The paperback version of this title, published by Le Passager Clandestin, is out this April 5. As we’ve come to expect from them, the editors have done a fine job: pleasant cover, solid-looking binding, this is a well-made book. The 352-page content is identical to the previous edition. And it’s perhaps no coincidence that it comes out a month before the arrival of an essential, again from Le Passager: Pour une politique écoféministe by Ariel Saleh, finally translated, which has so much in common with it: Françoise formulated with brio, Ariel Saleh analyzes and roots with power.
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Originally published in 1974, Le Féminisme ou la Mort (Feminism or Death), a seminal work, opens up new perspectives for the 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.

In this book, whose title is a nod to René Dumont’s L’Utopie ou la Mort, Françoise announces what is now a reality: the destruction of the world by productivism and power. Capital, now neoliberal, is only “the tip of the weapon that wounds and tears us apart: its handle is lost in the mists of time“. Two years later, she would detail her anthropological vision in Les Femmes avant le patriarcat.