Metropolitics

A Place for Women

2025-01-21T06:00:00Z

For over 40 years, a feminist association called Apiaf, based in Toulouse in southwestern France, has been working with female victims of domestic violence. In this interview, members of the association talk about the central role of non-mixity in accommodating and assisting these women, thus guaranteeing a space of protection and emancipation.
Interview conducted by Pauline Delage.
Apiaf (Association pour l'Initiative Autonome des Femmes; "Association for Women's Autonomous Initiative") is

- Interviews / violence, women, non-mixity, associations, gender, feminism, activism

Giving Voice to Stammerers

Abigail Bourguignon & translated by Oliver Waine — 2024-03-19T06:00:00Z

By meeting in self-help groups, far from the usual stigmas, people with stammers are able to talk together. This kind of non-mixity fosters a distancing from the norms of good speech, but it does not eradicate language inequalities between people who stammer.
From the beginning of the 20th century, patient movements have challenged the social control exercised by the medical establishment (Barbot 2002; Pinell and Broqua 2002). Self-help and talk groups, developed in the United States in the

- Essays / handicap, stigmate, disabilities, language, non-mixity, stigma, stigmatization, health

Female Factory Strikes: Emancipatory Non-Mixity?

Ève Meuret-Campfort & translated by Oliver Waine — 2024-01-26T08:14:00Z

The division of industrial labor often places women workers in all-female factories and low-skilled jobs. Ève Meuret-Campfort examines how periods of strike action lead—or do not lead—these workers to politicize and claim this de facto segregation as an instrument of emancipation.
In the industrial working world, women workers often find themselves in de facto non-mixed situations, concentrated in highly feminized employment sectors such as clothing (Maruani and Meron 2012). As a result of

- From the Field / workers, non-mixity, factories, mobilization, women, manual workers, feminism, politicization

Feminist Non-Mixity: For Women or Against Men?

Alban Jacquemart & translated by Oliver Waine — 2023-10-10T05:00:00Z

For women, the choice to gather together serves a variety of objectives within feminist mobilizations. Looking back at the history and significance of these militant practices helps to counteract preconceptions associated with non-mixity.
“It is wrong to claim that non-mixity does not fundamentally impregnate the vision of the world and society of those who turn to this notion, and that it cannot encourage the temptation of withdrawal into a given community. How can we believe that there is

- Essays / feminism, women, history, activism, non-mixity

Girls-Only Sport

Antoine Bréau & translated by Oliver Waine — 2023-05-26T05:00:00Z

Against a backdrop of gender inequalities at school, an experiment in the field of physical education shows that sports classes in single-sex groups allows students room to maneuver in relation to gender norms, albeit without completely eliminating them.
Internationally, in the face of continuing gender inequalities in schools, co-education in schools is once again being debated. In various countries (Canada, South Korea, Australia, United States), the return of single-sex schools is

- From the Field / Switzerland, sport, inequalities, gender segregation, gender, youth, non-mixity, school

Women Farmers Doing It for Themselves? The Ambiguous Consequences of Non-Mixed Engagement

Clémentine Comer & translated by Oliver Waine — 2022-11-01T06:00:00Z

In the farming world, many women's groups defend the cause of women farmers. Clémentine Comer analyzes the ambivalences of these single-gender spaces, from the perpetuation of traditional visions of male and female roles to the questioning of social inequalities.
In France, organizations devoted to the specific mobilization of women in agriculture – established in the wake of the Catholic young farmers' movement and the widespread teaching of domestic science – took on a new form in the

- From the Field / agriculture, feminism, farming, non-mixity, women