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Gender and sexualities: the reactionary offensive of the far right

Cassandre Begous , Fanny Gallot — 2024-09-29T06:25:18Z

The French publishing house Editions Amsterdam has just published the first book from the La Boétie Institute , entitled Extrême droite: la résistible ascension. Coordinated by Ugo Palheta , with a preface by the historian Johann Chapoutot and an afterword by Clémence Guetté, this work aims to provide intellectual weapons, rooted in contemporary research ,on the far right, in order to understand and combat the rise of the FN/RN (National Front/National Rally).

- IV596-September 2024 / France, Women, LGBT, Far Right

Women in the yellow jacket movement: class revolt, gender transgression

Fanny Gallot — 2018-12-22T08:39:51Z

In recent days, the media has reported on the significant presence of women of all ages in the yellow jackets' mobilization. On the ground, they are indeed present at roundabouts and appear regularly in the media. Several figures have emerged, such as Priscilla Ludoski, who initiated a petition that gathered nearly a million signatures, or Jacline Mouraud, who posted a video on facebook at the end of October. They denounce the decline in their purchasing power, tax injustices, low salaries, but also the condescension of the government and its contempt for the working class, summed up by the slogan calling for Emmanuel Macron to resign.

- IV527 - December 2018 / France, Women

Beyond the rejection of the law for the legalization of abortion in Argentina: a fourth feminist wave?

Bettina Ghio, Fanny Gallot — 2018-10-13T21:09:27Z

Two correspondents for the French journal Contretemps, Fanny Gallot and Bettina Ghio, were in Buenos Aires a few days before the Senate vote. They conducted two interviews, to retrace the building and the challenges of the present feminist movement: one with Dolores Fenoy and the other with Dora Barrancos. Then, shortly after the rejection by the Senate, they asked some questions to middle and high school girls who are involved in the movement.

- IV525 - October 2018 / Women, Argentina

The implications of gender equality at work on female workers from 1968 to the 1980s in France

Fanny Gallot — 2013-11-21T15:20:37Z

This paper was presented at the Historical Materialism Conference in London, 10 November 2013, in the panel on “A comparative analysis of socialist/class struggle feminism in France and Britain in the 1970s and 1980s”.

- Sexual politics / France, Women, Sexual politics, Features