1978 : Histoire de la galanterie – tome X Les grandes demi-mondaines
Éditions Famot. Note: Awaiting annotation.
1978 : Of writing, the body and revolution
In this short fiery text written at the age of 58, Françoise evokes her “female body open to the entire world on the futures of history of which her death is a part”. Her body, which “has experienced everything while defying the enemy and stood up singing”. Her “only friend with writing[qui]have never failed me,…
1977: Les Femmes avant le patriarcat
Payot, 239 pages. By creating ecofeminism, Françoise’s genius was not to bring a new concept: it was to connect us with an immemorial reality, that of the pre-patriarchal cultures of our geographical area, that the rationalism of the 15th century then the humanism of the Enlightenment will have tried to eradicate it in our Western…
1977 : Lettre ouverte au docteur Hutter, médecin-directeur à l’hôpital-prison de Wittlich (RFA)
Gérard Hof et Françoise d’Eaubonne, inéditions barbares. In 1976, after having been a witness at Françoise’s marriage to Pierre Sanna (detained in the prison of Health in Paris), Gérard Hof, Françoise’s companion, was imprisoned in the hospital-prison of Wittlich (FRG) and had to resist the particular methods applied by Dr. Hutter: experimental white torture, sensory…
1977 : Pour une poignée de cacahuètes
COUEDIC Didier, Gabriel CHAHINE and Françoise d’EAUBONNE Note: Awaiting annotation.
1977: The indifferent mother
In this text published in 1977 in Les Cahiers du Grif, Françoise claims to have been an “indifferent mother” instead of having been a “castrator in the kitchen, laundry, mending…”. However, she experienced what she calls “the maternal instinct”, “at the most animal level possible”. But she denounces what male society has made of…
1977: L’Éventail de fer ou la vie de Qiu Jin
Paris, Jean-Claude Simoën, 349 pages. reissued as: – D’EAUBONNE, Françoise. L’Éventail de fer ou la vie de Qiu Jin. Encre, 1984, 349 pages. “Across a sumptuous and miserable China, shaken by incessant civil wars, Qiu Jin, a great feminist, commits herself totally to the side of Sun-Yat-Sen, who was to liberate her country from the…
1976: The love revolution
During the heyday of La Gueule Ouverte (an environmental and political newspaper founded in 1972), the weekly magazine’s columns featured debates on various topics, such as non-violence and questions about love and sexuality. Françoise often took part in these controversies. In the December 29, 1976 issue, she responded to Isabelle Cabut, then editor-in-chief, by attacking…
1975: Le Satellite de l’Amande
Paris, Des Femmes , 253 pages. All the men have disappeared. That is to say: all the males. In this novel, where they reproduce by ectogenesis (a means of reproduction that allows them to do without men), women, after having brought life back to an Earth devastated by pollution, Capital and patriarchy, set off to…