Peggy Sastre (born 1981) is a French science journalist, translator, blogger and essayist. She is a

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who worked on

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and Darwin. She forms the concept of “evofeminism”, offering a biological and evolutionary reading of sexual and gender issues. Sastre was one of the authors along with

Abnousse Shalmani Abnousse Shalmani (born 1 April 1977 in Tehran, Iran) is a French journalist and writer. Shalmani was one of the authors along with Peggy Sastre of the open letter criticizing #MeToo sent to the leading French newspaper, Le Monde, signed by ove ...

of the

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criticising #

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sent to the leading French newspaper, ''

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'', signed by over 100 high-profile French women. The letter advocated in part that a "freedom to bother" — a man's right to make a pass at a woman, even if a clumsy one — was "indispensable to sexual freedom".

Publications

* ''No Sex, avoir envie de ne pas faire l'amour'', Éditions La Musardine, Paris, 2010

References

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