I analyze the socialization to Feminism and Europe within the European Women Lobby (EWL), the largest umbrella organization of women’s associations in the EU.
I will define the main consequences of such activist and professional carrier at the EWL thanks to semi-structured interviews and biographical studies of 10 EWL members: 2 EWL presidents, 5 employees of the EWL’s secretary and 3 employees of the French and Belgian EWL national coordinations.
I will show this carrier has effects on these members’ everyday life and practices: way to live motherhood and couple with feminist “habitus”, use of social networks that slims professional/private boundaries, re-definition of past relationship through the feminist scheme. Then I will explain how it changes their relations to political activism (as most of the members are engaged in politics) and feminist activism: they get involved in or create new women’s associations based on their professional specialized topics and networks.
