About

Eléonore Lépinard is Associate Professor in gender studies at University of Lausanne. Her main areas of research are in the fields of feminist movements and theory, gender and law, intersectionality, and gender and political representation. She is the author of a monograph on the French parity reform (L’égalité introuvable: les féministes, la parité et la République, Presses de Sciences po, 2007), and the co-editor of a comparative volume on gender quotas in Europe, Transforming Gender Citizenship. The irresistible rise of gender quotas in Europe (with Ruth Rubio-Marin, Cambridge University Press, 2018), and Intersectionality in feminist and queer movements: challenging privileges (with Elizabeth Evans, Routledge 2020).  In recent years she has published her research in journals such as Politics, Groups & Identities, Gender & Society, European Journal of Women’s Studies, Politics and Politics & Gender, as well as a second monograph, Feminist Trouble: Intersectional Politics in Post-Secular Times  (Oxford University Press, 2020) which explores the reconfigurations of feminist movements in France and Québec.

Email: eleonore.lepinard@unil.ch