F. d’Eaubonne, C-P. PAJARD et P. ULRICH. Geneva, Famot, 247 pages.

Françoise took charge of the first part, the history of drugs, covering 130 pages. This commissioned work is not as bland as one might fear. Although dated, it nevertheless evokes the establishment by colonial states of a lucrative trade, with complete disregard for the health of the populations.

England with opium, the Netherlands with cocaine. In short, the first drug traffickers, who inspired the economic structures of contemporary trafficking…

It is also in this book that I find the first trace of the term Sexocide, with a short summary of what would become, five years later, Le sexocide des sorcières (The Sexocide of Witches).

Journal of FHAR, the Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire, which Françoise co-founded. Several authors.

Note: Awaiting annotation.

Paris, Alain Moreau, 400 pages.

This book is a very dense essay on the history of feminism, from Antiquity to the beginnings of the American and French Women’s Liberation Movements. Françoise d’Eaubonne analyzes these “primordial historical facts” which are “phallocratism, sexism, then feminism”. Based on a very wide variety of references (psychoanalytical, anthropological, historical, literary, etc.), she analyzes both how sexist discrimination has been developed and maintained through the centuries and countries, and how much women have always tried to rebel against it – although their revolts were suppressed by various means. Incidentally, Françoise d’Eaubonne exposes the extent of the work carried out by her predecessors, retracing the cultural history of Western feminism – especially, but not only, centered on the French case – offering extracts from speeches or works and commenting on them. It is a book that tells the story of feminist revolutions, of their successive failures and repressions to to the advent of the MLF (the Feminist Liberation Movement). (Aurore)