1978 : Feminismus und « Terror »

by | Updated on 09/06/2025 | Published on 04/05/1978 | 2.1 Bibliographies, German

Original title Contre-Violence ou la résistance à l’Etat, translation by Regina Weiss, München: Trikont Verlag, 1978, 149 pages

A publication which, for reasons of content and editing, seems as dubious as it is confusing, and must be viewed extremely critically. We will confine ourselves to three quotations.

Editor’s note: “Feminism and ‘terror’ is primarily a debate within the feminist movement. In terms of content, we do not have the same appreciation of the text. But we are all of the opinion that the issues addressed must find a space in the FRG, which is far from obvious since the literary bans”.

Translator’s note: “By agreement with the author, the first chapter of the French edition, “La guérilla urbaine”, and Appendix 1 of “Reunion des Dissidents” have not been translated. We have added the essay “Women, revolution and the workers’ movement”, the text on Rita Brown and, slightly shortened, a commentary on Peter Brückner’s book “Ulrike Meinhof und die deutschen Verhältnisse”.

Cover text Quote: “The text is complemented by a critical and supportive afterword by Evelyn Le Garrec, who explains why, in her view, feminist forms of underground militarist struggle, even for a politically critical feminist movement, are not defensible”. (Herbert Kapfer)

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1978 : Das Geheimnis des Mandelplaneten

by | Updated on 09/06/2025 | Published on 04/05/1978 | 2.1 Bibliographies, German

Original title Le satellite de l’amande, translation by Uli Aumüller, Rowohlt, coll. neue frau, 126 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l’Amande is the first part of a saga to be continued by Les Bergères de l’apocalypse; the third part of this trilogy, unpublished until recently, was published by Des Femmes-Antoinette Fouque in November 2022.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)

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1978 : le donne prima del patriarcato

by | Updated on 10/06/2025 | Published on 04/05/1978 | 2.1 Bibliographies, Italian

felina editrice, 1976, 246 pages

In this Italian version of Les Femmes avant le patriarcat, a note on the first page reads: “questo libro e diretto solo alle donne” (this book is for women only).

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

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1978 : Contre-violence ou la Résistance à l’État

by | Updated on 18/10/2024 | Published on 04/05/1978 | 1974-1979 Ecologie/Féminisme, 2.1 Bibliographies, Philosophical essays

Paris, Éditions tierce, 96 pages.

Contre-violence is an eclectic, fast-paced work combining poems, political texts, articles published in feminist magazines, open letters, newspaper collages, leaflets… In this essay, Françoise d’Eaubonne refuses to condemn the use of violence a priori on moral grounds, enabling her to consider the broad spectrum of violence and its consequences, without dogmatism.

She does not end up with a compromise position, true to herself, but pleads for mutual respect for tactics and strategic choices. Having experienced and put into action acts of counter-violence, and knowing the costs involved, she is driven here by an ethical concern for the use of violence. Favoring a counter-violence that does not attack the living, she is also vigilant about contained violence, so that this violence is never transformed into revenge, individual venting, enjoyment and, ultimately, the seizure of power; so that “women’s power becomes non-power”, always at the service of diversity and the multiple (Pauline).

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1978 : Écologie/Féminisme – Révolution ou mutation ?

by | Updated on 18/10/2024 | Published on 04/05/1978 | 1974-1979 Ecologie/Féminisme, 2.1 Bibliographies, Philosophical essays

Paris, A.T.P., 224 pages.

Écologie/féminisme : révolution ou mutation ? Takes up the main eco-feminist theses that Françoise d’Eaubonne has been developing since the beginning of the 1970s, to bring them to a point of incandescence in this work with a largely prophetic and apocalyptic tone. She sets out her conviction that it is useless to continue to think about the future in the light of eroded political analyses: the revolutionary imagination has revealed its flaws from the history of the French Revolution to that of socialism. Since 1972, she has asserted that we must move on to a mutational imagination: everything must change. Because patriarchy is, according to her, the first historical cause of all social and environmental dysfunctions, because the “masculine” ideology is an exploitative and devastating ideology, feminism and the ecological struggle are the last ramparts against the environmental apocalypse that is in the making. (Aurore)

reissued as:
– D’EAUBONNE, Françoise. Écologie et Féminisme : révolution ou mutation ? . Libre & Solidaire, May 2018, 236 pages.

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