Corinne Chaponnière

Corinne Chaponnière
Born	3 March 1954 Montreal, Quebec
Nationality	Swiss and Canadian
Occupation	journalist, writer, women's rights activist
Notable work	Le mystère féminin, La Mixité: des hommes et des femmes féminin ,Vingt siècles de déni de sens, Henry Dunand, la croix d'un homme, Les quatre coups de la nuit de cristal

Corinne Chaponnière (born 3 March 1954) is a Swiss-Canadian writer and journalist.^[1]

Biography

Corinne Chaponnière was born on 3 March 1954 and she spent her child time in Montreal, Canada and later in Geneva, Switzerland, where she studied. In 1978, she graduated in politics and literature. She also obtained a doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1988. Her thesis title was "The feminine mystery, a 20th century Long Denial of Meaning".

She started her career as a freelance journalist for the Swiss newspaper La Suisse before becoming the chief editor of the feminist periodical "Femmes Suisses" later renamed L'émiliE.^[2] L'émiliE is the oldest European feminist newspaper founded by Emilie Gourd in 1912 under the name 'Le Mouvement Féministe'. After a short period writing for the judicial column of the Journal de Genève, she joined the Swiss francophone television company Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR). Between 1983 and 1993, she was a reporter for the TV shows Tell Quel.^[3] Temps présent, and Viva. She served as a TSR correspondent between 1993 et 1997 in Brussels, Belgium in charge of European issues. In 2005, she published a history of (gender) mixité with her sister Martine Chaponnière.^[4][5]

Between 2005 and 2009, after writing a film script with Claude Goretta,^[6] on the life of Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross (the film was not made), she published a biography of the humanist in 2010 ^[7][8] One of her essays published in 2015 portrays the murder of Ernst vom Rath, which served as an excuse for the Nazis to start the pogroms against the Jews known as Kristallnacht. She confronts the different versions to explain the murderer Herschel Grynszpan's motives.

She sits on the board of the Société de Lecture of Geneva, an association which was founded in 1818 to provide ressources not offered by the public library system and to offer a place of intellectual exchanges. The SDl organises conferences and talks with notorious authors and is an active partner of the local literature scene.^[9]

Selected works

• Chaponnière, Corinne (1989). Le mystère féminin, Vingt siècles de déni de sens. Olivier Orban. ISBN 978-2855655000.
• Chaponnière, Corinne (2005). La Mixité: des hommes et des femmes féminin. Folio (Gallimard). ISBN 978-2884749084.
• Chaponnière, Corinne (2010). Henry Dunand, la croix d'un homme. Editions Perrin. ISBN 978-2262031039.
• Chaponnière, Corinne (2015). Les quatre coups de la nuit de cristal. Albin Michel. ISBN 978-2226314901.

References

1. "Corinne Chaponnière" (in French). Éditions Albin Michel. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
2. Kirschman, Stefania. "Interview: Simone Chappuis-Bischopf". l'émiliE. l'émiliE. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
3. (French) "Recherche Speakerine". Retrieved April 4, 2016.
4. Reilly & Scriver 2013, p. 260.
5. (French) Miot, Auria (2006). "Des poches de non-mixité peuvent continuer à exister, à condition qu'elles se fondent sur une volonté d'avancer". l'émiliE (94): 20. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
6. (French) Loewer, Matthieu (September 2007). "Claude Goretta, cinéaste sans visa" (PDF). Revue Suisse des professionnels du cinéma et de laudiovisuel (383): 26. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
7. "La part d'ombre du sauveur; Corinne Chaponnière publie une biographie d'Henry Dunant, dévoilant la complexe figure du fondateur de la Croix-Rouge". Le Temps (in French). January 30, 2010.
8. Berger, Olivier (November 15, 2011). "Corinne Chaponnière, Henry Dunant, la croix d’un homme". Revue historique des armées (in French) (265).
9. "Société de lecture - historique". Société de Lecture. Retrieved April 5, 2016.

Bibliography

• Reilly, Niamh; Scriver, Stacey (26 November 2013). Religion, Gender, and the Public Sphere. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-01425-4.