title: [The new vestals (reflections on the place of women and feminist action in universities).].
abstract: The author investigates the place of women as professors in a university setting, most importantly when their activity is colored by a feminist ideology. At the heart of the societal crisis of the eighties, university women, constituting only 15% of the professoral body of the universities in Quebec, risk seeing their number reduced. The fact that women are in a minority has consequences derived from the impossibility of their being as present to exercise their influence as their male counterparts and from the difficulty of expressing feminine values in a tradition-nally male institution. The author analyses the effect of this situation on education and feminine or non-sexist research, on teaching, on the female students and the female professors themselves as well as on their mental and physical health. She proposes three avenues of solution: vigilance, search for new models and solidarity.
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authors.lastname: Landry