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Claude Habib: "The eternal revival of feminism, progress and vindictiveness"

2021-03-18T19:04:52.479Z


TRIBUNE - While the West has never been so picky about equality between men and women, feminists ignore these improvements and adopt an aggressive and outrageous tone, believes the novelist and essayist.


Professor Emeritus of Literature at the New Sorbonne University and a specialist in the 18th century, Claude Habib is the author of a dozen books including, first and foremost, a highly regarded essay, “

Galanterie française

” (Gallimard, 2006) .

Last book published: “

How can we be tolerant?

»(Desclée de Brouwer, 2019).

Urbi et orbi, the day of March 8 gave rise to the recitation of feminist doctrine.

This has hardly changed since the 1970s: the fate of women in the world is terrible, they suffer everywhere from a violent or sweet oppression, but always systemic.

Their situation is cruel in countries where so-called honor crimes are rife, forced marriage and relegation to the home, not to mention excision or stoning.

To read also: Thérèse Hargot: "For a feminism of reconciliation with men"

But we would be mistaken to believe it enviable in the West, we are assured.

The free choice of spouse, the availability of contraception and even abortion have become commonplace.

Now they go without saying, like water and gas

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Source: lefigaro

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