The Sex Question
Month: June 2012
Contr'un
Proudhon’s “Catechism of Marriage”
I’ve posted a working translation of Proudhon’s “Catechism of Marriage,” from the fourth volume of Justice in the Revolution and in the Church. It’s strange stuff, and unappealing in a variety of ways, but I […]
Contr'un
P.-J. Proudhon, “Catechism of Marriage”
CATECHISM OF MARRIAGE [from Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, New Edition, Vol. IV] Question. — What is the conjugal couple? Answer. — Every power of nature, every faculty of life, every affection […]
Contr'un
Frédéric Tufferd, “Unity in Socialism” (1887)
[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: [commentary coming soon] [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] It’s always fun to be able to add a new name to the list of historical mutualists, and particularly so when the new name comes with articulate […]
poetry
Eugène Pottier, “Already!” (dedicated to Paule Mink)
ALREADY! Eugène Pottier To the citizen Paule Mink. At the break of day, the snow falls, Swirled by the air; A sheet of dove’s feathers Covers the deserted cobblestones. I soon passed that way again, […]
The Sex Question
Jenny d’Héricourt, “Appeal to Women” and “Profession of Faith”
[I’ve been working on an anthology of Jenny P. d’Héricourt’s works, combining her two-volume Woman Affranchised with an assortment of other works of feminist philosophy. d’Héricourt was, of course, one of Proudhon’s opponents on the […]
Proudhon Library
Eugène Stourm, “God, Women and Proudhon”
[Slowly, but surely, I’m assembling the various feminist responses to Proudhon. The pages of L’Opinion des Femmes is rich with that sort of thing, since it was Jeanne Deroin’s primary forum at the time she […]
Proudhon Library
Désirée Gay in “L’Opinion des Femmes,” August 1848
[These two short articles by Désirée Gay (Jeanne Desirée Véret Gay, 1810-1891) appeared in the August 1848 issue of L’Opinion des Femmes, which seems to have been a kind of testing of the waters before […]
biography
Maximilien Buffenoir, “Feminism in Lyon before 1848: Eugénie Niboyet and Flora Tristan” (1908)
FEMINISM IN LYON BEFORE 1848 I. —Feminist Tendencies before 1834. Mme Niboyet. When Fourier and, after him, the Saint-Simonians denounced the inequality of the sexes as a denial of justice, they revived a long-interrupted tradition. […]
Contr'un
Black and Red Feminist History
I’ve set up a separate blog to archive the Black and Red Feminist History project, and have begun to gather a mix of familiar and new material, including a working translation of Paule Mink’s 1891 […]