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Farida Belghoul | |
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 Belghoul in 2014 | |
| Born | (1958-03-08)8 March 1958 |
| Occupation | Writer, activist |
| Nationality | French |
| Notable works | Georgette |
Farida Belghoul (born 1958) is a Frenchauthor ofAlgerian descent who was raised inFrance. She was the main spokesperson for the secondMarch for Equality and Against Racism which took place throughout France in 1984. HernovelGeorgette! was published in 1986.
Belghoul has opposed since at least October 2013 the teaching ofgender theory to schoolchildren. She is troubled by the programme in the national elementary curriculum calledL'ABCD de l'égalité (The Basics of Equality), which was launched in September 2013 and whose main aim is to "fight gender stereotypes at school".[1]
Belghoul launched her absenteeism protest programme on 13 December 2013, by which she hoped, by her programme of non-cooperation, to pressure the authorities. The first absentee day was 24 January 2014 and caused the Minister of Education,Vincent Peillon, to answer questions in theAssemblée Nationale on 28 January, during which time he stated categorically:[1][2]
Ce que nous faisons ce n'est pas la théorie du genre, je la refuse, c'est promouvoir les valeurs de la République et l'égalité entre les hommes et les femmes.
However, the Subcommittee on Education[3] on 28 February 2013 had voted in favour of an amendment proposed byMartine Faure, favoured byYves Durand,Martine Martinel andMarie-George Buffet among others, that replaced the biological concepts of "sex", with the sociological concepts of "gender".[4]
On 11 May 2014, the anniversary of SaintJeanne d'Arc, Belghoul and a French Catholic pressure group,Civitas, demonstrated together at a park inParis. The alliance grouped opponents of themariage pour tous policy.[5]
In January 2014, Belghoul also called for women to wear skirts, and leave trousers to men, in the so-called "year of the skirt".[6]
