Working conditions within French feminist organizations: Acknowledging and understanding the paradoxes.

Abstract

This master thesis engages with the topic of the working conditions within French feminist organizations. The aim is to acknowledge the existing poor working conditions, material and immaterial, in order to understand them through literature and my own research. The latter consists of eight in-depth interviews with people working in this field. Whether they are intern or regular employee, they provide us with knowledge of their lived experiences. Those strongly contrast with what one could expect from a field related to feminism. This thesis intends to overcome simple answers, and scrutinizes instead social, economic and historical concepts such as power relations, commitment, professionalization and feminist divergence on the topic of work. It delivers the account of a multifaceted situation, in which interpersonal relations are taken into bigger scale phenomena.