Unconditional equality

How to understand the persistence of inequalities in France when equality is proclaimed central to the country of human rights? It is to this question that Réjane Sénac answers in this disturbing, challenging and original essay. It challenges the French conception of equality, as a myth to be deconstructed in order to move towards unconditional equality: below sex, social and ethno-racial origin, religion and sexual orientation. In other words, we will only be equal if we recognize each other as similar and not as complementary with regard to fixed and congealing identifications. Through a critical re-reading of the Republican motto, she shows that equality will only exist by freeing itself from the performance narrative of diversity, embodied in slogans such as "diversity is good for business". or "diversity is an added value", especially between women and men. If we do not want to live in a society where even equality becomes a story of profitability and success story, it is urgent to wake up from this fairy "account". With explosive argumentation, Réjane Sénac develops innovative and daring feminist thought. From the analyzes of Thomas Piketty and Raphaël Enthoven, to the success of a rapper like Orelsan, she shows how we can say we are for equality while participating in the reproduction of inequalities. She looks back on the current struggles of French feminism, from inclusive writing to the controversies sparked by the #MeToo movement and single-sex feminist and anti-racist meetings. Réjane Sénac deconstructs the myth of equality to think about and promote unconditional equality.