2022: Feminism or Death

by | Updated on 19/10/2024 | Published on 04/05/2022 | 2.1 Bibliographies, English

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).

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2019 : El Sexocidi de les bruixes

by | Updated on 04/05/2025 | Published on 04/05/2019 | 2.1 Bibliographies, Other languages

Barcelone, Incorpore Editore

Le soxocide des sorcières in Catalan

Françoise d’Eaubonne published Le Sexocide des Sorcières in 1999, after fifty years of writing and political commitment, having introduced the word “phallocrate” into the French language in 1971 and the concept of ecofeminism in 1978 (in reality 1974, editor’s note). (Source Incorpore)

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2019 : El Sexocidio de la brujas

by | Updated on 19/10/2024 | Published on 03/05/2019 | 2.1 Bibliographies, Spanish

Barcelone, Incorpore.

Le Sexocide des sorcières in Spanish.

Françoise d’Eaubonne published Le Sexocide des sorcières in 1999, after fifty years of writing and political commitment, having introduced the word “phallocrate” into the French language (1971) and introduced the concept of ecofeminism (1978). (in reality, in 1974, editor’s note). (Source Incorpore)

From the moment men took control of fertility (through agriculture) and fecundity (through reproduction), land and women were exploited according to a productivist logic. For five thousand years, patriarchy has been responsible for ecological disaster and the enslavement of women. The “witch hunt” is yet another episode in this domination which, for two centuries, persecuted and massacred women for the sole fact that they were women and not witches (Source: Incorpore).

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1980: Feminism or Death

by | Updated on 19/10/2024 | Published on 04/05/1980 | 2.1 Bibliographies, English

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.

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1980 : Kønskampens historie

by | Updated on 10/06/2025 | Published on 04/05/1980 | 2.1 Bibliographies, Other languages

Édition Alfehjul, 120 pages.

Danish translation by Merete Aaberg of Les Femmes avant le patriarcat, the title meaning something like L’Histoire de la lutte pour l’égalité des sexes according to DeepL.

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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