Colette Guillaumin

Colette Guillaumin (born in 1934) is a Sociologue with CNRS and a French Féministe.

It makes initially research which makes date on the Racisme: following Frantz Fanon, it underlines the inferiorisation of the not-white, and the hierarchisation of the people according to their biological characteristics. It is one of the first in sociology to recall that the concept of " Race " no scientific value has (it is an arbitrary mode of classification). It dismounts the naturalizing speeches, essentialists, which legitimate the Discrimination S.

As of the end of the year 1960, it is interested in the Féminisme. It integrates the team of drafting of the review feminist Questions founded in 1977 by Simone de Beauvoir, which is the source and the body of publication of the Féminisme materialist. It there côtoie Christine Delphy, Monique Wittig, Nicole-Claude Mathieu, Monique Plaza, Emmanuelle de Lesseps… In 1978, it made there appear an important article, " Practical of the capacity and idea of nature" , which theorizes the oppression of the women through the ideology and the social construction. Its analyzes recut those of the radical feminist and pose the stakes of the critic of the kind. She teaches in Canada.

In 1992, a collection takes again this article like several others published in the reviews Sociologie and companies (University of Montreal) or Mankind of which it is the Co-founder in 1981. She also writes in the review Sexe and race (University of Paris 7). The " term; sexage" that it creates to indicate the reduction of a person to her sex is taken again by Michele Causse. A homage is paid to Colette Guillaumin in May 2005 at the time of days of studies of Effigies to the IRESCO.

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