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Nelly Roussel, “What is ‘Feminism’?” (1906)

January 1, 2015 anarchisms_w4l2ii

WHAT IS “FEMINISM”? No French word is more often badly understood and falsely interpreted than the one that designates the ensemble of our demands. And I do not fear to affirm that some men, and […]

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 […]

God, Women and Proudhon — Eugène Stourm

March 20, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

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 […]

Feminism in Lyon before 1848: Eugénie Niboyet and Flora Tristan

March 19, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

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. […]

Open Letter on Libertarian Feminism

February 1, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Stephan Molyneux has recently graduated from shoddy to What is this I don’t even…, with a pair of videos on feminism, which he describes as “socialism with panties.” There is a hopeful part of me […]

Ezra Heywood to “The Revolution,”

July 6, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

This letter from Ezra H. Heywood is the first fruits of several days spent researching in Eugene, OR and Berkeley, CA, over the last couple of months. When I discovered that both André Léo and […]

Black and Red Feminism

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 […]

Proudhon’s critics

June 1, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Contr’un Revisited: [commentary coming soon] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] As I’ve mentioned, I’m working on assembling—and in some cases, translating—responses to Proudhon’s work, with particular emphasis on those responses […]

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 […]