Micheline Dumont

Micheline Dumont (born 1935) is a Canadian historian, lecturer and professor. Her name also appears as Dumont-Johnson. She is a specialist in the history of women in Quebec. She is particularly known as the co-author, with Marie Lavigne, Jennifer Stoddart, and Michèle Stanton, of , the first synthesis on the subject. Having taught at the Université de Sherbrooke since 1970, Dumont retired in 2000 with the title of professor emeritus.

Early life and education She was born in 1935 in Verdun, Quebec, a neighbourhood in Montreal. As a young woman, she studied with the Sisters of Saint Anne in Vaudreuil and Lachine. A literature graduate from the Université de Montréal, she continued in history at Université Laval. she has published several historical works and articles on the status of women in contemporary times in New France. Her specialization in women's history also led her to perfect her research on women teachers and nuns in Quebec. She submitted a thesis on Quebec women and the constitutional future to the Bélanger-Campeau Commission.

She is regularly invited to various media outlets for questions concerning women's history. Dumont was a commentator for the series by Jacques Lacoursière and Gilles Carle, as well as for the documentary by Jacques Godbout and the show L'histoire à la une by Claude Charron. In addition, Dumont has collaborated with Nadia Fahmy-Eid and the Clio Collective. Dumont retired in 1999 and received the title of professor emeritus in 2000. The Micheline-Dumont fund is held by the University of Sherbrooke and contains documents relating to her career.

Awards and honours 1993 - Member, Royal Society of Canada 2002 - Prix pour l'étude du genre of the Royal Society of Canada 2002 - Aequitas Prize for founders of the PÉPINES group 2004 - Literary Prize of the City of Sherbrooke, for the "Essays" category 2009 - Juge-Lemay Literary Prize 2010 - City of Sherbrooke Book Prize 2012 - Prix Idola Saint-Jean 2014 - Sherbrooke Historical Society Tribune Prize 2015 - Gérard-Parizeau Prize from HEC Montréal 2017 - Governor General's Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case 2018 - Member, Order of Canada 2019 - Knight, National Order of Quebec 2023 - Medal, National Assembly of Quebec

Selected works Laure Conan, Choix de textes choisis et présentés, 1960 Apôtres ou Agitateurs. La France Missionnaire en Acadie, 1970 Tradition culturelle et histoire politique de la femme au Canada ; three essays, 1971 L'Histoire apprivoisée, 1979 Histoire des femmes au Québec depuis quatre siècles, 1982 (with Clio Collective) Maîtresses de maison, maîtresses d'école. Femmes, Familles et Éducation dans l'histoire du Québec, 1983 (with Nadia Fahmy-Eid) Le mouvement des femmes, hier et aujourd'hui, 1986 Les Couventines. L'Éducation des filles au Québec dans les congrégations religieuses enseignantes, 1840-1960, 1986 (with Nadia Fahmy-Eid) Quebec Women: A History, 1987 (with Clio Collective) Histoire des femmes au Québec depuis quatre siècles, 1992 (with Clio Collective): (Second edition, reviewed, corrected and expanded) Les religieuses sont-elles féministes?, 1995 Découvrir la mémoire des femmes : une historienne face à l'histoire des femmes, 2001 La pensée féministe au Québec : anthologie, 1900-1985, 2003 (with Louise Toupin) Brève histoire des institutrices au Québec de la Nouvelle-France à nos jours, 2004, (with Andrée Dufour) Le féminisme québécois raconté à Camille (2008) Feminism à la Québécoise (2012) Pas d'histoire, les femmes!:réflexions d'une historienne indignée (2013) De si longues racines. L’histoire d’une historienne (2022) (autobiography)

Signed prefaces Augustine Prévost, L'éducation, hier et aujourd'hui, 1850-1985, 1986 Huguette O'Neil, Yvette Rousseau : la réussite d'une vie, 2004 Mylène Bigaouette et Marie-Eve Surprenant (dir.), Les femmes changent la lutte : au cœur du printemps québécois, 2013 Daniel Raunet, Monique Bégin : entretiens, 2016