In this episode, we discuss how to integrate the wins of feminism in our cultural institutions and programmes with Author and Researcher Reine Prat . Her book « Exploser le Plafont : précis de féminisme à l’usage du monde de la culture » is a guide for cultural institutions, programmers, and makers, to feminist ideas into their work. We also discuss the work of her partner, Nathalie Magnan, who was a pioneer in bringing feminism and cultural studies to France.

This is part 1 of our series on feminist cultural Institutions. In March, we will discuss this question with Jude Law, creator of the Women of the World Festival, ahead of the Institute’s own feminist festival, the Women Shaping the World Festival. 

Reine Prat is a Literature Scholar worked as an inspector for the French Ministry of Culture. She was a pioneer in bringing feminist questions to cultural institutions, with two ground-breaking reports on gender equality in the Arts and Culture, that she published in 2006 and 2009. She has now left the Ministry and still fights for gender equality in the cultural world, alongside working to preserve and promote the work of her late-partner, Nathalie Magnan.

Link to the Nathalie Magnan archives: https://www.archivesdelacritiquedart.org/isadg_fondsdarchives/fr-aca-nmagn :
Link to the films of Nathalie Magnan, and recorded lectures on her work https://archive.org/details/@de_la_mule_au_web