Charity and Gender in Late XIXth and Early XXth Centuries France

CORINNE M. BELLIARD holds a PhD in History and Civilization from the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris. She worked four years as a lecturer at the University François Rabelais in Tours, then as an Associate Professor at the Catholic University, Paris. During this time, she continued her lecturing at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and University Cergy-Pontoise. She currently lectures at University Paris East. She is involved in various feminist associations. In Britain, she is a member of Women's History Network. In France, she belongs to Mnemosyne, which promotes the history of women and gender, an association affiliated to the International Federation for Research in Women's History. She is also a member of two history societies, Feminist Archives, based in Angers and Achieving Equality for Women and Men in Paris.