2022: Feminism or Death
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, translated with DeepL and corrected)
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