Join us for an evening with journalist Maïa Mazaurette to celebrate the publication of her newest books, Le Sexe selon Maïa (Éditions de la Martinière) and Sortir du trou, lever la tête (Éditions Anne Carrière). Le Sexe selon Maïa is inspired by Mazaurette’s eponymous popular sex column in Le Monde, which explores questions of contemporary sexuality and the body’s place in society.…
Sex, Love, and Letters is the first study of a virtually unexplored cache of letters to Simone de Beauvoir, the brilliant, magnetic, and polarizing French feminist and philosopher from ordinary women and men around the world. This author-reader bond was fraught with misunderstanding, thwarted desire, and illusions, but also, Judith Coffin argues, emphatically reciprocal.
Since the scandal surrounding Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest in New York City in 2011, several momentous affairs have shaken longstanding French taboos around sexual harassment: Vanessa Springora’s memoir about her damaging relationship as a 14-year-old with writer Gabriel Matzneff, Adèle Haenel’s accusation against film-director Christophe Ruggia of sexually harassing her when she was in her early teens, and very recently, Camille…