{"id":1790344,"date":"1977-05-04T09:00:59","date_gmt":"1977-05-04T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.francoise-d-eaubonne.org\/1977-the-indifferent-mother\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:16:08","slug":"1977-the-indifferent-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francoise-d-eaubonne.org\/Hypathie\/en\/1977-the-indifferent-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"1977: The indifferent mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; text-align: justify; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: -20px;\" dflip-tab-content-normal=\"\" class=\"dflip-tab-content dflip-active\">\n<p><code><a class=\"_df_thumb  df-has-ridge \"  href=\"#\"  data-slug=\"the-indiferent-mother\" data-_slug=\"the-indiferent-mother\" _slug=\"the-indiferent-mother\" data-title=\"1977-the-indiferent-mother\" id=\"df_471915\" data-df-option=\"df_option_471915\" thumb=\"https:\/\/www.francoise-d-eaubonne.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1977-Les-Cahiers-du-GRIF.jpeg\"  >1977 : The indiferent mother<\/a><script class=\"df-shortcode-script\" nowprocket type=\"application\/javascript\">window.df_option_471915 = {\"source\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.francoise-d-eaubonne.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/ENG-1977-Les-Cahiers-du-GRIF-1.pdf\",\"outline\":[],\"autoEnableOutline\":false,\"autoEnableThumbnail\":false,\"overwritePDFOutline\":false,\"pageSize\":\"0\",\"direction\":\"1\",\"slug\":\"the-indiferent-mother\",\"wpOptions\":\"true\",\"id\":471915}; if(window.DFLIP && window.DFLIP.parseBooks){window.DFLIP.parseBooks();}<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dflip-tab-content dflip-active\"><code><\/code><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>In this text published in 1977 in <em>Les Cahiers du Grif<\/em>, Fran\u00e7oise claims to have been an &#8220;indifferent mother&#8221; instead of having been a &#8220;castrator in the kitchen, laundry, mending&#8230;&#8221;. However, she experienced what she calls \u201cthe maternal instinct\u201d, \u201cat the most animal level possible\u201d. But she denounces what male society has made of this instinct: a &#8220;means of oppression and alienation which reduces the woman to the rank of egg-laying female&#8221;. This text is followed by the Appeal of the women of the Eco-feminist Movement to the maternity strike (already published in 1974 in <em>Charlie-Hebdo<\/em>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 10px;\"><em>&#8220;This maternal instinct, therefore, I know is real, but mystified, distorted, alienated and manipulated. When a woman speaks of her desire to have a child, I always ask her to look closely at the root of this desire. It can be authentic; there is a good chance that it is not&#8221;.<\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Fran\u00e7oise d&#8217;Eaubonne<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In this text published in 1977 in Les Cahiers du Grif, Fran\u00e7oise claims to have been an &#8220;indifferent mother&#8221; instead of having been a &#8220;castrator in the kitchen, laundry, mending&#8230;&#8221;. However, she experienced what she calls \u201cthe maternal instinct\u201d, \u201cat the most animal level possible\u201d. 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