Michèle Pujol, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Michèle Pujol

French feminist economist

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1951

Place of Birth: Madaoua, Niger

Date of Death: 02-Aug-1997

Profession: economist, philosopher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Michèle Pujol (French pronunciation: ?[mi??l]), born in Madaoua, Niger (20 April 1951 – 2 August 1997), was a French intellectual, feminist, economist, scholar and human rights activist who lived in British Columbia, Canada.
She was an assistant professor at the University of Victoria Department of Women's Studies and held the chair at the University of Manitoba.
She was a significant feminist economic scholar and an advocate of social justice. Pujol wrote essays, histories, and on socio-economic issues affecting women, as well as a bibliography in several volumes on women's contributions to economics.
She was known for teaching and writing, in particular a critical studies of economics, and a book, Feminism and Anti-Feminism in Early Economic Thought.
Her academic writing and teaching have been widely influential.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Pujol was associated with lesbian-feminism, a movement from which she never distanced herself.She was a committed and productive scholar who challenged accepted views about the past and the methodologies of economics.