"Françoise Héritier, the thought of difference"
A great document of Françoise Héritier, I urge you to watch it, was released on January 16 last arte, perhaps this is the last day he will be still possible to see, I do not know ... TV was his last broadcast on January 18, then maybe you'll until 25 the next? ...
Do not miss!
Beyond ethnologist is a moving documentary, strapping on a life of woman, a woman engaged in research in the fight for gender equality, among patients AIDS, women prison, prostitutes.
Moments of grace , humanity when she sings duet with the professor who follows "a little Poppy", when it offers pictures of Marc Augé , her former husband, the mutual respect they bear each other, beyond separation.
The evocations of age, illness and handicap which transforms the body, that of having to separate from a place invested with memories, of time passing and fighting enthusiasms that persist.
The story of a life, a singular term, the importance of meetings, that of Claude Levi-Strauss : a lesson in life, feminism and hope.
See here:
Footprints - Francoise Heritier
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Participate in civic life involves choices, obligations - often as much profit human, social, political, intelligent. Ideally, when kerchief visited a town hall for the ritual ceremony wishes for new year, she met Friday other human-es , social networks: for example, leaders of associations of all kinds, cultural figures like a poet cracked in short she spent a good evening. What was, in absolute terms, far better choice to stay in front of his TV.
If she had thrown even if that an eye on Telerama , the choice would have been an ordeal. Footprints in the show, Annick Cojean (promise already beautiful) proposed at 20h (35 course) a documentary on Françoise Héritier . Wonders missed!
It took this Sunday morning to fall on a replay, and the site of France 5 can see the video during the coming week: to consume without moderation!
"Whoever listens to a witness is already," said Annick Cojean . It is therefore important not to miss, and not to forget such a document.
It shows a great figure of this century past "girl" chosen by Claude Levi-Strauss and its successor, with all the titles held by others (most often male): ethnologist, anthropologist, professor emeritus at College de France ( where she was the only woman, the second). The document clearly refers to his career and research areas. But it looks like "an anthropologist in the city" and a woman. And she said, and shows the originality - that one rarely sees men with scientists at this level. All of his work is related to what might appear anecdotally in a daily life.
How not to keep our commitments such as sentences F. Héritier pronounce on purpose?
"Knowledge makes skeptical and makes critical"
"What the human mind has created the human mind can replace"
To use it as encouragement to fight intellectual primitiveness and brutality of simplistic political statements of our time!
That a woman like many women her age, affected by the disease, who agrees to show changed physically, on his cane, trying to empty an old house of his memories in boxes. Who knows? ... But a woman peeling vegetables in front of a camera, even unscientific fee, it's rare! Finally, love song, we see her on a bench with her physician complicity, evoking Henri Salvador and lyrics to "your father is not your father ...", not incongruous in ethnology.
If personalities engaged in the life of the city with their experience and reputation, it is usually to know. But we discover, 20 years later, that F. Heir had been appointed Chair of the National Council of AIDS created by F. Mitterrand. Far from a purely formal, this function has enabled the feminist anthropologist investigate and act.
The balance that it draws with historian Michelle Perrot is edifying: the CNS got (among others) that the prison medicine, under the Ministry of Interior or attached to Health (department, not prison!). It was the victory of the right to respect for privacy, they had discovered the absolute necessity after having met with prostitutes, women prisoners. Both stressed that the greatest deprivation of liberty has always been that of women.
These are university- women who put their knowledge, experience, authority, commitment to serve a feminist. That is to say the service, solidarity of women to which they belong. Both emphasize that this 20th century contraception has allowed women, so long subject, to become acting subjects of their lives.
Françoise Héritier, like many women, brought by different names during his life and has made these names then successively, in which we have known throughout his career : Françoise Izard and Héritier-Augé then just HIS name: Heir (one male! but it does nothing). What famous men have a reputation to maintain with successive names that are easy to use? (We had already known the case of Alice Picard, first "President", now Alice Saunier-Seite Minister)
If she had kept her name without wearing one of her husbands, we have also seen all the symbolism in his field of research affiliations. But we see precisely with his ex and colleague, but better than many couples, a track record and speak intelligently.
All these little details covered in less than an hour does not mark a great difference between an exceptional career and a life of woman as other. Instead the experience of the researcher us to get our act together, as she used her knowledge to help other women. A detail from
others: she does not hesitate to point out that throughout his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, 25 years ago, it freed her anguish and nervous tissue by manipulating a ball ... Even at this level, single woman in front of an audience of men knows the same experience as others. Irrelevant triviality? not. Itself assumes and invites us to move.
This woman of common and uncommon wanted to leave a pedigree and a link for future action: women's associations keep the memory dazzled - and friendly - Françoise Héritier interventions to encourage them to continue making its expertise available to them as a tool for reflection.
It was also found among 200 intellectuals in support of a candidate Segolene Royal and demolishing , two years ago in Le Monde, arguments misogynist.
Thus there is no excuse for that kind quibble "oh no, I'm not a feminist." Really? and I want it all anyway? If there was no feminist, how could I contraception and had a thousand little freedoms gained difficult? How could I hope - one day? " - A position, salary, superannuation, conditions of life that I deserve?
These great university if discrete set an example and encourage us to "keep hope in the human capacity to change" the world.
Françoise Héritier stresses the need to abolish the hierarchy between men and women millennium and in all places: means "make the world better, because it is the first hierarchy" and its abolition will other progress. She invites us
to "hope for this century", a "great time" .
Optimist and more by these days ... There are wonderful women! to us to deserve it. Let us ; and girls, are studying!
See here:
Footprints - Francoise Heritier
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