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Delphine Gardey

Professor
University of Geneva
Disruptive Bodies ? Gender and Coloniality in French Parliaments (1793-1958)
01 February 2018 - 30 June 2019
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Delphine Gardey has been Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Geneva and head of the Gender Program and Institute since 2009. She has held permanent research position as an historian and permanent teaching positions as a sociologist in Paris (Cité des Sciences et de l’industrie ; Université Paris 8 ; Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) and non-permanent teaching positions at Sciences-Po Paris and the EHESS. She was Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Berlin) and fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Her last book, Le linge du Palais-Bourbon (2015) proposes a material and gendered history of the French Parliament.

Research Interests:

Social and gender history; feminist theory; gender and science; gender and technology; technology studies; history of information society; history and anthropology of writing ; gender, parliament and coloniality.

Disruptive Bodies ? Gender and Coloniality in French Parliaments (1793-1958)

The aim of this project could be described in several ways. It is to extend what I have done in my previous work, an investigation of the material, social and gendered ways of acting and behaving of and in the French Parliaments between 1793 and 1970, in order to introduce other "disruptive bodies": colonial, "colored" subjects, eventually "colonized" women. It is to bring complexity and depth to the narrative by adding to the women question the colonial and racial ones, to characterize the gender and coloniality of legislative bodies. The interest is historical: the objective is to carry out intersectional analyses, to do prosopographical work, etc. It is also theoretical: introducing women or men "of color" does not raise the same questions – a century and a half was needed, for example, between the admission of the first black legislator (1793) and the election of the first female deputies (1945). But the project also aims at trying and focus on the material conditions of parliamentary work, from dress codes and the partitions of space, to the racialization and gender division processes, the way they interact or not. In short, through a study on the French case, the goal is to advance a symmetrical anthropology of western and contemporary institutions, the reintegration of the racial and gendered dimension at the heart of the metropolitan institutions that centrally contribute to the definition of republicanism and universalism.


Lecture by D. Gardey, 2017-2018 Paris IAS fellow
14 May 2018 14:00 -
14 May 2018 17:00,
Paris :
Genre et colonialité à l’Assemblée nationale
Seminar organized by D. Gardey (2017-2018 Paris IAS fellow)
04 May 2018 14:30 -
04 May 2018 17:30,
Paris :
Gouverner la sexualité féminine, gouverner la biologie synthétique
17 Apr 2018 14:00 -
17 Apr 2018 17:00,
Paris :
Un paradoxe républicain ? Le corps sans corps de la Représentation nationale en France depuis 1789
22 Mar 2018 19:00 -
22 Mar 2018 21:00,
Paris :
Les sciences du désir : la sexualité féminine de la psychanalyse aux neurosciences
Delphine Gardey presents her research project within the framework of the weekly internal seminar
20 Mar 2018 11:00 -
20 Mar 2018 13:00,
Paris :
Disruptive Bodies? Gender and Coloniality in French Parliaments (1789-1958)
Roundtable organized by D. Gardey (2017-2018 Paris IAS fellow) and G. Mirdal (Paris IAS director)
08 Mar 2018 19:00 -
08 Mar 2018 21:00,
Paris :
Pouvoir des femmes, femmes de pouvoir ?
Research project: "Disruptive Bodies ? Gender and Coloniality in French Parliaments (1793-1958)"
Table ronde organisée par Delphine Gardey (Professeur d'histoire contemporaine, Université de Genève / résidente 2017-2018 de l'IEA de Paris) et Gretty Mirdal (directrice de l'IEA de Paris) à l'occasion de la journée internationale des droits des femmes
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2017-2018
Contemporary period (1789-…)
Western Europe
delphine.gardey@unige.ch