Francine Descarries

Francine Descarries (born 1942) is a Canadian sociologist. She is a professor of sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She is considered a leading figure in feminist studies in Quebec.[1][2][3]

Francine Descarries
Born1942 (age 80–81)
Academic background
Alma materUniversité de Montréal
Academic work
DisciplineSociology
InstitutionsUniversité du Québec à Montréal

Biography

At the age of 16, after the death of her father, Descarries left school so that her family could afford her brother's medical training. Descarries found work as a legal secretary then as a travel agent, then left the workforce to care for her children.[3] She returned to school at age 27, shortly after the birth of her second child. She attended Cégep Édouard-Montpetit. With a scholarly interest in women's issues and feminism, Descarries went on to earn undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in sociology from the Université de Montréal.[2][4]

In 1980, Descarries published L'École rose… et les cols roses (The pink school... and the pink collar), based on her master's research. The book addressed the sexual division of labour and social reproduction in workplaces and schools in Quebec.[1][5][6]

In 1985, she joined the faculty at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).[3] In 1990, she became a founding member of the Institute of Feminist Research and Studies at UQAM.[2][3] Descarries served as the scientific committee director for the 7th International Congress of Feminist Research in Francophonie, held in Montreal in 2015.[3]

Descarries's scholarly interests include feminist theory, the evolution of the women's movement in Quebec, family, and women in the workforce.[3]

Awards and honours

Selected works

Books
  • Descarries-Bélanger, Francine (1980). L'école rose—et les cols roses: la reproduction de la division sociale des sexes (in French). Montréal: Éditions coopératives A. Saint-Martin. ISBN 978-2-89035-019-9.
  • Robbins, Wendy; Luxton, Meg; Eichler, Margrit; Descarries, Francine (2009). Minds of Our Own: Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966–76. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. p. 348. ISBN 978-1-55458-774-2.

Articles

References
  1. "Un regard féministe sur la société". Fonds Société et culture (in Canadian French). 2017. Archived from the original on 2020-04-11. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
  2. Désy, Caroline (2019-10-11). "Francine Descarries, lauréate d'un Prix du Québec | UQAM". Actualités UQAM (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-11.
  3. Gomez, Véronica; Mathieu, Marie (2019). "Francine Descarries, sociologue-militante féministe québécoise. Institutionnaliser les études féministes pour transformer la société". Nouvelles Questions Féministes (in French). 38 (2): 108. doi:10.3917/nqf.382.0108. ISSN 0248-4951. S2CID 213874340.
  4. Tomulescu, Raluca (2014-04-16). "Cartographe du féminisme". Montréal Campus (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-10.
  5. Robbins, Wendy; Luxton, Meg; Eichler, Margrit; Descarries, Francine (2009). Minds of Our Own: Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966–76. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. p. 348. ISBN 978-1-55458-774-2.
  6. "Les Prix du Québec - la récipiendaire Francine Descarries". Les Prix du Québec. 2019. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
  7. "Past Award Winners". The Royal Society of Canada. Archived from the original on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
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