Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920-2005) was a leading French feminist who is credited with coining the term "eco-feminism" in 1974. A former member of the French Communist Party, she co-founded the Front homosexual d’action révolutionnaire in 1971 and created the Ecology-Feminism Center in Paris in 1972. d’Eaubonne was the author of more than 50 works, including novels, poetry, and essays. Her historical novel Comme un vol de gerfauts (1947) was translated into English as A Flight of Falcons, and extracts from Feminism or Death appeared in English in the anthology New French Feminisms in 1981.

Myriam Bahaffou is a scholar activist ; her main field of research is animal ethics, in an decolonial ecofeminist perspective. In France, she tries to renew the vision of the ecofeminist movement, insisting on its radicality and showing the originality of its narrations.

Julie Gorecki is an ecofeminist activist, scholar and writer. She works on new ecological feminisms towards a "feminist system change not climate change." She is a PhD candidate at the University of California Berkeley and is also part of the transnational women and feminists for climate justice movement.

Ruth Hottell holds a Ph.D. in French from the University of Illinois. Having published numerous articles on French literature, cultural studies, and film, she also co-authored three books on Francophone women filmmakers. Now Professor Emerita of French at the University of Toledo, she was recently named to the Order of Academic Palms by the French government.

Preface, by Carolyn Merchant
Introduction, by Myriam Bahaffou and Julie Gorecki (translated by Emma Ramadan)

INTRODUCTION

FEMINITUDE, OR RADICAL SUBJECTIVITY
The Tragedy of Being a Woman
Majority or Minority?
Work and Prostitution
Rape

FROM REVOLUTION TO MUTATION
The Stress of the Rat
Regarding Abortion
For a Planetary Feminist Manifesto
For a Planetary Feminist Manifesto (continued)
For a Feminist Planetary Manifesto (end)
Departure for a Long March

THE TIME FOR ECOFEMINISM
New Perspectives
Ecology and Feminism

Appendices
A. How women do not control their destiny
B. The New Feminine Mystique (Liberation)
C. A Rose for Valerie
D. A Tract for a "Feminist Front"
E. To See Clearly (Combat for Man)

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