Choisir la cause des femmes

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Choisir la cause des femmes (also Choisir for short ) is a women's rights organization based in Paris , France . It's a non-governmental organization .

history

In the early 1970s, the fight against the abortion law of 1920 intensified in France, which made abortion and the promotion and sale of contraceptives a criminal offense. On April 5, 1971, the Le Nouvel Observateur published the public declaration Un appel de 343 femmes (also known as Le Manifeste des 343 Salopes ), in which 343 women known “J'ai avorté” (I had an abortion). The signatories included the writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir , the actress Jeanne Moreau and the writers Marguerite Duras , Colette Audry and Françoise Sagan .

In July 1971 the association Choisir la cause des femmes was founded. Founding members included Simone de Beauvoir, lawyer Gisèle Halimi , writer Christiane Rochefort , biologist and writer Jean Rostand, and biochemist Jacques Monod . Simone de Beauvoir was the first female president, she was replaced by Gisèle Halimi in 1981. Original goals of the association were the abolition of the abortion law of 1920, free and free contraception and a free legal defense for women who were sued for abortion.

In 1972, Choisir la cause des femmes took over the defense of a sixteen-year-old girl in Bobigny who had had an abortion after being raped. In the following years there was a change of opinion in France, which in 1975 led to a revision of the abortion law of 1920 with the Veil Act .

The goals of Choisir la cause des femmes have become broader and now concern women's rights in general, such as the fight against rape, physical and moral violence, the fight against discrimination against women, for professional equality and against discrimination in the world of work and the fight for better representation of women Women in society.

Choisir la cause des femmes is represented with advisory status at the United Nations and a member of the global network Abolition 2000 for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Publications

  • Giselè Halimi (Ed.): Le program commun des femmes. Choisir la cause des femmes. Grasset, Paris 1978, ISBN 2-246-00572-8 .
  • What is the president for the women? Résponses de François Mitterrand. Gallimard , Paris 1981, OCLC 9324101 .
  • Giselè Halimi: Femmes. Moitié de la terre, moitié du pouvoir. Gallimard, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-07-073789-6 .
  • Le procès de Bobigny. Sténotype intégrale des débats du Tribunal de Bobigny, November 8, 1972. Gallimard, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-07-077515-1 .

The organization published a journal, titled Choisir from 1973 to 1976 and Choisir la cause des femmes from 1977 to 2011 . Fondé par Simone de Beauvoir et Gisèle Halimi appeared. The last issue so far appeared in May 2011 (No. 113).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miriam Gebhardt : Alice in No Man's Land. How the German women's movement lost women. DVA, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-421-04411-2 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  2. ↑ Simone de Beauvoir 1908–1986 in the Living Museum project
  3. ↑ Le procès de Bobigny on the website of the Gallimard publishing house
  4. ^ List of Accredited Non-Governmental Organizations who were Represented at the Fourth World Conference on Women
  5. ↑ A2000 Members in Europe
  6. ↑ OCLC 70737504
  7. ↑ OCLC 762652049
  8. ↑ Entry in SUDOC
  9. ↑ Issue 113 of the journal (PDF; 3.4 MB)