Anne Berger and Laurent Dubreuil discuss aspects of the recent controversies about gender in France, from mariage pour tous to the French #MeToo and “inclusive writing.”
In this episode, Anne Berger is Laurent Dubreuil’s guest. Far from being only a concern for the “ivory tower,” practices and theories of gender are being hotly debated in the French-speaking public sphere—from the mariage pour tous and manif pour tous movements to the translation of #MeToo into #BalanceTonPorc to the ongoing dispute about the spelling and orthography of the French language in relation to “inclusive writing” (écriture inclusive).Together, and with a in a trans-Atlantic viewpoint, Berger and Dubreuil consider these topics as well as the recent rise of gender studies in French Academia.
Dr. Anne Berger is a Professor Emerita of French Literature and Gender Studies at the Université Paris-8 as well as an Adjunct Professor of French at Cornell.