Feminism or Death

How the Women's Movement Can Save the Planet

Francoise d'Eaubonne, Ruth Hottell

• Publisher: Verso
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781839764400
• eBook ISBN:
  9781839765148
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

Originally published in French in 1974, radical feminist Francoise d'Eaubonne surveyed women's status around the globe and argued that the stakes of feminist struggle was not about equality but about life and death-for humans and the planet. In this wide-ranging manifesto, d'Eaubonne first proposed a politics of ecofeminism, the idea that the patriarchal system's claim over women's bodies and the natural world destroys both, and that feminism and environmentalism must bring about a new 'mutation'-an overthrow of not just male power but the system of power itself. As d'Eaubonne prophesied, "the planet placed in the feminine will flourish for all."

Never before published in English, and translated here by French feminist scholar Ruth Hottell, this edition includes an introduction from scholars of ecology and feminism situating d'Eaubonne's work within current feminist theory, environmental justice organizing, and anticolonial feminism.

Index

abortion, 68, 71, 77, 78, 79, 82, 83, 86–97, 102, 108, 119, 120, 129, 132, 142–6, 149–50, 152, 153, 158, 171, 173, 179, 184, 190, 207, 208, 209, 221

Abya Yala, xxviii

Action Committee, 130, 240

Actuelle, 147, 150

Adorno, Theodor W., 182

aesthetic criteria, feminists as rejecting values of, 27

Africa, feminism in, 108–10, 118–19

African Ecofeminist Collective, xxxvi

“the African woman,” as described by d’Eaubonne, xxxii

agricultural overexploitation, as produced by patriarchal power, x

Aktionsrat zur Befreiung der Frauen
(Action Committee for the Liberation of Women), 130

Alain, Madame, 53

Albert the Great, 81

Algeria

feminism in, 109–10

sexual attacks in, 180–1

Allen, Chude Pamela, 143

alliances, creation of, xix

Amazons, 212, 213

Ambroise (Saint), 40

American consumption, x, 204, 210

Amin, Samir, xxvii

Andersson, Bibi, 145

androcene, use of term, xviii

anthropocene, use of term, xviii

Antonius (Saint), 22

Antonius Liberalis, 82

Anzaldúa, Gloria, xxvi

Appunti per una rivoluzione morale (Notes for a moral revolution) (Consoli), 106

“the Arab woman,” as described by d’Eaubonne, xxxii

Argentina, feminism in, 113, 117

Armand, Inessa, 122

Atkinson, Ti-Grace, 133, 142–3, 166

Audouard, Olympe, 144

Augustine (Saint), 22, 83

authors, backgrounds of, xvii–xix

Bachofen, Johann, x

Balzac, Honoré de, 37

Banotti, Elvira, 153–4

Batlle y Ordóñez, José, 113

Baudelaire, Charles, 22, 74, 78

Beaumarchais, Pierre, 22

Beauvoir, Madame de, 36

Beauvoir, Simone de, 19, 60, 94, 120, 140, 166–7, 205

Bebel, August, x, 99, 209

Belgium, feminism in, 146

Belle du Seigneur (Cohen), 28

Benston, Margaret, 164

Berthelot, Madame, 53

Bertrand, Mireille, 231

Bertuccelli, Jean-Louis, 131, 150

Bethlehem, Father, 213

Bible, as calling humanity the masses of woman, 33

birth control, 82–3. see also contraception

Birth Control in th...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction to the New French Edition
• Feminism or Death
• Feminitude, or Radical Subjectivity
• From Revolution to Mutation
• The Time for Ecofeminism
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Glossary of Names
• Glossary of Terms
• Index
• About the Author