Françoise d'Eaubonne was a French author, labour rights activist, environmentalist, and feminist. Her 1974 book, Le Féminisme ou la Mort, introduced the term ecofeminism. She co-founded the Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire, a homosexual revolutionary alliance in Paris.
Feminism in France is the history of feminist thought and movements in France. Feminism in France can be roughly divided into three waves: First-wave feminism from the French Revolution through the Third Republic which was concerned chiefly with suffrage and civic rights for women. Significant contributions came from revolutionary movements of the French Revolution of 1848 and Paris Commune, culminating in 1944 when women gained the right to vote.
Antoinette Fouque was a French psychoanalyst who was involved in the French women's liberation movement. She was the leader of one of the groups that originally formed the French Women's Liberation (MLF), and she later registered the trademark MLF specifically under her name. She helped found the publishing house Éditions des Femmes as well as the first collection of audio-books in France, "Bibliothèque des voix". Her position in feminist theory was primarily essentialist, and heavily based in psychoanalysis. She helped author Le Dictionnaire universel des créatrices (2013), a biographical dictionary about creative women.
Christine Delphy is a French feminist sociologist, writer and theorist. Known for pioneering materialist feminism, she co-founded the French women's liberation movement in 1970 and the journal Nouvelles questions féministes with Simone de Beauvoir in 1981.
Hélène Brion was a French teacher, feminist, socialist and communist. She was one of the leaders of the French teachers' union. During World War I (1914–18) she was arrested for distributing pacifist propaganda, given a suspended sentence and dismissed from her job as a teacher. She visited Russia soon after the Russian Revolution, and wrote a book on her experiences. It was never published. She devoted much of her effort in later years to preparing a feminist encyclopedia, which was never completed or published.
Alice La Mazière, born Alice Kühn (1880-1962) was a French journalist, socialist and feminist activist.
Amélie Trayaud was a French politician. She served in the French Resistance during World War II.
Yvonne Netter was a French advocate, journalist, campaigner for feminism and Zionism and an active member of the French Resistance during the Vichy France period. She was arrested and interned in three French-run camps before being helped to escape.
The clandestine press of the French Resistance was collectively responsible for printing flyers, broadsheets, newspapers, and even books in secret in France during the German occupation of France in the Second World War. The secret press was used to disseminate the ideas of the French Resistance in cooperation with the Free French, and played an important role in the liberation of France and in the history of French journalism, particularly during the 1944 Freedom of the Press Ordinances.
Ovida Delect was a French poet, Communist, politician and member of the French resistance during the Second World War. She was also a trans woman and wrote a two volume autobiography about her life, in which she identified similarities between her own experience and that of Christine Jorgensen. Delect starred in a documentary, which brought the experiences of trans women into the wider canon of women in French film.
Le Maitron is a set of labor movement biographical dictionaries compiled by historian Jean Maitron and his successor Claude Pennetier.
Femmes françaises was a feminist and communist women's magazine which was launched in 1944 and was the publication of the feminist social movement Femmes solidaires. The publisher of the magazine was France d'abord. The magazine was published on a weekly basis. In 1948 the magazine sold 5,600 copies. It ceased publication in 1957 and was succeeded by another feminist magazine, Clara.
Anne Zelensky is a French feminist activist and author. She is known for being a prominent figure in the Mouvement de libération des femmes, which took place in 1970 that advocated to consolidate fundamental rights for women in France.
The Paris Commune was an insurrectionary period in the history of Paris that lasted just over two months, from 18 March 1871 to the Semaine sanglante that ended on 28 May 1871. This insurrection refused to recognize the government of the National Assembly of 1871, which had just been elected by universal male suffrage. Many women took active roles in the events, and are known as "communardes". They are important in the history of women's rights in France, particularly with regards to women's emancipation. Equal pay and the first forms of structured organization of women in France appear during this period, in particular the Union des femmes pour la défense de Paris et les soins aux blessés or the Comité de vigilance de Montmartre.
Céleste Hardouin (1832–1904) was a school teacher who advocated for lay education for women.
Maria Rabaté was a French politician, writer, and school teacher. She was a member of the French Communist Party, trade unionist, and elected representative of the 1st district of Seine in the French Parliament, from 1946 to 1960. She was also appointed a knight of the Legion of Honor for the Resistance.
Bernadette Cattanéo was a French trade unionist and communist activist, as well as a newspaper editor and magazine co-founder. She is remembered as the secretary general of the World Committee Against War and Fascism. Cattanéo also held various roles of importance within the Confédération générale du travail unitaire (CGTU) and the French Communist Party (PCF).
Suzanne Bertillon was a prominent French figure before and during World War II, whose various roles included decorator, journalist, lecturer, and resistance fighter. She was a laureate of the Resistance Medal, the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945, the Cross of the Legion of Honour, and the Medal of Freedom with bronze palm.
Angèle Chevrin was a French communist politician from Corsica.
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