/cms/chaine-francophone/Terriennes/Dossiers/p-25607-Decriminaliser-la-prostitution-au-
tour-du-Canada-d-en-debattre.htm
Namaste, V. (2013, June). Montréal prof seeks Supreme Court ruling on sex work. CBC Daybreak, June 13. http://
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-prof-seeks-supreme-court-ruling-on-sex-work-1.1317081
Namaste, V. (2013, June). Prostitution at the Supreme Court of Canada. CBC Montréal, Radio Noon, June 13.
http://www.cbc.ca/radionoonmontreal/
Namaste, V. (2013, June). Dance party démonstration held in solidarity with sex workers. McGill Daily, June 13.
http://www.mcgilldaily.com/2013/06/dance-party-demonstration-held-in-solidarity-with-sex-workers/
Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2009-2011 Report 24Dr. Chantal Maillé
Research Grants
Maillé, C. (2014-2017, SSHRC, Insight Grant, $157 657). Nouvelles compréhensions des questions de
différence dans les féminismes de la francophonie: pour un enrichissement de l’analyse différenciée
selon les sexes.
Décarie, F., et al., with Maillé, C. (2014-2017, FRQSC, Subvention de fonctionnement, $1 200 000). Réseau
québécois des études féministes.
Gagnon, A-G. et al., with Maillé, C. (2014-2017, FRQSC, Subvention de fonctionnement, $1 100 000).
Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité au Qubec (CRIDAQ).
Gagnon, A-G. et al., with Maillé, C. (2011-2014, FRQSC, Subvention de fonctionnement, $29 000). Centre
de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité au Québec (CRIDAQ).
Décarie, F., et al., with Maillé, C. (2011-2014, FRQSC, Subvention de fonctionnement, $258 791). Réseau
québécois des études féministes.
Simone de Beauvoir Institute 2013-2015 Report 25Publications
Maillé, C., Nielsen, G. & Salée, D. (eds.) (2014). Revealing Democracy: Secularism and Religion in Liberal
Democratic States. Brussels: Peter Lang.
Maillé, C. (2014). Feminist Perspectives on Honour Killings and Domestic Violence Among Indo-Canadian
Communities. In Madhu Vij, M., Bhatia, M. & Pandey, S. (eds.), Women’s Studies in India A Journey
of 25 years (pp. 269-280). New Delhi: Rawat Publications.
Maillé, C. (2014). Approche intersectionnelle, théorie postcoloniale et questions de différence dans les
féminismes anglo-saxons et francophones. Politique et Sociétés, 33 (1), 41-60.
Mahrouse, G., Maillé, C. & Salée, D. (2014). Monsieur Lazhar: Exploring the dis/junctures between art and
life in Quebec. Québec Studies, Journal of the American Council for Quebec Studies, 56(Fall Winter),
7-15.
Maillé, C. & Salée, D. (2013). Quebec, Secularism and Women’s Rights: on Feminism and Bill 94. In
Maillé, C., Nielsen, G. & Salée, D. (eds.), Revealing Democracy, Secularism and Religion in Liberal
Democratic States (pp. 1-32). Bern: Peter Lang.
Maillé, C. (2013). Féminismes, rapatriement de la Constitution et Charte canadienne des droits et libertés,
1982-2012: quel bilan ? In Rocher, F. & Benoît, P. (eds.), Le nouvel ordre constitutionnel canadien: du
rapatriement de 1982 à nos jours (pp. 165-178). Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec.
Maillé, C. (2013). Québec Feminists and Politics: From Nationalism to the Electoral Arena. In Lexer, R. &
Small, T. (eds.), Mind the Gaps: Canadian Perspectives on Gender and Politics (pp. 76-86). Halifax:
Fernwood Press.
Maillé, C. (2013). Les stratégies féministes de représentation des femmes dans l’action politique au Québec.
In Bourque, D., Descarries, F. & Caroline Désy (eds.), De l’assignation à l’éclatement. Continuités et
ruptures dans les représentations des femmes, Les Cahiers de l’IREF (Collection Agora No 4), 43-53.
Presentations
Maillé, C. (2015, April). Les Québécoises aux urnes - Les 75 ans du droit de vote des femmes au provincial.
Invited guest lecture, McCord Museum, Montreal, Canada.
Maillé, C. (2015, April). Quotas for women in politics in Rwanda. Women, Conflict and Peace Conference,
hosted by Women for Women McGill, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Maillé, C. (2014, November). Synthèse de clôture. Colloque Repenser et transformer la citoyenneté et la
démocratie à partir des marges dans les sociétés néolibérales contemporaines, organisé par l’équipe
de recherche ÉRASME, Montréal, Canada.
Maillé, C. (2014, October). Charter of Values, Women, Maple Spring and the 2014 Quebec Election.
American Council for Quebec Studies Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Maillé, C. (2014, May). Mots d’ouverture. Colloque Femmes racisées et recherche féministe au Québec,
ACFAS, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.
Maillé, C. (2014, May). Intégrer la diversité dans l’enseignement, la recherche et la pratique: défis et
expériences. Table ronde, colloque Femmes racisées et recherche féministe au Québec, ACFAS,
Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.
Maillé, C. (2014, March). Relectures postcoloniales du féminisme québécois. Événement commémoratif en
l’honneur de la première journée des femmes organisé par l’Association générale des étudiants et
étudiantes prégradués en philosophie de l’Université Laval, Laval, Canada.
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