Le quart féminin des géographes : dynamiques et limites de la féminisation dans la géographie universitaire française et internationale (1928-1938)

Between 1928 and 1939, the French academic geography community changes: only male professors, but an increasing number of women, from 10 to 25 per cent of the students during the period. This relative but unquestionnable feminisation received little attention until now. These women were no pioneers...

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Main Author: Nicolas Ginsburger
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Published: Éditions de la Sorbonne 2017-10-01
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description Between 1928 and 1939, the French academic geography community changes: only male professors, but an increasing number of women, from 10 to 25 per cent of the students during the period. This relative but unquestionnable feminisation received little attention until now. These women were no pioneers any more, but almost “regular” geographers, even if only a few major female figures emerged till the end of the thirties. These little known women exemplify some social processes, such as endogamy, weak professionalisation and polycentric organisation of the French academic system. The Thirties are consequently a very contrasted decade for women geographers, between inclusion and exclusion in a changing disciplinary field.
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Le quart féminin des géographes : dynamiques et limites de la féminisation dans la géographie universitaire française et internationale (1928-1938)
Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines
Women
Academic Geography
International geographical Congresses
Thirties
title Le quart féminin des géographes : dynamiques et limites de la féminisation dans la géographie universitaire française et internationale (1928-1938)
title_full Le quart féminin des géographes : dynamiques et limites de la féminisation dans la géographie universitaire française et internationale (1928-1938)
title_fullStr Le quart féminin des géographes : dynamiques et limites de la féminisation dans la géographie universitaire française et internationale (1928-1938)
title_full_unstemmed Le quart féminin des géographes : dynamiques et limites de la féminisation dans la géographie universitaire française et internationale (1928-1938)
title_short Le quart féminin des géographes : dynamiques et limites de la féminisation dans la géographie universitaire française et internationale (1928-1938)
title_sort le quart feminin des geographes dynamiques et limites de la feminisation dans la geographie universitaire francaise et internationale 1928 1938
topic Women
Academic Geography
International geographical Congresses
Thirties
url http://journals.openedition.org/rhsh/641
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