Management and team. Structure
- Director
- Programs Unit Management
- Research assistant director
- Professors, Associates
Objectives
- To promote and develop feminist training and research from an interdisciplinary perspective and offering several multidisciplinary programs in women’s studies.
- More than 73 professor-researchers and numerous research teams carry out research on women, feminisms and gender relations. Their themes focus on: citizenship, social commitment, democracy; sexualities, violence, inequalities, articulation studies-family-work.
Research and results
- Your antifeminism, our replies: from humor to physical confrontation (Melissa Blais and Marie-Soleil Chretien, 2018) à Report available in the website: Blais, Mélissa and Chrétien, Marie Soleil, Votre antiféminisme, nos répliques. De l’humour à l’affrontement physique. Montréal, L’R des centres de femmes du Québec/ Service aux collectivités de l’UQAM, 2018.
- Domestic work, paid work and the financial situation of parents with a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (Catherine Des Rivières Pigeon, Hélène Belleau, Elsa Galerand and Nathalie Poirier, 2015-2018).
- On-screen sex. Representation of women’s sexuality in television series (Anne Martine Parent, 2017-2019) [No results information].
- Ordinary prestige: erotic capital, sexualization and mediatization of the self (Chiara Piazzesi, 2017-2020) à Book: Chiara Piazzesi, Intimités et sexualités contemporaines: Les transformations des pratiques et des représentations, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2020.
- MACLIC – Mapping Contemporary Love and Intimacy Ideals in Canada (Chiara Piazzesi) à Project website: maclic.uqam.ca/le-projet-maclic/
- Women’s rights and the fight against violence: promoting Haitian knowledge, perpetuating feminist organizations (Denyse Côté, 2018-2022).
Ongoing projects
- Citizen participation in connection with a public health project in West Africa: issues, challenges and conditions for success (S. Yates and J. Saint-Charles, in progress).
- Generating and passing on gender-conscious knowledge about equality, equity and occupational/environmental health (Marie Laberge, in progress).