SENIOR LECTURE ROSEMARY AUCHMUTY AND SENIOR LECTURE ALEXANDRINE GUYARD-NEDELEC INTERVIEWS

Abstract

From the 10th to 12th of July, 2022, in Paris, France, the International Conference "Feminism, Law and Citizenship" (Congrès International Féminisme, Droit et Citoyenneté) was held by the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and the University of Reading, together with the Gender, Law and Society and Society Working Group of the Research Committee for the Sociology of Law (RCSL). The conference explored contemporary issues in the field of feminism, law and citizenship, embracing papers related to the following perspectives: democracy and the rise of populism; feminist activism; gender and sexuality; gender equality; intersectionality; reproductive rights and reproductive justice; women's rights, among others. The organizers of the event were Professor Rosemary Auchmuth and Professor Alexandrine Guyard-Nedelec. Rosemary Auchmuty is Senior Lecturer of Law at the University of Reading (England) since 2007, teaching Land Law and Gender and Law. She is a pioneer in women's studies and feminist legal studies in higher education in Britain. She writes on sexuality, marriage/civil union, feminist legal history, and feminist approaches to law in general. She, in 1984, she cofounded the Lesbian History Group and has written two books on girls' school histories. More recently, she edited the book Great Debates in Gender and Law (Palgrave, 2018) and co-edited the Women's Legal Landmarks project. Rosemary Auchmuty's research areas are Sociology of Law, legal education, legal professions, feminism, property law, marriage, legal history and biography. Alexandrine Guyard-Nedelec is a professor of British civilization at the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research work falls within an interdisciplinary perspective and aims to question the British legal sphere through the prism of gender. Her interests revolve around intersectional discrimination in the legal professions, the right to abortion, the practice of adoption without consent, and caesarean section by court order. She has co-edited the works "My Body, My Rights!" Abortion threatened?" (Paris, Mare and Martin, 2018) and "Feminisms of the 21st century: a third wave?" (Rennes, PUR, 2017). Alexandrine Guyard-Nedelec's research topics are gender, identity, discrimination; intersectionality; legal professions and Sociology of Law. One of the interviewers, Carolina Pereira Lins Mesquita, professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and editor-in-chief of the Confluences Journal, had the opportunity to be present at the event and present the paper "Me Too and the decisions: diary and analysis of the sexual crimes of the spiritual surgeon 'John of God". It was from there that the idea to build an interview with the two professors, international exponents of feminism studies, came up, together with Thaís Henrique Dias, Ph.D. student in Social and Legal Sciences at the Postgraduate Program in Sociology and Law at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (PPGSD/UFF), and Clara Possebom Pinto, undergraduate in Social Sciences at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), the last one cooperated with the translation of the interviews into Portuguese.