Caroline Dayer

Caroline Dayer (born December 30, 1978) is a Swiss feminist researcher, educator and writer specializing in gender studies. She is known for her engagement in LGBT rights and makes regular interventions as an expert in the media in Switzerland on issues like homophobia, sexism and street harassment.

Caroline Dayer
Born	(1978-12-30) December 30, 1978 (age 44)
Occupation	Gender studies
Academic work
Discipline	Sociology
Sub-discipline	Gender and science Women's studies
Institutions	Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis
Notable works	Le pouvoir de l'injure

Education

Caroline Dayer was born on December 30, 1978, in Sion. Her father was a civil engineering contractor and her mother secretary. Dayer was brought up in Hérémence with her older brother. She received an egalitarian education with her brother and played soccer in league B, with FC Vétroz.^[1][2] She had her first romantic encounter with a woman at the age of 17, but did not confide in her mother on the subject until five years later.^[1] She wrote a dissertation, De l'injure à la gay pride, quelle formation et construction de sens? which enabled her to obtain a degree in educational sciences. She also holds a diploma in general studies in humanities and social sciences, which she obtained from the University of Paris VIII in 2004, and a certificate from the École doctorale lémanique in gender studies in 2008. In 2009, after the sudden death of her father at the beginning of the year,^[1] she submitted a study for her PhD on the issues of discrimination and equality.^[3]

Dayer continued her training by completing a scientific residency at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris in 2012, on the design of training and public policies. In 2016, she undertook a training in management.^[4]

 

Caroline Dayer at the Festival Les Créatives in Geneva, 2018.

Career

Dayer taught for 13 years at the University of Geneva,^[5] before becoming an expert in the prevention of violence and discrimination for the canton of Geneva.^[6] In 2020, she was appointed expert on homophobia and transphobia in educational institutions at the General Secretariat of the Department of Education, Youth and Culture of the Canton of Vaud.^{[1][7][8][9][10][11][12]}

In 2017 Dayer published the book Le pouvoir de l'injure analyzing various factors behind the emergence of insults, particularly homophobic ones : gender transgression, the absence of adherence and conformity to majority norms and relational and group dynamics that lead to increased discrimination.^[13][14]

In 2020, Dayer was appointed expert on homophobia and transphobia in educational institutions at the General Secretariat of the Department of Education, Youth and Culture of the Canton of Vaud.^{[1][7][8][9][10]}

 

Présentation of Caroline Dayer's book Le pouvoir de l'injure in Sion, 2017.

Selected works

• Construction et transformation d'une posture de recherche: examen critique de la pensée classificatoire, Saarbrücken, 2010.
• Sous les pavés, le genre : hacker le sexisme, La Tour d'Aigue, 2014.^[15]
• with Maryvonne Charmillot et Marie-Noëlle Schürmans, La restitution des savoirs: un impensé des sciences sociales ? Paris, 2014.
• avec Maryvonne Charmillot et Marie-Noëlle Schürmans, Connaissance et émancipation : dualisme, tensions, politique, Paris, 2014.
• Le pouvoir de l'injure: guide de prévention des violences et des discriminations, La Tour d'Aigues, 2017.^[16][17]

References

1. "Portrait de Caroline Dayer – La liberté d'être soi, dans les prés et les préaux". 24 heures (in French). 7 April 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
2. "Trois générations de féministes à l'heure de #MeToo". Le Temps (in French). 2018-03-08. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
3. "Caroline Dayer, l'experte arc-en-ciel". Le Courrier (in French). 2016-10-11. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
4. "Caroline Dayer: "Trop souvent en Suisse, actes et propos sexistes sont banalisés et minimisés"". Le Temps (in French). 2016-10-21. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
5. "Caroline DAYER - Approche compréhensive des représentations et de l action - UNIGE". archive.wikiwix.com (in French). Retrieved 2022-04-03.
6. "Quand les femmes prennent le pouvoir". avisdexperts.ch. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
7. (in French). Archived from the original on 2021-01-20. Retrieved 2022-04-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
8. "Etude dans les écoles suisses – Un noir tableau de l'homophobie, décomplexée et au quotidien". 20 minutes (in French). 2022-03-30. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
9. "Canton de Vaud: des initiatives pour une école arc-en-ciel". Femina (in Swiss French). Retrieved 2022-04-03.
10. "Caroline Dayer, à la bonne (et juste) école contre les discriminations". Le Temps (in French). 2021-01-21. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
11. "[INTERVIEW] Caroline Dayer, chargée de lutte contre l'homophobie et la transphobie à 40% à Dialogai". dialogai (in French). 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
12. "Lausanne veut agir contre le phénomène du harcèlement de rue". rts.ch (in French). 2016-12-19. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
13. César-Franquet, Lætitia (2019). "Dayer C. (2017), Le pouvoir de l'injure, guide de prévention des violences et des discriminations, éditions de l'Aube". Les cahiers de la LCD. 2019/2 no 10 (2): 125–129. doi:10.3917/clcd.010.0125. S2CID 213765503.
14. "Un atelier contre l'homophobie suscite la polémique en Valais". rts.ch (in French). 2016-04-20. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
15. "Le genre n'est pas une théorie". Site de l'emiliE (in French). 3 March 2014. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
16. "Ça veut dire non / Ville de Genève". www.caveutdirenon.ch (in French). Retrieved 2022-04-03.
17. "Le pouvoir de l'injure". www.unige.ch (in French). 2007-04-20. Retrieved 2022-04-03.