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28/05/2018

BBC Radio 4 - Analysis, #metoo, moi non plus

Do French women really think differently about sexual harassment?

Catherine Guilyardi asks if French women really think differently about sexual harassment.

Do French women really think differently about sexual harassment - and if so, does feminism have national borders? 

Catherine Deneuve was one of 100 prominent women who signed an open letter to Le Monde critiquing the #metoo movement. 

"We believe that the freedom to say yes to a sexual proposition cannot exist without the freedom to pester," they wrote. 

Have the French mastered a more sophisticated approach to relations between men and women, based around seduction - or is this a myth that sustains male power? 

Parisian journalist Catherine Guilyardi investigates.

Producer: Estelle Doyle

Contributors: 

Claude Habib - historian and author of "Galanterie francaise"

Elaine Sciolino - ex New York Times Paris bureau chief and author of "La Seduction" and "Rue des Martyrs"

Eric Fassin - professor of sociology, Paris-8 University

Sylvie Kauffman - editorial director and columnist at Le Monde 

Sandra Muller - journalist and founder of #balancetonporc

Cécile Fara and Julie Marangé - feminist activists, organisers of the Street Art and Feminism tour in Paris 

Fatima El Ouasdi - feminist activist and founder of Politiqu'elles

Peggy Sastre - philosopher of science and author of "Male Domination Doesn't Exist".

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