Yolande Cohen
Yolande Cohen (born 1950) is a Moroccan-born Canadian historian and professor of contemporary history whose research focuses upon History of Youth and the History of Women. A Moroccan Sephardi, she also focuses on the History of Moroccan Jews.[1][2] In the 1990s, Cohen was a politician, the initial leader of the Coalition Démocratique–Montréal Écologique municipal political party and its candidate for mayor in the 1994 municipal election. Cohen is a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada. Her awards include Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour and Knight of the National Order of Québec.
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| Discipline | Historian |
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Early life and education edit
Yolande Cohen was born in Morocco, 1950.[3] She has younger brothers.[4] She studied in Paris in 1968, then immigrated to Quebec.
Career edit
Cohen was a lecturer in Rimouski, Quebec, in 1976.[4] In the same year, she worked as a history teacher at the Université du Québec in Montreal. She is involved in the founding of "Vélo Québec, du Regroupement des femmes du Québec et de Montréal écologique".[5] Cohen has also taught at Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of California, Los Angeles, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and the Paris Nanterre University.[2]
She is the author of several academic works, including Les jeunes, le Socialisme et la guerre : Histoire des Mouvements de jeunesse en France; Femmes de parole. L’Histoire des Cercles de fermières du Québec; and Femmes philanthropes : Catholiques, Protestantes et Juives dans les Organisations caritatives au Québec.[2] Since its creation in February 2012, Cohen also occasionally writes for HuffPost, Quebec edition, publishing blog posts on various subjects.[6]
In 1994, Coalition démocratique de Montréal merged with Montréal Écologique to become the Coalition Démocratique–Montréal Écologique, a municipal political party that existed till 1998. Cohen was its initial leader and its candidate for mayor in the 1994 municipal election.[7][4] She was also a candidate for city council in the 1998 Montreal municipal election.
Awards and honours edit
- 2011, Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour[2]
- Fellow, Royal Society of Canada.[8] In 2012, she was elected President of the Academy of Arts, Letters and Human Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada.[2]
- 2013, Finalist, Women of the Year Competition, organized by the organization Arab Women's Space, in two categories: (a) art and culture, and (b) teaching and research[2]
- 2017, Knight of the National Order of Québec[5]
Selected works edit
- Les Mouvements de jeunesse socialiste en France : espoirs et échecs, 1880-1905, 1978
- Femmes et politique, 1981
- Les thèses universitaires québécoises sur les femmes, 1921-1981, 1983
- Les jeunes, le socialisme et la guerre : histoire des mouvements de jeunesse en France 1989
- Encrages féministes : un moment de réflexion dans la recherche féministe, 1989
- Role of women's movements in enlarging citizenship in Québec, 1997
- Féminismes et identités nationales : les processus d'intégration des femmes au politique, 1998
- Femmes de parole : l'histoire des Cercles de fermières du Québec, 1915-1990, 1990
- Femmes philanthropes : Catholiques, Protestantes et Juives dans les Organisations caritatives au Québec, 2000
- Religion et politique dans les sociétés contemporaines, 2006
- Identités sépharades et modernité, 2007
- Le rôle des mouvements de femmes dans l'élargissement de la citoyenneté au Québec, 2012
- Les Sépharades du Québec : parcours d'éxils nord-africains, 2017
References edit
- ^ "Yolande Cohen". www.ordre-national.gouv.qc.ca. Ordre national du Québec. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f Levy, Elias (30 November 2018). "Deux Sépharades honorées par les Femmes Arabes". The Canadian Jewish News (in French). Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ "54160125 - Cohen, Yolande, 1950-..." viaf.org. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ a b c Petrowski, Nathalie (1 November 1994). "Une belle intellectuelle". numerique.banq.qc.ca (in French). La Presse. Retrieved 31 March 2022 – via BAnQ numérique.
- ^ a b "Ordre national du Québec: Yolande Cohen et Louise Nadeau honorées". Actualités UQAM (in French). UQAM. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ "Yolande Cohen". archive.wikiwix.com. HuffPost. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ "Élection tenue le 6 novembre 1994" (PDF) (in French). Ville. Montréal. 1994. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ "Professeurs réguliers". Département d'histoire (in Canadian French). Département d'histoire - UQAM. Retrieved 31 March 2022.