Contr'un
L’Opinion des Femmes, 1848-1849
The letter from Jeanne Deroin to Proudhon that I just posted appeared in French in L’Opinion de Femmes, a radical feminist journal edited by Deroin and Désirée Gay. The entire run of the paper can […]
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Black and Red Feminism
Jeanne Deroin to Proudhon, January 1849
[Jeanne Deroin. “Lettre a M. Proudhon.” L’Opinion des Femmes. No. 1, Year 1. January 28, 1849.] Letter to Proudhon. Monsieur, I know that, preoccupied most especially with questions of political economy, you have not accepted […]
Black and Red Feminism
Séverine, Liberty—Equality—Fraternity
from NOTES OF A TROUBLE-MAKER Séverine (Caroline Rémy de Guebhard) ____ LIBERTY — EQUALITY — FRATERNITY Liberty? That night, on the asphalt beach that dominates the view from my window, some human wreckage, a father, […]
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Black and Red Feminism from 19th Century France
I’m gathering material for a fairly major foray into the works of 19th century French feminists, including completing the translations of some of the responses to Proudhon. But every major foray has to start with […]
From the Archives
Joseph Déjacque, “The Human Being” (1857)
I’ve been working to track down the various feminist critiques of Proudhon by his contemporaries, and translate those which have not been translated. I was actually about half-way through a translation of Déjacque’s “On the […]
The Sex Question
A socialist-feminist document from 1849
[ezcol_2third] FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION OF THE SOCIALIST DEMOCRATS OF BOTH SEXES FOR THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN 1849 —————- DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES In the name of God and the solidarity which links all the […]