’Being a feminist is also about seeing the invisible’

Christine Detrez, lecturer at the ENS de Lyon and a specialist in gender, was one very busy woman on March 8, 2016: speaking at a roundtable in Lyon on the theme "Feminism and Seduction", and later on RFI radio station for International Women's Day. One year ago, she published Quel genre? ("What gender?"), an essay on the cliché phrases we use without thinking and which confine girls and boys to specific roles. Her latest book was released last week: Can women be great men? On March 14, she was at the Grand Palais in Paris for a debate on the theme: "Neither masculine nor feminine. Are you of the neutral gender?" Belin editions asked you to write a book on gender using a striking tone. It became Can women be great men? with anecdotes, data and quotes that make readers pause. Christine Detrez: It's a real writing exercise. I'm an adept of "gay science," as nailed by philosopher Michèle Le Doeuff.