Philosophical essays

Paris, Pierre Horay Publisher, coll. Femmes en mouvement n°2, 374 pages. Note: Awaiting annotation. reissued under: Feminism or Death. Paris, le Passager clandestin, 2021, 332 pages.

F. d’Eaubonne, C-P. PAJARD et P. ULRICH. Geneva, Famot, 247 pages. Françoise took charge of the first part, the history of drugs, covering 130 pages. This commissioned work is not as bland as one might fear. Although dated, it nevertheless evokes the establishment by colonial states of a lucrative trade, with complete disregard for the…

Journal of FHAR, the Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire, which Françoise co-founded. Several authors. Note: Awaiting annotation.

Paris, Alain Moreau, 400 pages. This book is a very dense essay on the history of feminism, from Antiquity to the beginnings of the American and French Women’s Liberation Movements. Françoise d’Eaubonne analyzes these “primordial historical facts” which are “phallocratism, sexism, then feminism”. Based on a very wide variety of references (psychoanalytical, anthropological, historical, literary,…

Paris, André Balland, 323 pages. In this seminal work, Françoise d’Eaubonne affirms that homosexuality, this “minority Eros,” as she describes it, has existed at all times and in all latitudes. Like heterosexuality, it is one of the two main branches of Eros. How is it then that it was blamed for perversion, disease, abnormality, even…

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Paris, Buchet / Chastel, 377 pages. ” … Et c’est ainsi que je vais dans la vie, avançant par à-coups, grondant et crachant le feu ; tantôt fuyant un hôtel et un salaud, tantôt écoutant une clarinette, tantôt épongeant les vomissuresd’un ivrogne ; mais toujjours plongeant dans l’intimité des maisons aux fenêtres éclairées ou sombres,…

Paris, Julliard, 301 pages. In response to the male and conservative criticism leveled at Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex , Françoise d’Eaubonne, a successful young novelist, responded with this book written in a few weeks and published with much hoopla by Julliard in 1951. In this text, Françoise rushes to the front with the…