Françoise d'Eaubonne

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Françoise d'Eaubonne was a French queer activist, SF writer, and radical ecofeminist, who coined the term "écoféminisme" in 1974.

Her family were radicals, involved with Spanish anarchist politics.

She was an active writer of poetry, essays and criticism, and fiction, including SF novels.

SFnal works

• L'échiquier du temps (The Chessboard of Time)
• Rêve de feu (Dream of Fire)
• Le Sous-marin de l'espace (The Submarine of Space)

Significant feminist works

• La féminisme ou la mort (1974; Eng., "Feminism or death"; from which the term "écoféminisme" was derived); essay in New French Feminisms (1974)
• Le Sexocide des sorcières (1999) (Gynocide of the Witches; about the witch burnings in Europe)

Other works

• Comme un vol de gerfauts (1947; Eng. transl. A Flight of Falcons)

Further reading

• French wikipedia with bibliography

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