USA, Verso Books.

The incendiary French feminist work that defined ecofeminism is now available in English for the first time.

Originally published in French in 1974, radical feminist Françoise d’Eaubonne’s work takes stock of the situation of women around the world and asserts that what is at stake in feminist struggles is not equality, but life or death – for human beings and the planet. In this wide-ranging manifesto, d’Eaubonne first proposed a political vision of ecofeminism, arguing that the patriarchal system’s claim on women’s bodies and the natural world destroys both, and that feminism and environmentalism must bring about a new “mutation” – an overthrow not just of male power but of the power system itself. As d’Eaubonne prophesied, “the planet placed under the sign of the feminine will green up for all”. (Source: Verso Books, DeepL).

Schocken Books, USA

Partial translation by Ynestra King in New French Feminisms: An Anthology of Françoise’s best-known book, Le Féminisme ou la Mort, in which she uses the neologism “ecofeminism” for the first time.

Genève, éditions Minerva,110 pages

Adel Negro’s partial English translation (or inspired work) of Balzac que voici.

Note: Awaiting annotation.

Ace Books, New York

American translation of Les Tricheurs, Françoise’s novelization of Marcel Carné’s film starring Pascale Petit, Jacques Charrier and Laurent Terzieff.

English translation by Naomi Walford of Comme un vol de gerfauts. Awarded the Prix des Lecteurs in 1947, this long novel heralds the themes and forms dear to Françoise’s heart, which were to recur throughout her novels. The sea, its buccaneering and shipwrecks (at her request, Françoise’s ashes will be scattered by a sailing ship off the Morbihan), and above all the historical novel transformed into a psychological narrative, because it seemed to her that this form was “more accessible to our modern sensibility”, as she says in the introduction. Hence our feeling, according to Élise Thiébaut, “of living the adventures from the inside”, reinforced by striking, highly pictorial descriptions. (Vincent)

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)