Françoise today
“I know very well that I will be recognized after my death…”
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Will we see Moira Millan again?
Photo credit: Des Femmes - Antoinette Fouque All I do now is make short-term plans. Back in my homeland, I expect to be arrested or murdered every day by organized crime in league with the state. Exile? Impossible! If I die, I won't be the first, and that will have a...
Phallocratic rabbitry
Part four of this interesting (as always) Reporterre dossier begins as follows: We need to go on a "belly strike" and put an end to "phallocratic rabbitry", as ecofeminist activist Françoise d'Eaubonne put it with her usual verve in Le Féminisme ou la mort. That was...
All Power is evil!
What verve, what spirit! A long-standing feminist who was recently alerted to man's insane exploitation of nature, Françoise vituperated: "All power is evil in anyone's hands!" For her, it was a question of taking power to destroy it, not to exercise it, in order to...
Françoise in America
The site goes international. An English-language version was quickly added. 35 years after her trip to the USA, Françoise returns. At the helm are two fellow leading American academics: Danielle Roth-Johnson, head of the Gender and Sexuality Studies department in Las...
Shooting
Journalist Manon Aubel has begun shooting a documentary on Françoise d'Eaubonne's 70s. During this pivotal decade, the author published several novels and important feminist essays, helped found the Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire, became aware of the damage...
50 years ago, in San Remo
On April 5, 1972, Françoise and a score of activists from the French, Belgian, Dutch, Norwegian and British homosexual movements, including her companion Marc Payen, went to San Remo to join their FUORI comrades in sabotaging the first International Congress of...
Carolyn Merchant : Feminism or Death
The English edition of Féminisme ou la Mort from Françoise contains a foreword by Carolyn Merchant, which I obviously read with great interest when I received the book. Carolyn Merchant resituates the work in the history of feminism and ecofeminism. Going right back...
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