} Juliette Rennes is a French sociologist. Since 2021, she has been the director of studies at the

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(EHESS). She is also the director of the Center for the Study of Social Movements (CEMS). Rennes' research topics are related to the history and sociology of gender, work, and discrimination.

Education

She studied literature at the École normale supérieure in Fontenay-Saint-Cloud. She wrote her master's thesis on the French extreme right-wing pamphlets of the 1930s, then her

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thesis on the genesis and dissemination of the notion of "national preference". In 1999, she joined the association Mix-Cité and became its spokesperson from 2001 to 2003. In 2000, she began to write a thesis in

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

on the sources and recompositions of anti-

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since the end of the 19th century. In 2004, she did a research stay at

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, Canada where she worked with Marc Angenot. In 2005, under the direction of Pierre Birnbaum, she defended her thesis entitled at the

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Career

In 2006, Rennes was appointed as a lecturer at the Institute of Communication of the

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, where she taught courses on discourse theory, media

semiology Semiotics ( ) is the systematic study of sign processes and the communication of meaning. In semiotics, a sign is defined as anything that communicates intentional and unintentional meaning or feelings to the sign's interpreter. Semiosis is a ...

, and

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. In 2009, she joined a Russian-speaking

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on gender, taught a master's degree on gender at

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, in

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, Lithuania, in collaboration with Belarusian researchers. In 2010, she was elected to the EHESS, her research program focuses on the history of controversies related to equal rights. Since October 2010, she is co-director with Rose-Marie Lagrave and Éric Fassin of the research program at EHESS entitled " genre, politique et sexualité". In 2015, she directed an exhibition at the Museum of Living History in Montreuil entitled "Women in Men's Professions: a visual history (XIXth-XXth))". In 2016, she directed the '' Encyclopédie critique du genre''. She is a statutory member of the Center for the Study of Social Movements at EHESS.

Selected works

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rennes, Juliette 1976 births Living people French sociologists French women sociologists McGill University alumni French feminists People from Paris