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Marylène Lieber

Associate Professor
University of Geneva
Who needs protection on the streets? The contrasted regulations of women’s presence in public space
01 September 2018 - 30 June 2019
Sociology
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Marylène Lieber is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Geneva. Sociologist, she is a specialist of both gender violence in public places and Chinese migration – with a particular focus on Chinese sex workers in Paris. She has an international experience as Scholar in France (University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin), in Switzerland (Universities of Neuchâtel and Geneva), and in the Chinese world (People’s University, Beijing; CEFC, Taipei and Hong Kong). Among other things she published Genre, violences et espaces publics, la vulnérabilité des femmes en question (Presses de Science Po, 2008); « Sex and emotion-based relations as a resource in migration: Northern Chinese women in Paris » (with F. Lévy, Revue Française de Sociologie – English Issue, vol. 52, 2011).

Research interests

Gender violence, public space, gender and migration, public policies, sociology of public
problems, China, Chinese migration

Who needs protection on the streets? The contrasted regulations of women’s presence in public space

My research project intends to analyze urban programs and policies that aim at ensuring the protection of women on the streets. As processes of inclusion and exclusion are a core issue when researching public space and urban policies, this project considers the case of Paris, by looking at the variety of rules and policies that regulate the presence of women in public places and analyzing the ways in which gendered programs that are supposed to target all women contribute to the categorization of some groups as legitimate and others as dangerous or undesirable, some individuals as autonomous, and others as in need of protection. In particular, it will explore how the issue of street harassment and gender violence in public places is dealt with differently in the Parisian project Gender and public places, in the local contract for safety and in the case of the management of street prostitution, thus highlighting how city governance and urban management of public places shape (and are shaped by) various representations of women’s vulnerability and autonomy, along the lines of class, sexuality, culture and race. While critiques of participatory urban programs are often based on the example of religious diversity, this project analyzes regulations aimed at groups of women who are usually considered radically distinct – women who sell sex and those who do not – and intends to highlight the moral construction of femininities which underpins womenfriendly urban policies.

Choreographic and sound walk organized as part of the collaboration between M. Lieber (2018-2019 Paris IAS fellow) and the Compagnie Acte
18 May 2019 17:30 -
18 May 2019 21:00,
Paris :
Public.ques !
Marylène Lieber presents her research project within the framework of the weekly internal seminar
12 Feb 2019 10:00 -
12 Feb 2019 13:00,
Paris :
Who needs protection on the streets? The contrasted regulations of women’s presence in public space
Round table organized by M. Lieber (2018-2019 Paris IAS fellow), K. Duplan (University of Geneva), and C. Schmoll (Paris Diderot / IUF)
14 Dec 2018 14:00 -
14 Dec 2018 16:30,
Paris :
Espaces, pouvoirs, politiques publiques – Promotion de la jeune recherche
Workshop organized by M. Lieber (2018-2019 Paris IAS fellow), K. Duplan (University of Geneva), and C. Schmoll (Paris Diderot / IUF)
13 Dec 2018 10:00 -
14 Dec 2018 16:30,
Paris :
Espaces, pouvoirs, politiques publiques
16 Nov 2018 10:00 -
16 Nov 2018 18:00,
Paris :
L’envers des politiques de lutte contre le harcèlement de rue et les nouveaux indésirables dans les espaces publics urbains
Talk by M. Lieber, 2018-2019 Paris IAS fellow
28 Sep 2018 09:00 -
28 Sep 2018 12:00,
Pantin :
Genrer la ville, vers de nouvelles exclusions ?
Talk by M. Lieber, 2018-2019 Paris IAS fellow
25 Sep 2018 18:00 -
25 Sep 2018 20:00,
Bruxelles :
Partager la ville : une utopie
Research project: "Who needs protection on the streets? The contrasted regulations of women’s presence in public space"
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2018-2019
Contemporary period (1789-…)
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