Marcela Iacub (born 1964) is an

Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...

writer and

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...

specializing in

bioethics Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, med ...

research, living in

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. In 2013, Iacub was successfully sued for invasion of privacy by

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn (; born 25 April 1949), also known as DSK, is a French economist and politician who served as the tenth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and was a member of the French Socialist P ...

: her novel ''Belle et Bête'' included a character based on him.

Life and work

The daughter of a lawyer, she was born and raised in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

into an Argentine family of

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background. Her family ancestors were Belarusian and

Ukrainian Jews The history of the Jews in Ukraine dates back over a thousand years; Jewish communities have existed in the territory of Ukraine from the time of the Kievan Rus' (late 9th to mid-13th century). Some of the most important Jewish religious and ...

, although she considers herself as an

atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

. She studied law and became the youngest member of the Buenos Aires bar at the age of 21. She continued her studies at the

School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and ''grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...

(EHESS) in France. Iacub became a researcher at the

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as well as an associate member of the Centre d'étude des normes juridiques at EHESS. She was also a columnist for the newspaper ''

Libération ''Libération'' (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Initially positioned on the far-left of France's ...

''. Iacub is known for voicing opinions contrary to those of mainstream French feminists. In 2001, with Pierre Jouannet, she published ''Juger la vie''. The following year, she published a collection of essays ''Le crime était presque sexuel et autres essais de casuistique juridique''. In 2012, she published ''Une société de violeurs?'' which defended Dominique Strauss-Kahn and criticized feminist critics for their portrayal of men. An affair with Strauss-Kahn followed which ended in August that year. In September 2014, she became a panelist on the RTL radio show

Les Grosses Têtes Les Grosses Têtes (; ("The Big Heads" or "The Big Brains" in English) is a daily comedy radio programme on the French language RTL radio network. Broadcast since 1 April 1977, the current host since 2014 has been Laurent Ruquier. Presently bro ...

Filmography

* 2011 : ''

The Woman in the Fifth ''The Woman in the Fifth'' (French title ''La femme du Vème'') is a 2011 French-British-Polish drama film directed and written by Paweł Pawlikowski. Adapted from Douglas Kennedy (writer), Douglas Kennedy's 2007 novel of the same name, the film ...

'', directed by

Paweł Pawlikowski Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski (; born 15 September 1957) is a Polish filmmaker. He garnered early praise for a string of documentaries in the 1990s and for his award-winning feature films of the 2000s, '' Last Resort'' (2000) and ''My Summer of ...

: Isabella

Selected works

* ''Une journée dans la vie de Lionel Jospin'' (2006) * ''Par le trou de la serrure. Une histoire de la pudeur publique, XIX-XXIe siècle'' (2008)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Iacub, Marcela 1964 births Living people Argentine emigrants to France Argentine essayists Argentine women novelists Argentine writers in French Argentine atheists Argentine people of Belarusian-Jewish descent Argentine people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent Jewish Argentine writers Jewish atheists Jewish women writers Writers from Buenos Aires Argentine secular Jews

Life and work

Filmography

Selected works

See also

References