Anne-Marie Devreux Explained

Anne-Marie Devreux (born 1952) is a French sociologist specializing in feminism and the sociology of gender relations.

Biographical information

Born in 1952, Devreux became a researcher at the Centre d'Anthropologie, d'Économie et de Sociologie, Applications et Recherches, CAESAR, in the Research Team of the University of Paris-Nanterre, from 1980 to 1984. Then from 1989 to 1992, she was an associate researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de la Défense Nationale (CSDN), at the Ministry of Defense, then at the Centre de Sociologie Urbaine (CSU).[1]

She holds the position of research director at the CNRS, attached to CRESPPA,[2] Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris, CSU (Cultures and Urban Societies) team.

From 2010 to 2013, she led the Multidisciplinary Thematic Network (MNT) Gender Studies. This MNT initiates interdisciplinarity between social sciences and hard sciences, introducing gender studies in three scientific fields (medicine and health, ecology and environment, engineering and technology), in France.[3] This research programme resulted in a book published in 2016, Les sciences et le genre.[4] Together with Françoise Moos, Devreux is also scientific manager of the Défi genre de la Mission pour l'Interdisciplinarité of the CNRS.[5]

Since 2018, she has been the scientific and organizational head of the International Congress of Feminist Research in the French-speaking World (CIRFF), which takes place at the University of Paris-Nanterre.[6] [7]

Research themes

Devreux contributes to the development of feminist studies in France, as her research makes it possible to grasp "the contributions of gender relations to sociological conceptualization."[8]

Devreux's work also focuses on the androcentrism of science.[9] She considers that women are both under-represented as scientists and as objects of study and that this leads to an androcentrism of the knowledge we have.[10] She criticized Pierre Bourdieu's "blind lucidity,"[11] which unduly poses as the "discoverer" of "the importance of the field of male domination and the role played there by systems of representation and the effects of categorization, all of which were scientifically established well before the article in the Actes de la Recherche written almost ten years before the book and which constitutes its major part."[12] [13]

Anne-Marie Devreux underlines the methodological impasse in ethnology and sociology if they do not go beyond the essentialist conception of sex: the feminine is the particular, the masculine is the general. She also highlights the social relationship of the sexes and the need to conceptualize them.[14] [15]

Together with Nadine Lefaucheur, Georges Falconnet, Daniel Welzer-Lang and Christine Castelain-Meunier, Devreux is one of the first researchers to work on masculinity.[16]

Devreux also questions the unequal relationship between men and women in parenthood,[17] [18] [19] and anti-feminism.[20]

Main publications

Awards

She was knighted on 1 January 2017 by the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research.[22]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Christian . Topalov . 1992. Centre de recherche. Le Centre de sociologie urbaine (CSU). Politix. fr. 5. 20. 195–201.
  2. Web site: Site web du CRESPPA. fr.
  3. Web site: CRESPPA - UMR 7217 - Devreux Anne-Marie. www.cresppa.cnrs.fr. fr. 2018-11-06.
  4. Mengotti. Marie. 2017. Les sciences et le genre. Déjouer l'androcentrisme ed. by Anne-Marie Devreux (review). Population, English Edition. en. 72. 4. 723–724. 1958-9190. 2018-11-08.
  5. Web site: Les sciences du vivant ont besoin du genre. CNRS Le journal. fr. 2018-11-04.
  6. Web site: CIRFF2018. fr. 9 March 2018.
  7. awathiam7. 30 August 2018. AUX ORGANISATRICES DU "CIRFF2018". Club de Mediapart. fr-FR. 2018-11-04.
  8. Web site: Pourquoi la sociologie n'a pas (encore ?) fait sa révolution féministe. 15 June 2017. Association des sociologues enseignant-e-s du supérieur. fr. 3 April 2018.
  9. Web site: CRESPPA - UMR 7217 - Devreux Anne-Marie. www.cresppa.cnrs.fr. fr. 2018-11-04.
  10. Devreux Anne-Marie (dir.), 2016, Les sciences et le genre. Déjouer l'androcentrisme, Rennes, PUR, Essais, 292 p.. Marie Mengotti. Population. 2018 . 72 . 4 . 755–756 . 10.3917/popu.1704.0755 .
  11. Mathieu Trachman. 2 February 2011. Les sciences sociales ont-elles un sexe ?. La Vie des idées. fr.
  12. Anne-Marie Devreux, « La critique féministe et La domination masculine », published on the website Mouvements. Des idées et des luttes (accessed 3 April 2018)
  13. News: La recherche doit mieux prendre en compte les différences entre les sexes. La-Croix.com. 2014-05-05. La Croix. fr. 2018-11-04.
  14. Web site: Pourquoi la sociologie n'a pas (encore ?) fait sa révolution féministe Ases. Artemisa Flores-Espínola. 15 June 2017. sociologuesdusuperieur.org. fr. 2018-09-07.
  15. Jean-Louis Jeannelle. 21 October 2010. "Sous les sciences sociales, le genre" et "De la différence des sexes : le genre en histoire". Le Monde.fr. fr-FR. 2018-11-04.
  16. Marion Rousset. 19 May 2018. L'homme enfin inclus dans les études de genre. Le Monde.fr. fr-FR. 2018-09-07.
  17. 2017-09-04. Charge mentale: à l'école aussi. Slate.fr. fr-FR. 2018-11-04.
  18. 2011-05-01. Au nom du bien-être de l'enfant. Le Monde diplomatique. fr. 2018-11-04.
  19. Anne-Marie Devreux. 2004. Autorité parentale et parentalité. Droits des pères et obligations des mères ?. Dialogue . 165 . 3.
  20. Anne-Marie Devreux et t Diane Lamoureux.. Les antiféminismes : une nébuleuse aux manifestations tangibles. Cahiers du Genre . 52 . 1 . 2012 . 7–22.
  21. Jean-Louis Jeannelle. 21 October 2010. "Sous les sciences sociales, le genre" et "De la différence des sexes : le genre en histoire". Le Monde. fr-FR. 2018-11-04.
  22. http://www.legiondhonneur.fr/sites/default/files/promotion/lh20170101.pdf#page=12 Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur

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