Michèle Pujol

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Dr. Michèle A. Pujol
Born20 April 1951 (1951-04-20)
Madaoua, Niger
Died2 August 1997(1997-08-02) (aged 46)
Salt Spring Island, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Era19th and 20th century economics
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolFeminism, political economy, feminist economics, social justice
InstitutionsUniversity of Victoria, Canada
Main interests
Epistemology, political economy, ethics, feminist economics
Notable ideas
John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill, feminist economists, feminist economics

Michèle Pujol (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl]) (20 April 1951 – 2 August 1997), was a French feminist, economist, scholar, and human rights activist. She was an assistant professor at the University of Victoria's Department of Women's Studies and held a chair at the University of Manitoba.

Pujol wrote essays and histories about socioeconomic issues affecting women, as well as a bibliography in several volumes on women's contributions to economics. She was known for teaching and writing critical studies of economics, as well as for her book Feminism and Anti-Feminism in Early Economic Thought.[1] In the 1980s and 1990s, Pujol was associated with lesbian feminism.[2]

Biography

Early life

Pujol was born in Madaoua, Niger. She was the daughter of a French colonial administrator in Niger and a home economist. She went to college in Paris, where she studied mathematics, and went on to get a bachelor's degree in economics.

She arrived in Paris from French Polynesia during May 68. Her earliest thinking was formed in the collective action of students and workers as well as the sexual and intellectual liberation movement happening in France at that time.

She graduated from

HEC Jeunes Filles in 1973.[3]

Drawn to the radicalism of the west coast, she travelled to the United States to complete her master's degree at Washington State University. Her doctorate in economics was from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Pujol became a professor of Women's Studies at the University of Manitoba in 1981 and then as associate professor at the University of Victoria, where she worked from 1990 until her death.[2]

Academic life

Pujol's scholarship documented the role of women in economics. Her doctoral dissertation at Simon Fraser University formed the basis of her book, Feminism and Anti-Feminism in Early Economic Thought. She investigated women's economic roles in what she termed the "malestream" of British classical political economy and early neoclassical economics.[4]

Writing on the "feminist economic thought of Harriet Taylor (1807–58)" in 1995, Pujol established the "materialist analysis that distinguishes Taylor from Mill's idealist and male-centred position." Pujol also extended the canon of past economic thought, reviving feminist analytical contributions on economic inequality by Taylor, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Eleanor Rathbone, and William Smart.[4]

In addition to pioneering the

pay equity in Canada for the University of Manitoba. Pujol also completed a bibliography of 19th-century writings by women economists, published in English posthumously.[8]

Personal life

While teaching in Manitoba (1981–1988), she was active in the

lesbian studies course. Her students and friends organized the first annual Lesbian Walk in response to homophobia experienced by Pujol and the Women's Studies Department at the University of Victoria
.

Death

Pujol was diagnosed with

liver metastasis was discovered. Pujol died on 2 August 1997, at home beside her partner, Brook Holdack, five months after her diagnosis.[9]
Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal, published a special issue, "Sexual Economics," in 1999, on feminist economic perspectives, to celebrate the life and work of Pujol. The issue was edited by her colleague, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, at the Department of Women's Studies of Simon Fraser University.

Published works

Books

Book chapters

Journals and journal articles

Lectures

Pujol participated in the

Thoemmes Continuum.[8]

A contributor to Out of the Margin: Feminist Perspectives on Economic Theory,[10] Pujol presented her chapter work at the 1996 International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)[5] conference in Washington, D.C.

In 1995, Pujol presented "Is This Really Economics? Using Qualitative Research Methods in Feminist Economic Research," to the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)[5] conference in Tours, France.

References

  1. ISBN 1-85278-456-3
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  2. ^ a b Verardi, Donna (1992). Personal notes and conversations with Dr. Michèle A. Pujol (Beguine Foundation, Canada).
  3. ^ "Les Femmes au cœur de la stratégie de l'entreprise". Newletter — Monde des grandes écoles et université. 24 November 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-1-85278-964-0
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  5. ^ a b c d Switala, Kristen (1999). "Feminist Economics". Collaboratory for Digital Discourse and Culture @ Virginia Tech. Archived from the original on 4 October 1999. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  6. ^ Dimand, Robert (1998).
  7. ISSN 1354-5701
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  8. ^
    ISBN 978-0-203-48206-3
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  9. ^ "Michele Pujol Bursary in Women's Studies". University of Victoria. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  10. ISBN 978-0-203-98374-4
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General references
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