Gender Trouble and Return of the Sexual in a Cisgender Research Collective Confronted with Trans* Femininity

Professor of social psychology at the University of Sorbonne Paris Nord. Her teaching brings together the psychodynamics of work, care studies, gender, and sexuality studies. As a researcher she focuses on the analysis of the work of caregivers, their work organization, and physical contact with patients. She is especially interested in the ordinary forms of the ethics of caregiving as it is developed and discussed in care collectives. She is further interested in forms of gendered identities and subjectivations at the crossroads of the demands of the drive and social constraints. She also works from a critical perspective that brings together psychological and psychoanalytic theories, gender studies, and situated knowledges. She is the author of several books and numerous articles. She has helped found the Gender Institute of the French Centre for National Scientific Research (CNRS), of which she was the codirector for four years, until 2016. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cahiers du genre.