Jacqueline Feldman | |
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| Born | August 8, 1936 |
| Occupation | Sociologist |
Jacqueline Feldman (born August 8, 1936) is a French sociologist and author. She worked as a researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research until retirement in 2001, but has continued to publish until 2020[1]. She co-founded FMA (Féminin, Masculin, Avenir), one of the ancestors that later would become Mouvement de libération des femmes in 1970.
Biography
editEarly life
editJacqueline Feldman was born in Paris of secular Polish Jewish immigrants, her father working as a tailor. Her parents moved to Paris from Łódź in 1928. She has an older sister, born in 1932. During the second world war, the family moved from Paris to Noirétable in order to avoid the Nazis. After the war, the family returned to Paris.
Later (around 2000), she worked as a witness and an historian on the history of this village, as a way to show her gratitude[2] .
Early professional career as physicist
editAfter getting a job at the CNRS i 1956, she would be sent the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen where took on a French doctoral PhD in theoretical physics with Ben Roy Mottelson as advisor. She would also meet her future husband here. Together, they published a paper in 1961[3] , that was later sited by Mottelson in his Nobel lecture (1975)[4].
The final paper was published[5] in 1963, the year she sustained her doctorat thesis. She worked as a physicist at Norwegian Institute of Technology (1963-64) and at the CERN (1964-67).
After may 1968, she contributed to scientism in the critical review Impatience[6]
Professional career as a sociologist
editIn 1968 she would switch professionally from theoretical physics to sociology. She had always been interested in sociology, an interest that was enhanced by the political events in Paris in 1968. The sociologists at CNRS were in need of people with strong mathematical background, making the organizational switch easy.
Witnessing the very different ways of thinking in the hard and soft sciences, she developed epistemological reflections about it[7][8].
She also worked on the taboos of sexuality, feminism, and women in science[9][10][11].
FMA
editIn 1967 Feldman and Anne Zelensky founded the FMA (Féminin, Masculin, Avenir). As one of several groups, FMA would in 1970 becomeMLF[12][13]. While the other ancestors of the MLF were purely focused on women's rights and emancipation, the FMA originally had members of both genders and had a focus on women and men collaborating for a better society. It would later become a women-only group.
At and during the occupation of Sorbonne in May 1968, Feldman and Zelensky would organize women-themed meeting, inviting and having Évelyne Sullerot to one of them.
Marriage and children
editFeldman was married in 1961 to physicist Hallstein Høgåsen that she met at the Niels Bohr Institute - they divorced in 1975. They have two children, a boy (born 1962) and a girl (1963).
Philosophical and/or political views
editShe has always been somewhat involved in trying to change society. In 1960 that was supporting the independence of Algeria, later she was active in the May 68 student movement and the right of women and workers. In 2019, with feminist friends, she launched a call to obtain the right of Assisted suicide[14].
Books
edit- La sexualité du Petit Larousse, ou, Le jeu du dictionnaire (1980) [10]
- Voyage mal poli à travers les savoirs et la science (1980) [11]
- Françoise Laborie, 1938-2016 : histoire d'une femme en science (2020) [1]
In collaboration with others
editReferences/Notes and references
edit- ^ a b Feldman, Jacqueline (2020). Françoise Laborie, 1938-2016 : histoire d'une femme en science (in French). Paris: l'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-343-17472-3. OCLC 1163844754.
- ^ "1940 - 1944 : Pays de Noirétable, terre d'accueil des Familles Juives - Ciné documentaire" ["1940-1944: Noirétable, A haven for Jewish families (showing of documentary film)"] (in French). Retrieved 2020-08-30.
- ^ Feldman, Jacqueline (1961). "A study of some approximations of the Pairing Force". Nuclear Physics. 28: 258.
- ^ Mottelson, Ben R. (1975). "Elementary Modes of Excitation in the Nucleus". The Nobel Price. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Thesis 1963was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Impascience" (in French). Retrieved 2020-08-30.
- ^ Feldman, Jacqueline (1992). "Le choc de deux cultures : la rencontre des mathématiques et des sciences humaines dans les années soixante". La Révolution interdisciplinaire aujourd'hui: 17–30.
- ^ Feldman, Jacqueline (1999). ""L'affaire Sokal: un épisode de la méconnaissance entre cultures"". "L'année sociologique" (49): 245–270.
- ^ Feldman, Jacqueline (1975). "Les rapports nationaux sur les comportements sexuels : un exemple de deux types d'interaction science-société". Archives Européennes de Sociologie (in French). XVI: 95–110.
- ^ a b Feldman, Jacqueline (1980). La sexualité du Petit Larousse, ou, Le jeu du dictionnaire (in French). Paris: Éditions Tierce. p. 175. ISBN 978-2-903144-07-4. OCLC 7742119.
- ^ a b Feldman, Jacqueline (1980). Voyage mal poli à travers les savoirs et la science (in French). Paris: Éditions Tierce. p. 85.
- ^ Feldman, Jacqueline (2009). "Libération des femmes. Année Zéro". Clio. Histoire‚ femmes et sociétés (29): 193–203. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
- ^ Picq, Françoise (7 October 2008). "MLF: 1970, année zéro". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2018-06-02.
- ^ "Choisir sa vie, choisir sa mort, des femmes persistent et signent" [Choosing your life, choosing your death, women persist and sign]. Libération (in French). 31 October 2019. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ^ Feldman, Jacqueline (1991). Moyenne, milieu, centre : histoires et usages (in French). Paris: Ed. de l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales. p. 364. ISBN 2-7132-0972-2. OCLC 406687994.
- ^ Feldman, Jacqueline (1996). Éthique, épistémologie et sciences de l'homme (in French). Paris Montréal: L'Harmattan. p. 208. ISBN 2-7384-4344-3. OCLC 124084608.
- ^ Feldman, Jacqueline (2006). L'idée de science au XIXe siècle : huit soirées de lecture à la Bibliothèque des amis de l'instruction du IIIe arrondissement (in French). Paris Budapest Kinshasa: L'Harmattan. ISBN 2-296-01557-3. OCLC 470742785.