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une conference...

Aujourd'hui avait lieu à Uni-Mail une conference interesante sur le sujet: “les alliance entre le Movements de Femmes et les Institution Gouvernementales pour l'égalité de Femmes. Vers le Feminisme d'Etat?”. Les points principaux ont été: comprendre le Mouvement de Femmes (MF) et les appareils Gouvernementaux des Femmes (AGF) comme le Feminisme d'Etat et la recherche sur l'allience MF avec AGF et le Feminisme d'Etat.

More less... dimension of state feminism include the presence and interplay between a women's policy agency (ex. Bureau fédéral de l'égalité entre femmes et hommes in Swiss) and the presence of a women's movements. Feminist policy focus on any government action that explicitly promotes women status and rights in relation to men's, however those rights are defined in specific cultural context and seems to undermine the gender-based hierarchy that contribute to enduring sex-based inequities...
I've found one really interesting open question: does any correlation exist between (rising) number of Governmental Institution for Equal Opportunities and (diminishing) feminist movement?
If you are interesting by the conference organise by Gender studies there is agenda on the wall in CCC room or http://www.unige.ch/etudes-genre
I also recuperated few links from conference's participants:), we can ask for appointment with Lorena Parini (Études genre) or in Bureau de l'égalité des droits entre homme et femme , where as they informed me, is huge data base about feminism movement in Swiss
voilà:
http://www.socialinfo.ch/cf/site/page.cfm?id=48
everything about woman network in Swiss (bureaux de l'égalité, informations juridiques, associations, périodiques, etudes féminines, répertoires )
http://www.feminism.ch/