Her mother was a teacher, a child of aCarlist revolutionary. Her father was ananarcho-syndicalist and the secretary general of an insurance company. Both of her parents were members of the religiousSillon movement.[3] When she was at the age of 16, theSpanish Civil War broke out. Later, she would express her feelings in this period of her life with the titleChienne de Jeunesse.[citation needed]
A member of theFrench Communist Party from 1945 to 1957, in 1971, she co-founded theFront homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire (FHAR), a homosexual revolutionary movement.[3] Also that year, she signed theManifesto of the 343 declaring she had an abortion.[4] She is considered the founder of the ecological and social movement of ecofeminism.[5] She created the Ecology-Feminism (Ecologie-Feminisme) Center in Paris in 1972. In 1974 she published her bookLe Féminisme ou la mort (Feminism or Death) where she first coined the termecofeminism. In the book, she speaks of a special connection women share with nature and encourages women's environmental activism. She citestoxic masculinity as the cause of population growth, pollution, and other destructive influences on the environment. Many scholars shared d'Eaubonne's view on women's inherent connection to nature. These scholars includeSherry Ortner,Rosemary Radford Ruether,Susan Griffin, andCarolyn Merchant.[6]
Following her motto, "Not a day without a line", Françoise d'Eaubonne wrote more than 50 works, fromColonnes de l'âme (poetry, 1942) toL'Évangile de Véronique (essay, 2003). Her historical novelComme un vol de gerfauts (1947) was translated into English asA Flight of Falcons, and extracts from her essayFeminism or Death appeared in the 1974 anthologyNew French Feminisms. She also wrotescience fiction novels, likeL'échiquier du temps andRêve de feu,Le sous-marin de l'espace.
^abNaudier, Delphine (2 April 2009),"EAUBONNE (d') Françoise",PISTON d’EAUBONNE Françoise, Marie-Thérèse, dite (in French), Paris: Maitron/Editions de l'Atelier,archived from the original on 11 April 2021, retrieved4 May 2022
^Gates, B. T. (1 July 1996). "A Root of Ecofeminism: Ecoféminisme".Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.3 (1):7–16.doi:10.1093/isle/3.1.7.
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