Sensual airport or telephone waiting voice;
obedient voice of your chatbot;
sexy voice of the famous actress or… the rattle of your unbearable neighbor on the train: what if the voice of women carried within it the entire gallery of gender stereotypes?
Better: what if women's voices were a blind spot of sexism?
This is the thesis of Aline Jalliet’s fascinating feminist essay,
Une voix à soi*.
A former opera singer and singing teacher, she became a voice coach.
She supports actresses, politicians and decision-makers to help them “find their voice”.
In her book, she invites us to “question our auditory stereotypes, and to deconstruct this internalized voice of women – the one that censors itself, judges itself, loses itself, sabotages itself, disguises itself, or remains silent.”
At a time when, thanks to MeToo, women's voices are being reawakened, the question of their voice takes on a powerfully political significance.
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