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Le In 1980, issue 20 of Sorcières, les femmes vivents published 6 pages by Françoise. She summarizes her long work to flush out the root causes of our aberrations. The passage of time only strengthens her pen and, despite anthropological reminders that can sometimes be dated, she gets to the point in the last two dazzling…
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Le Yverdon, Kesselring, 389 pages. A book started following the death of Ulrike Meinhof in prison, On vous appelait terroristes offers a partial biography, fictionalized and polyphonic, of the protagonists of the German Red Army Faction. Each chapter focuses on the experience that each of them has (at the death of Katrina, Ulrike Meinhof) about the…
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Le Encre, collection Mémoire des Femmes, 273 pages (Reissue, original published under the title Je m’appelle Kristine, 1959). Marguerite Yourcenar’s monumental work, Les mémoires d’Hadrien, inevitably comes to mind when reading Françoise’s novel. And it is not the transparent clues that she left that will invalidate this observation. One could think of a stylistic imitation, when…
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Le Original title Contre-Violence ou la résistance à l’Etat, translation by Regina Weiss, München: Trikont Verlag, 1978, 149 pages A publication which, for reasons of content and editing, seems as dubious as it is confusing, and must be viewed extremely critically. We will confine ourselves to three quotations. Editor’s note: “Feminism and ‘terror’ is primarily a…
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Le Original title Le satellite de l’amande, translation by Uli Aumüller, Rowohlt, coll. neue frau, 126 pages. All the men have disappeared. That is to say: all the males. In this novel, where they reproduce by ectogenesis (a means of reproduction that allows them to do without men), women, after having brought life back to an…
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Le felina editrice, 1976, 246 pages In this Italian version of Les Femmes avant le patriarcat, a note on the first page reads: “questo libro e diretto solo alle donne” (this book is for women only). By creating ecofeminism, Françoise’s genius was not to bring a new concept: it was to connect us with an immemorial…
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Le Paris, Éditions tierce, 96 pages. Contre-violence is an eclectic, fast-paced work combining poems, political texts, articles published in feminist magazines, open letters, newspaper collages, leaflets… In this essay, Françoise d’Eaubonne refuses to condemn the use of violence a priori on moral grounds, enabling her to consider the broad spectrum of violence and its consequences, without…
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Le Paris, A.T.P., 224 pages. Écologie/féminisme : révolution ou mutation ? Takes up the main eco-feminist theses that Françoise d’Eaubonne has been developing since the beginning of the 1970s, to bring them to a point of incandescence in this work with a largely prophetic and apocalyptic tone. She sets out her conviction that it is useless…