1977: Les Femmes avant le patriarcat

by | Updated on 04/08/2024 | Published on 04/05/1977 | 1974-1979 Ecologie/Féminisme, Historical essays

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 culture, now at the forefront of dehumanization.

Vincent d’Eaubonne, in préface pour l’édition italienne, 2024

1977: L’Éventail de fer ou la vie de Qiu Jin

by | Updated on 17/08/2024 | Published on 04/05/1977 | 1974-1979 Ecologie/Féminisme, Fictional biographies

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 imperial shackles. By turns studious young woman, wife and mother, but also poet, terrorist and tireless activist, she was beheaded at the beginning of the 20th century. L’Éventail de Fer is the fresco-like account of the real-life struggle of this young Chinese woman with an extraordinary destiny”. [4° de couverture]

1975: Le Satellite de l’Amande

by | Updated on 04/08/2024 | Published on 04/05/1975 | 1974-1979 Ecologie/Féminisme, Science fiction

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 explore a small strange planet far from our solar system. This voyage will contain many surprises for readers of this philosophical tale. “Passionate, imperious. In fresco and in relief” (Victoria Thérame). Le Satellite de l’Amande is the first part of a saga to be continued by Les Bergères de l’apocalypse; the third part of this trilogy, unpublished until recently, was published by Des Femmes-Antoinette Fouque in November 2022. (Alain)