Louise Vandelac

Louise Vandelac is a sociologist and professor at UQAM. Over the years, she has been actively involved in several of the most complex and controversial public interest issues and she appears frequently in media as an expert witness. Her research focuses specifically on women's work, but she is as well involved in the privatization of water in Quebec. In 1972, she published with Jean-Robert Sansfaçon Perspectives Jeunesse/Le programme cool d'un gouvernement too much, a critical analysis of federal youth policies and community programs. In 1974, she co-founded with four other women the first francophone women's health center in Montreal, which, along with the Éditions du Remue Ménage, the Théâtre des cuisines and the Comité de lutte pour l'avortement, formed the Intergroupe féministe. Published in 1988, her doctoral thesis in sociology entitled Infertility and sterility: the alibi of reproductive technologies will inform her later research on the ethical problems of new reproductive technologies. After two stays in Italy, where she co-directed the video, À notre santé, the "Cahiers du GRIF" in Belgium asked her to coordinate, in 1978, a special issue on Italian feminism which resulted in a book based on testimonies: L'Italie au féminisme.