Éditions des Femmes

Éditions des Femmes grew out of the international women in print movement, an effort by second-wave feminists to create autonomous communications networks created by and for women. The statutes of the SARL Women (a company composed of 21 members in equal parts) were filed in December 1972. The first manager was Yvonne Boissarie. Marie-Claude Grumbach (December 11, 1940 - 1 May 2001) succeeded Boissarie in June 1974. In 1979, shares were sold in favor of members Fouque, Sylvina Boissonnas and Marie-Claude Grumbach, which "represents a significant change; the equality that was the basis of the LLC is broken.".

In 1980, Antoinette Fouque launched a collection of audio books: Among the famous performers who created the audiobooks, are the actors Isabelle Adjani, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, Nathalie Baye, Charles Berling, Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Moreau, among others) and writers (Yves Bonnefoy, Jacques Derrida, Marguerite Duras, Julien Gracq, Nathalie Sarraute, and others.

The first bookstore "Women" was inaugurated in Paris on May 30, 1974 at 68 rue des Saints-Pères which transferred to rue de Seine in 1981, where it includes an art gallery hosted by Marie Dedieu, which exhibits artists such as Sonia Delaunay, Milvia Maglione Françoise Martinelli, Kate Millett, Michele Knoblauch, Sophie Clavel, Tina Modotti, Claude Batho, Ilse Bing, Louise Nevelson, June Wayne, Popy Moreni, Mary Orensanz, Colette Alvarez-Urbajtel This bookshop-gallery closed in 1999, and reopened in rue Jacob, accompanied by a "women's space". In 1976, a women's bookstore was opened in Marseille, and another in Lyon in 1977, but closed thereafter.

Éditions des Femmes publishes French and foreign authors, as well as "writings of yesterday". The different collections are oriented towards the human sciences (psychoanalysis, sociology, philosophy, history), fiction, biography, correspondences, poetry, theater, narrative (testimonials, memoirs), and addresses multiple themes: the feminine condition, lesbianism, feminism, and women's history, among others. Early bestsellers included "Hosto-Blues" by Victoria Thérame and "On the Side of Little Girls" by Elena Gianini Belotti, translated from Italian. Between 1974 and 1979, the writer Hélène Cixous published eight titles of fiction: Souffles; Portrait of Dora; Party; Angst; Wedding Preparations Beyond the Abyss; Oedipus' name, Song of the Forbidden Body; Anankè and Live Orange. In 1993 the publisher released "Catherine Deneuve, Selected Portraits", a volume of photographs of the actress benefiting the fight against AIDS. It was edited by Antoinette Fouque and Jean-Pierre Lavoignat for Studio Magazine. In November 2013, the publisher issued the book Le Dictionnaire universel des créatrices, edited by Béatrice Didier, Antoinette Fouque and Mireille Calle-Gruber.

Non-exhaustive list of authors:

The women's group also published newspapers: Women's Daily (irregular publication from November 1974 to June 1976), Women in Motion magazine monthly (December 1977 to January 1979) and weekly (101 issues with interruption, October 1979) to July 1982).