2024 : Le donne prima del patriarcato

by | Updated on 01/05/2025 | Published on 04/05/2024 | 2.1 Bibliographies, Italian

Rome, Nova Delphi Libri, prefaced by Vincent d’Eaubonne, october 2024

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This text offers a unique perspective on the role of women in history, often downplayed by scholars. Based on an analysis combining archaeological discoveries, anthropology and the study of myths and legends from the ancient world, d’Eaubonne provides us with an astonishing reconstruction of the social weight of women and the struggles that enabled them to play a leading role over the centuries, emphasizing that patriarchy is in no way “natural” or innate: it was imposed only after fierce resistance on the part of the female gender. But the author goes further, pointing out that her political objective is not a society dominated by women, but a non-hegemonic society that sees “the end of patriarchy in all its forms, not just the oppression of women” (Automatic translation).

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2024 : Il sessosidio delle streghe

by | Updated on 19/10/2024 | Published on 04/05/2024 | 2.1 Bibliographies, Italian

Prospero Editore, Milan, mars 2024

After translating Feminism or Death, Sara Marchesi, collection director at Prospero Editore, decided to make this text by Françoise known in Italy.

The sexocide that Françoise d’Eaubonne talks about in this text, the treatment reserved for “witches” during the hunt that was carried out against them, was only a pretext. It was a perfect trick, suited to the era in which these events took place, to justify the torture and murder of women. Kramer and Sprenger’s Malleus Maleficarum would be treated today as the manifesto of an incel, released on the web a few hours before going to commit his mass murder in a place frequented mainly by women. (Taous Merakchi, 2023)

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2024 : Le Féminisme ou la Mort (pocket)

by | Updated on 17/10/2024 | Published on 04/05/2024 | 2.1 Bibliographies, Philosophical essays, Reissues

Paris, Le Passager Clandestin, poket edition, 5 avril 2024

This paperback reissue of the title, published in 2020 by the same editors, comes a month before another must-have, Ecoféminisme Politique by Ariel Saleh, which follows on from it.

Originally published in 1974, this seminal book opens up new perspectives for ecological and feminist struggles, which Françoise tells us are destined to join in the fight against the patriarchy that, in the same movement, subjugates women and destroys the planet.

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2023 : Je ne suis pas née pour mourir

by | Updated on 17/10/2024 | Published on 04/05/2023 | 2.1 Bibliographies, Reissues, Science fiction

Paris, Le Seuil, pocket, preface Pauline Harmange, septembre 2023

This 1982 novel tells the story of an Amazon, Thécla, who, after drinking a certain potion, goes through time and encounters great moments in history. For the first time, the myth of immortality is embodied by a woman. This prodigious adventure novel leads us to meet Alexander the Great, to the discovery of America by the Vikings, to the formidable machines designed by Leonardo da Vinci, to the war in Vendée,… up to Nazism and then to May-68.

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2023 : Écologie/Féminisme – Révolution ou mutation ?

by | Updated on 17/10/2024 | Published on 04/05/2023 | 2.1 Bibliographies, Philosophical essays, Reissues

Paris, Le Passager Clandestin, preface Geneviève Pruvost, 349 pages.

Building upon the publication of Feminism or Death (1974) and her scholarly research in Women before Patriarchy (1976), Françoise d’Eaubonne provides a more complex elaboration of her vision of ecofeminism in this work.

In opposition to reformist feminism, which she describes as “mom’s feminism,” but also Marxist feminism, d’Eaubonne adds two dimensions to her analysis of the exploitation of nature and countries in the Global South: in her view, liberating oneself as a woman to the detriment of the planet and through the labor and exploitation of the most vulnerable is not really a true form of liberation. For how can it be forgotten that at the other end of the supply chain there are women bent over in fields on the other side of the world? (Geneviève Pruvost, 2022)

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2023 : Le Sexocide des sorcières

by | Updated on 17/10/2024 | Published on 04/05/2023 | 2.1 Bibliographies, Historical essays, Reissues

Vauvert, Au diable vauvert, collection Nouvelles Lunes, preface Taous Merakchi, 109 pages.

The sexocide that Françoise d’Eaubonne talks about in this text, the treatment reserved for “witches” during the hunt that was carried out against them, was only a pretext. It was a perfect trick, suited to the era in which these events took place, to justify the torture and murder of women. Kramer and Sprenger’s Malleus Maleficarum would be treated today as the manifesto of an incel, released on the web a few hours before going to commit his mass murder in a place frequented mainly by women. (Taous Merakchi, 2023)

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