Valentine Berthet

Valentine Berthet is a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for European Studies at the University of Helsinki. She works on the EUGenDem project, a major European Research Council funded scientific research project which provides a systematic analysis of the gendered policies and practices of the political groups in the European Parliament.

The project

Title: EUGenDem ‘Gender, party politics and democracy in Europe: A study of the European Parliament’s party groups.’

Keywords: European Parliament, political groups, gendered policies and practices, gendered violence, feminism, qualitative methodologies.

Hosting institution: Sciences Po, Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics

Selection of publications

Kantola, J., Elomäki, A., Gaweda, B., Miller, C., Ahrens, P., & Berthet, V. (2023). “It’s Like Shouting to a Brick Wall”: Normative Whiteness and Racism in the European Parliament. American Political Science Review, 117(1), 184-199.

Berthet, V. (2022). United in Crisis: Abortion Politics in the European Parliament and Political Groups' Disputes over EU Values. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 60(6), 1797-1814.

Elomäki, A., Gaweda, B., & Berthet, V. (2022). Democratic Practices and Political Dynamics of Intra-Group Policy Formation in the European Parliament. In European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times (pp. 73-96). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Berthet, V. (2022). Norm under fire: support for and opposition to the European Union’s ratification of the Istanbul Convention in the European Parliament. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 24(5), 675-698.

Berthet, V., & Kantola, J. (2021). Gender, violence, and political institutions: struggles over sexual harassment in the European Parliament. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 28(1), 143-167