Lecturer and Researcher at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France. She is Co-Director of the Masters Programme in Gender, Politics, and Sexuality at the EHESS. Her research focuses on the history of controversies concerning social struggles for equality since the 19th century in Europe, particularly in France. Among her publications are the following: ‘The French Republican Model and Women’s Access to Professional Work. Issues and Controversies in France from the 1870’s to the 1930’s’, Gender and History 23(2); ‘Analysing Controversy. The Contributions of Argumentation Study to Political Science’, in Simone Bonnafous and Malika Temmar (eds.) (2013) Discourse Analysis and Social Sciences (Bern: Peter Lang, 2013), pp. 95-112; “Legal distinctions or discriminations? 1Cairn.info “, Politix, 94 (2011); /Femmes en métiers d’hommes/, éd. Bleu autour (2013). In addition, she is an EditorialBoard Member of the following french journals: /Travail, Genre et Société/; /Clio. Femmes, genre, histoire/; and /Mouvements/