Paris, l’Harmattan, 105 pages.

In July 1994, in a letter to Alain Lezongar, Françoise wrote these few lines about the work she had just begun, which would be published three years later under the title Féminin et philosophie.

“I’ve taken “Woman and Philosophy” seriously, thanks to the book you sent me [Haine de la philosophie, Denys Mascolo]. My purpose, which is gradually becoming clearer, is in line with the observation made by Levinas, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century: philosophy has been “afflicted since childhood by a horror of the Other”, which has led it to the discourse of the Same; while all forms of racism are unfolding, “the Other, par excellence, is the feminine”. This confirms my point of view! Nature had to implant in the male an insatiable desire to enjoy and prolong himself to keep the male species from an exclusive homosexuality, reinforced by sexocide – the massacre of women that reappears century after century: witch-hunts, fundamentalist stonings, not to mention “serial killers”. I’m following in the footsteps of the Bergères de l’Apocalypse. Unable to kill women, patriarchy has denied, repressed, obscured “the” woman and destroyed as far as possible the trace of her works (“the sexual conflict”). It has hunted down the feminine to its very core, persecuting homosexuality as the oldest and most deeply-rooted of its desires – which, from patriarchy, would make a sterile ‘Männerbund’, itself an ever-reborn danger.”