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April 4, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

No. 1 pdf Black and Red Feminism from 19th Century France Texts by Jeanne Deroin and André Léo No. 2 pdf Black and Red Feminism #2 Featuring works by and about Flora Tristan, Eugénie Niboyet, […]

Jenny P. d’Héricourt in “The Agitator” (1869)

December 16, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Bibliography: Jenny P. d’Héricourt, “Woman’s Rights in France,” The Agitator 1 no. 8 (May 1, 1869): 1. La Femme, “Madame Jenny P. d’Héricourt,” The Agitator 1 no. 9 (May 8, 1869): 6. Jenny P. d’Héricourt, […]

Jenny d’Hericourt vs. the Double Standard

July 28, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Proudhon took a beating when he challenged her. What chance would a mere abstract inconsistency have against the power of Jenny P. d’Hericourt? This is enough fun to merit a full cross-post from Black and […]

Jenny d’Héricourt’s “Appeal to Women” and “Profession of Faith”

May 31, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

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 […]

Adrien Ranvier — Jeanne Deroin, A Feminist of 1848 — I

May 30, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

A FEMINIST OF 1848: Jeanne DEROIN This study of Jeanne Deroin is the work left by Adrien Ranvier, who died September 18, 1905, at Asniéres (Seine). Adrien Ranvier, born in 1807, son of Gabriel Ramier, […]

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Feminism in Lyon before 1848: Eugénie Niboyet and Flora Tristan

March 19, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve posted a working translation of both sections of Maximilien Buffenoir’s “Feminism in Lyon before 1848.” I had worked up the section on Eugénie Niboyet last June, and finally got a chance to finish up […]

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Feminism in Lyon before 1848 — Eugénie Niboyet

June 6, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

This short account of the life of Eugénie Niboyet is the first part of an article that appeared in the Revue d’histoire de Lyon (Vol. 7, 1908, pp. 348-358). The second half of the article […]

From “L’Opinion des Femmes,” August 1848

May 16, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

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 […]

Jeanne Deroin to Proudhon, January 1849

May 16, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

[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 […]

Paule Mink, “Broken Arm” (1895)

April 29, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

Picked up in the street, one morning, between a pile of rubbish and some rubble from demolition, abandoned like a small cat someone wants to be rid of, he was carried to the alms-house, and then placed among some farmers who raised him, giving him bread, in exchange, when he got to be a little bigger, for a labor that was very hard for a child, but who never had for him either affection or caresses. […]