Huguette Dagenais (born 1943) is a French-Canadian anthropologist who until her retirement headed the feminist studies program at Université Laval in Quebec City.
[1][2][3] Born in Montreal in 1943, Huguette Dagenais studied athropology at the Université de Montréal with a bachelor's degree in 1968 and a master's in 1969.
[4] In parallel with her role as an academic at the Université Laval, Dagenais carried out extensive research into social gender relationships, feminist analyses and related international developments.
This was followed from 1999 to 2004 by her coordination of a Canadian International Development Research Centre project researching social gender relationships and sustainable development in Vietnam,[4] In 2002, Dagenais commented that the inclusion of women's studies in Quebec universities presented major difficulties in the late 20th century although the situation had improved in the new millennium.
[3] In 1986, Dagenais co-founded and became the first coordinator of the multidiciplinaary feminist research group "Groupe de recherche multidisciplinaire féministe" (GREMF) and in 1986 she helped to establish the international journal Recherches féministes which she edited until 1997.