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To carry out her project. Furthermore, she chose anonymity to work freely, without undergoing pressure or reprisals from an environment that she knows sensitive to her image. Moreover, She launched herself in an investigation as an independent. Moreover, without the support of an editorial staff, in order to denounce gendered, sexual and professional violence for too long in publishing. Therefore,
A space intended to collect information anonymously from the AUTEURES, publishers, booksellers, literary agents or even distribution employees. Similarly, This long -term project aims to “free the floor” and encourage the world of the book to make your introspection. Furthermore, The investigation which intends to reveal the dark side of a literary environment where ordinary sexism. Meanwhile, harassment and abuse of power are too often ignored.
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Very real and quantified violence
The facts sought through this investigation survey world book are part of a broader, now well documented phenomenon. For example, In 2015. Nevertheless, the INED turn study revealed that women are affected by sexual violence in all circles: “Sexual violence rates are much higher for women […] Women are reached throughout life, in all spaces (INED 2017 survey).
In 2019. For example, a large European survey conducted by IFOP for the Jean-Jaurès Foundation confirmed the magnitude of the problem at work: “60 % of Europeans questioned have already been victims of a form of sexism or sexual harassment at work during their professional life . (Via Jean Jaurès Foundation)
Closer to the world of book. the SCAM (Civil Society of Authors) published a first edifying first state of the inventory at the end of 2024. His study. carried out with thousands of authors and authors, concludes that “deeply rooted” violence in the cultural environment: “More than half of the survey world book women questioned (58 %) report having already been victims of sexist actions, a quarter (26 %) of sexual harassment and approximately one in seven (13 %) of sexual assault”, According to SCAM data.
The organization also underlines the role of precariousness in these abuses: many victims occupy fragile statutes (freelance. intermittent) in the face of often high -placed attackers (producers, literary directors, etc.), this imbalance of power supplying a climate of impunity. These figures confirm that the abuses – denounced by the first witnesses that the former journalist asked – exist indeed. are found on a large scale in culture as in publishing.
The end of the omerta? The middle of the book is mobilized
The approach of this new survey is part of the wake of #MeToo. recent mobilizations in the sector. Already in February 2020. forty-four literary personalities-including Léonora Miano, Valentine Goby, Olivier Adam or David Foenkinos-had signed survey world book a forum on Franceinfo to denounce sexism in the edition. “There are many – too many – to have been faced with sexist and sexual violence […] »they then declared there, in response to the Matzneff affair on France Info.
However, it was not until 2021 that the edition community really began to break its silence. In May of that year. a shocking platform entitled “Everyone knew” – Signed by more than a hundred book professionals, including figures like Pénélope Bagieu or Alice Zeniter – was published in Liberation.
“Edition. like all professional circles, is not spared from sexism, moral harassment, sexual harassment and sexual assault”said this founding text, enjoining employers in the sector to react: “It has to stop. It has to change ”. The wave of speech release has also manifested on social networks.
Survey – Balance your publisher: “It had to come out”
As survey world book early as April 2021, the anonymous collective balances your publisher emerged on Instagram to collect testimonies of harassment, discrimination and sexual violence in the edition, illustrating that “The world of the book is far from spared”.
Since then, some publishing houses have set up listening cells or adopted charters of good conduct. If these initiatives mark an advance. the path remains – in the general opinion – still long to shake the culture of silence and establish real changes in the world of the book.
Recently, a commission of inquiry examining violence in culture was set up by the National Assembly. But, particularly (d) surprising, the book industry was absent.
The investigation perimeter seemed to have excluded the book. With a justification: “We are well aware that violence of all kinds are not only confined to these sectors. but concern many others, cultural and societal ”indicated the parliamentary collaborator of survey world book the rapporteur, Erwan Balanant.
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