- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword to the Beauvoir Series
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Problems for Women’s Literature
- Women of Letters
- Introduction
- Femininity: The Trap
- Introduction
- A Review of <i>The Elementary Structures of Kinship</i>
- Introduction
- It’s About Time Women Put a New Face on Love
- Preface to <i>Family Planning</i>
- Preface to <i>The Great Fear of Loving</i>
- The Condition of Women
- Preface to <i>The Sexually Responsive Woman</i>
- What Love Is—and Isn’t
- Love and Politics
- Introduction
- Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome
- Introduction
- The Situation of Women Today
- Introduction
- Women and Creativity
- Introduction
- Foreword to <i>History: A Novel</i>
- Introduction
- The Rebellious Woman—An Interview by Alice Schwartzer
- Response to Some Women and a Man
- Abortion and the Poor
- Beauvoir’s Deposition at the Bobigny Trial
- Preface to <i>Abortion: A Law on Trial. The Bobigny Affair</i>
- Introduction
- Everyday Sexism
- League of Women’s Rights Manifesto
- Preface to <i>Divorce in France</i>
- Introduction to <i>Women Insist</i>
- Preface to <i>Through Women’s Eyes</i>
- When All the Women of the World …
- My Point of View: An Outrageous Affair
- Preface to <i>Stories from the French Women’s Liberation Movement</i>
- The Urgency of an Anti-Sexist Law
- Press Conference of the International Committee for Women’s Rights
- Foreword to <i>Deception Chronicles: From the Women’s Liberation Movement to a Commercial Trademark</i>
- Women, Ads, and Hate
- Introduction
- Preface to <i>Mihloud</i>
- Contributors
- Index
- Books in The Beauvoir Series
- Production Credits
My Point of View: An Outrageous Affair
My Point of View: An Outrageous Affair
- Chapter:
- (p.258) My Point of View: An Outrageous Affair
- Source:
- Feminist Writings
- Author(s):
- Debbie Mann, Marybeth Timmermann
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
To the Presiding Judge of the 26th Chamber:
Having been informed by Marie Bataille of the situation which, after two years of proceedings, will take her before the criminal court, I wish to convey to you my point of view about this affair.
For a long time I have been an activist for voluntary motherhood. I believe that a woman has the right to choose to have or to not have a child, and in the first case, to choose the father of her child. Therefore I welcomed the recent law on abortion and before that, the 1972 law on filiation, which requires that the child be recognized in its biologic and sociologic reality....
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword to the Beauvoir Series
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Problems for Women’s Literature
- Women of Letters
- Introduction
- Femininity: The Trap
- Introduction
- A Review of <i>The Elementary Structures of Kinship</i>
- Introduction
- It’s About Time Women Put a New Face on Love
- Preface to <i>Family Planning</i>
- Preface to <i>The Great Fear of Loving</i>
- The Condition of Women
- Preface to <i>The Sexually Responsive Woman</i>
- What Love Is—and Isn’t
- Love and Politics
- Introduction
- Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome
- Introduction
- The Situation of Women Today
- Introduction
- Women and Creativity
- Introduction
- Foreword to <i>History: A Novel</i>
- Introduction
- The Rebellious Woman—An Interview by Alice Schwartzer
- Response to Some Women and a Man
- Abortion and the Poor
- Beauvoir’s Deposition at the Bobigny Trial
- Preface to <i>Abortion: A Law on Trial. The Bobigny Affair</i>
- Introduction
- Everyday Sexism
- League of Women’s Rights Manifesto
- Preface to <i>Divorce in France</i>
- Introduction to <i>Women Insist</i>
- Preface to <i>Through Women’s Eyes</i>
- When All the Women of the World …
- My Point of View: An Outrageous Affair
- Preface to <i>Stories from the French Women’s Liberation Movement</i>
- The Urgency of an Anti-Sexist Law
- Press Conference of the International Committee for Women’s Rights
- Foreword to <i>Deception Chronicles: From the Women’s Liberation Movement to a Commercial Trademark</i>
- Women, Ads, and Hate
- Introduction
- Preface to <i>Mihloud</i>
- Contributors
- Index
- Books in The Beauvoir Series
- Production Credits
