ROSE-MARIE LAGRAVE was born in 1944 in Paris. She became a licensed sociologist in 1969 and defended her graduate thesis in 1979, which was published the following year by Actes Sud as Le village romanesque. In 1982 she attended the seminars of Claude Grignon and Jean-Claude Passeron on popular culture, including one titled “Women, Feminism and Research.” In 1987 or ’88 she met Pierre Bourdieu at the College de France. She contributed to the publication of many books and articles related to feminism, utopia, Communism in Eastern Europe and other topics. She is the author of Voyage aux pays d'une utopie déchue Paidoyer pour l’Europe centrale (1998) and Se ressaisir. Enquête autobiographique d’une transfuge de classe féministe (2021).
