Francoise Gaspard

Francoise Gaspard (born the June 7th 1945 with Dreux) is a Sociologue Féministe and French political woman, socialist Maire of Dreux of 1977 with 1983 and Député E of Eure-et-Loir of 1981 with 1988. She was also appointed European and regional adviser.

Francoise Gaspard has triple formation of Historien (it is aggregate of history), of political sciences (it is graduate Institut of political studies of Paris) and of public law (former student of the National school of administration).

Socialist mayor of Dreux of 1977 to 1983, before the city rebascule on the right with the favor of an alliance between the National front and the RPR, Francoise Gaspard, writes a book on its experiment, a small town in France . She will assume then publicly her Homosexualité, becoming thus one of the first French political personalities to do it and almost only as a woman.

From January 1998 to 2000, it is Representing France at the Commission of the condition of the woman of UNO. It is since 2001 expert within Committee CEDAW of UNO, committee of experts in charge of the follow-up by the States which it ratified Convention of New York on the elimination of all discriminations with regard to the women and member of the National advisory commission of the human rights.

It is member of the committee of sponsorship of the French Coordination for the Decade of the culture of peace and non-violence.

After having exercised parliamentary mandates and buildings during twelve years, Francoise Gaspard chose to join again with research. She is currently University lecturer with the École of the high studies in social sciences (EHESS) of Paris and attached to the Center of sociological analysis and intervention, laboratory of the National center of the scientific research (CNRS). Its work led it to teach and give conferences in many universities in Europe and America. It took part in various missions of technical assistance in Europe and Africa for the introduction of the dimension of the kind into the legislations and the national policies.

Its academic work in particular concerned the history of the migrations, the urban Sociologie and the social movements. Its works and articles are, for number of them, available in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic and Japanese.

Francoise Gaspard played a part pioneer in the introduction of the gay studies and lesbians in France: she led, with Didier Eribon, a seminar of research to the EHESS (of 1998 to 2004) devoted to the sociology of homosexualities; it codirige with Bruno Perreau the first French course on homosexuality intended for students of first cycle (in Sciences Po, since spring 2006).

Works

To remember and future Dreux , Évreux, Herissey, 1977.
Mrs It…, Paris, Grasset, 1978.
End of the immigrants , with Claude Servan-Schreiber, Paris, the Threshold, 1984 (translated in Japanese, Nobuhiro Hayashi, 1989).
Maurice Violet, a man, Three Republics , Museum of Chartres, 1985.
Maurice Violet, politician and leader-writer , Pontoise, Edijac, 1986.
De Dreux in Algiers, Maurice Violet 1870-1970 , (to dir.) Paris, Harmattan, 1991.
a Small town in France, Paris , Gallimard, 1990 (translated in English, Harvard University Near, 1995).
With the capacity citizens! Freedom, Equality, Parity , with Claude Servan-Schreiber and Anne Gall, Paris, the Threshold, 1992.
the Scarf and the Republic , with Farhad Khosrokhavar, Paris, Editions of the Discovery, 1995.
the U.F.J.T., Of a working youth to a dubious youth, Forty years of history of an associative movement, 1955-1995 , Paris, Editions of the Workshop, 1995.
Women in decision making in France and Europe (to dir.), Paris, Harmattan, 1997.
How women change the policy , with Philippe Bataille, Paris, Éditions of the Discovery, 1999 (translated into Spanish and Arabic).
the black Book of the condition of the women , 2006.

External bonds

the funds Francoise Gaspard of the college library of Angers

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