Research directions
LEGALVEIL - the legal consciousness of veiled Muslim women in Switzerland, France and the UK
This project is financed by the Swiss national science foundation (2020-2024). It explores the legal consciousness of veiled Muslim women in three countries which adopted contrasting legislations on this religious garnment: France being the most prohibitive, the UK being the more liberal. The concept of legal consciousness captures the ways in which individuals perceive law and justice and their self-representation as subjects of rights. The comparative framework allows to assess how prohibitive or liberal legislations shape the political subjectivities in this minoritized group situated at the intersection of several social relations: gender, race, class and religion.
Intersectionality and feminist movements
My research looks at how women's movements are reconfigured by intersectional challenges. I analyze in particular debates and critiques voiced in the name of intersectionality and how they refashion social movements and women's organizations. I also study how feminist organizations attempt to implement intersectional and inclusive practices, and the tools they elaborate to do so.
Gender quotas in France and in comparative perspective
Following my work on the genesis, the legitimation and the adoption of the French parity laws, I investigate the diffusion of gender quota beyond politics in France (corporate boards and public bodies), as well as (together with Ruth Rubio-Marin from the European University institute, Florence, Italy), the commonalities and differences in the processes leading the the adoption of gender quotas in Europe. Research was carried out within the project
Gender Quotas Blog and led to the publishing of the book
Transforming Gender Citizenship. The Irresistible Rise of Gender Quotas in Europe, in 2018 by Cambridge University Press.
Gendered inequalities and globalization in the legal professions
Please see the project FNS "Gendered globalization of the legal professions".
