Marie-Reine Guindorf
Marie-Reine Guindorf (1812–1837) was a French feminist and socialist writer. She was co-editor of the first feminist newspaper, La Femme Libre, written and produced by women.[1][2][3]
Activism
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Marie-Reine Guindorf was a young laundry worker when she joined Saint-Simonism. She joined the activists around Claire Bazard. In August 1832, together with Désirée Véret, she founded La Femme libre in response to Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin's exclusion of women from decision-making among the Saint-Simonists.[4][5] With the second issue, the journal was renamed L'Apostolat des femmes.
This publication is not a speculation, but a work of faith in the freedom and community of women, after having deeply felt the slavery and inferiority that weigh on our sex. We raise our voices to call on women to come with us and claim the place we should have in the church, the state and the family. Our goal is to unite. Women, who until now have not had an organization that allowed them to dedicate themselves to something big, could only deal with small individual matters that left them in isolation. [...] We are Saint-Simonians, and that is precisely why we do not have an exclusionary attitude that rejects everything that one does not consider right for oneself.
Other women joined them, such as Suzanne Voilquin, who became co-editor from No. 6 onwards. The women's group that supported the publication formed an association called La Femme Nouvelle. Guindorf, who became increasingly involved with Fourierism, eventually left the newspaper. Voilquin took over management of the publication and changed the title to La Tribune des femmes.
Personal life
[edit]Marie-Reine married the young Saint-Simonist Flichi after returning from a mission to the Mediterranean led by Émile Barrault. In 1835, she gave birth to a boy who was placed with a wet nurse. The couple were able to live in an apartment thanks to the generosity of Flichi's parents, who have received an unexpected inheritance. At the end of 1836, Suzanne Voilquin lived in the young couple's apartment in the Rue Montmorency in Paris for six weeks, until January 8, 1837.
Notes
[edit]- ^ like all articles in the magazine, the article is signed with the first name only
References
[edit]- ^ Tamboukou, Maria (29 July 2018). "The joy of learning: Feminist materialist pedagogies and the freedom of education" (PDF). Educational Philosophy and Theory. 50 (9): 868–877. doi:10.1080/00131857.2017.1396213.
Marie-Reine Guindorf (1812-1836), a self-educated seamstress, who worked alongside Deroin in the editorial collective of the first autonomous feminist newspaper in France, wrote about the power of associations.
- ^ Laure Adler (1979). À l'aube du féminisme, les premières journalistes : 1830-1850 (in French). Paris: Payot & Rivages. ISBN 9782228914772.
- ^ Pilbeam, Pamela (August 2001). "Pink Lemonade Socialists". History Today. Vol. 51, no. 8. p. 46.
In 1832 two other young seamstresses who had become members, Marie-Reine Guindorf and Desiree Veret started a newspaper, La Femme Libre ... This was the first newspaper ever written by and for working women.
- ^ Harriet Branson Applewhite and Darline Gay Levy (1990), Women and Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 9780472064137
- ^ Jonathan Beecher (December 2003), "Désirée Véret, ou le passé retrouvé: Amour, mémoire, socialisme", Cahiers Charles Fourier
- ^ Marie-Reine (1832), "Apostolat des femmes (3rd part)", La femme libre, no. 1, p. 6
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