Feminism in 7 slogans and quotes

Feminism is a comic book written by Anne-Charlotte Husson and drawn by Thomas Mathieu.

During the 20th century, the feminist fight is still relevant despite significant advances. We will see that feminist icons have marked their time by leaving us their famous slogans. The book will also interpret for us, through drawings, the major stages of this movement.

Biography of the authors

Photographie de Anne-Charlotte Husson

Anne-Charlotte Husson is currently an author and translator. She has a PhD in language sciences and has been running a feminist blog called "Genre!" since 2011. She was a researcher at ENS Lyon and a professor of French at Cambridge in 2014.

Now, she teaches discourse analysis related to gender and feminism at the University of Paris 13. With a broad dissemination of academic knowledge, A-C Husson is becoming a passionate blogger by being a specialist in gender and social justice issues.

Photographie de Thomas Mathieu

THOMAS MATHIEU studied at Saint-Luc in Brussels where he practiced his passion: comics. Thus, he opened a blog since 2006 to publish some comics, intimate stories of couples and bad genre fiction. In 2013, he created Project Crocodiles, a tumblr that allowed him to become known in feminist circles and the general public.

His site | His blog | His tumblr

Why "Crocodile Project?" Simply because her real-life stories related to ordinary sexism and street harassment where men are represented by crocodiles. That's why he has dedicated the last few years to this tumblr by illustrating, for each of his comics, everyday situations of sexism towards women.

Summary

Image de la couverture du livre Le Féminisme, de Anne Charlotte Husson , suivis d’un extrait. Cette image redirige à Amazon.

This work analyzes feminism through seven chapters. These chapters correspond to these 7 famous slogans and quotes:

1. The woman has the right to go on the scaffold, she must also have the right to go to the podium, Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Citizen, article 10.
2. The private is political.
3. One is not born a woman, one becomes one, Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, volume 2.
4. White women listen!
5. Our desires make disorder
6. Feminism has never killed anyone, machismo kills every day, Benoîte Groult.
7. Don't liberate me, I'll take care of it!

hus, it is a popularization work aiming at explaining the history and the concepts of feminism. Moreover, it is the first book of A-C Husson. However, it has become a reference and has been translated into several languages. The book presents different personalities and key concepts of feminism. For example, passing by icons such as Simone de Beauvoir, Benoîte Groult, Olympe de Gouges or Angela Davis. Thus, this comic book traces the history of feminism. Through events and slogans, we read about violence against women, sexual harassment and the intersectionality of a patriarchal society.

Memorables extracts

This comic contains an incipit, "FOREWORD" which describes in several parts the birth of feminism according to the authors. They ended their speeches by proposing a potential continuation of these fights? How will society evolve?

The authors sought to demonstrate the inequality between men and women in society. They will illustrate this inequality through the Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Citizen published in 1791 by Olympe de Gouges.

Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Citizen published in 1791 by Olympe de Gouges

This one aims at reaching a true universalism. To do this, she sexualized the law by transforming the article "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights" by "The woman is free and remains equal to the man in rights. Distinctions can only be based on the common good". This transformation shows that the law implicitly favors men. The whole of the articles of this declaration restore the balance by introducing articles relating only to the women.

Moreover, the book evokes the steps to obtain the right to vote for women. The women having no political power will demonstrate: "The French woman wants to vote, the opposition of the senate must stop". This ideology is far from having disappeared. While feminists claimed access to suffrage and political representation during the 19th and early 20th century. In France, it was not until 1944 that these rights were obtained.

Even today, these issues continue to be debated and women’s access to the podium is not self-evident. Lionel Lumbreso tweeted in 2015: "Politics is first and foremost a matter for men for objective reasons, even if a minority of women are capable of it.

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