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> The Tyranny of Pigtails > Girl Thing or Boy Thing? > Dolls Are for Girls > A Ballerina Does Not Wear Glasses > Normal People > My Sister Is a Lunkhead Young Essays & > The Braid, or Lalita’s Journey > Super Go-Getter Adult P 40 - 48 Humanities Children's > What Are You Playing? > Meteor > Rose’s Rage P 61 - 78 > Girls Can Do It, Too! / Boys Can Do It, Too! > Felines > I Can Hear Them Coming For Us P 4 - 27 > Things I Do with Dad / Things I Do with Mom > The Taste for Kisses > Hyphenated > Allah and Femininity Books > A (Super) Princess’ Guide > Standing Tall at Night > Revenge of the Princesses > The Curse of Girlhood > Mission: Princess in Distress... Right? to Survival in Hostile Settings > How Many Steps to the Moon > Feminists: Who Are They? > Lift Your Head Up and Look Around > Princess Kevin > Someday My Prince Will Come… Or Not > Rosa the Bold > Memoirs of a Unicorn > Impostor Symdrome > No Means No! Fighting > A Dream of Freedom > Who Am I? What Am I? > P.O.V. - Point of View > The Triangle and the Hexagon: Sexual Harassment > Papa’s Partner > Golden Girl > Bruises Reflections on Black Identity > Calamity Jean > Leon of a Thousand Questions > Georges, the World, and Me > Her Name Was Ab Stenson > Capital as Genus: > Underwear Day / I’m Wearing Panties > Super Daddy! How Families Reproduce Inequalities > The True Story of Julie, > Little Dancers: The Explosive Dance-Off! > Sociology of Gender Who Had a Boy’s Shadow > GOAL! An Epic Match > The Rules of the Game > All of Us! > My Father’s Mask > Transitions > Yoohoo, Prince Charming? > Mr. Butterfly Literature & > Let’s End with Sexism! > Ten Women Who Changed the World > Teaming Up Is Taking Turns: A Hen Tale > Clit Revolution: A Manual for Feminist Activism > Pioneers > Teaming up Is Tolerance: A Hen Tale Fiction P 49 - 60 > Gravidanza: Feminology II > Equal Rights for Boys and Girls? > A Declaration of the Rights of Girls > The Sexual Workload Good Idea! > In Case of Siege > 77 - Seine et Marne > Right Type > Soul of a Witch > Awesome Adele > We Are Family > Mercy, Mary, Patty > Not Like All the Other Women > No One Is Born Submissive, in the Land of Zanytales > Last of the Cowboys > Conception and Other > The Little Girl on the Iceberg They Become That Way > Twiggy > Salome and the women who spoke out: Misdemeanors > The Witch Complex > Bodies in Abstinence > 40 Incredible Women finding your place > Activistas > Girl > Women and Literature, A Cultural History > Polka’s Huge Arms > Salome and the women who spoke out: > Dead-End Voices > Choosing What They See > Unconditional Equality > Singing Anna standing up for yourself > The Body Is a Mirage > My Dearest Sisters > When the Brain Becomes Male > Hector, the Astounding Strongman > Curiosa, Chattie, and Flirtitia > Dominique > The Unseen Hordes > Turning Points > Countless Suns > With Bastien > A History of Feminism > With Bare Hands > Little Table, Set Yourself! from Ancient Greece to the Present Era > Slutty Red Lips > Odd Couplings > History of Sexualities Comic Books & > Right After Love > The Unfaithful > Love’s Pitfalls: A History of Breaking Up > Too Much Love > World History of Feminism P 28 - 39 > Simone de Beauvoir Graphic > It’s My Body! > Women in Science > Virgin > I’d Never Have Made It This Far If… > Camel Joe > Gisèle and Béatrice > Sisters in Arms: Women and Political Violence > AMA: Breath of a Woman > Crocodiles Illustrated > Words and Women > ELZA - Whenever, Cupid! > Feminism in Seven Quotes and Slogans > Rebels > Evil Witches > Giant P 79 - 82 > The True History of Women > Baby 2000 > Emma G. Wildford Non-Fiction > The Tyranny of Gender > Rose Season > Philippina Lomar’s Thrilling Cases > Women of the World, Unite! > Troublemakers > Western Privilege > Skin of a Man > Anuki > Make Way for Women! > The Girl Who Said “Fuck It!” > Just Men > I Just Had to Tell You > Why Aren’t Men and Women Equal Yet? > Kama Sutra > Chic! > No One’s Born a Woman, > Crocodiles Are Everywhere > Miss Charity > You Aren’t Born a Feminist, You Become One > My Name Is Inna: A Ukrainian Childhood > Barriers You Become One > Touché! A SELECTION OF FRENCH TITLES GENDER, SEXISM & STEREOTYPES
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ABC Melody Glénat
Mission Dragon - Princesse en détresse Princesse Kevin MISSION: PRINCESS PRINCESS KEVIN IN DISTRESS... RIGHT? Kevin is a princess. Deal with it! Kevin is a princess. For the school’s masked ball, his sis- When a princess disappears, a dragon and a fairy team ter has lent him her dress and high heels, and his mom up to save her. But did she really need saving at all? her makeup. Now he really looks like a princess! And Doug the dragon is flying along, daydreaming, when he princesses look so beautiful that surely it must be fun to crashes headfirst into Princess Lucille’s grumpy fairy be one. Or is it? A funny, lighthearted picture book about godmother. No time to argue, though: a princess needs the joys and sorrows of being what you’ve always wanted saving! She was kidnapped by a knight, the fairy god- to be – or at least getting a chance to try it out first. mother claims. The next thing poor Doug knows, he’s Juliette Valléry, being dragged off on an adventure. The thing is, Doug 9782344026700 / 2018 / 32 pages / 11,00 € can’t stand knights! And the would-be rescuers might Michaël Escoffier, Anna Aparicio Catala have misread the whole situation... Roland Garrigue 9782368362181 / 2020 (forthcoming) Rights sold 48 pages / 13,50 € English (World), Spanish (World), Catalan, Chinese (Traditional), Italian, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil) FIND OUT MORE > 5 international auctions after Bologna 2019
Laurie Jesson [email protected] Étienne Bonnin [email protected]
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Non c’est non ! Contre calamity jeanne le harcèlement sexuel NO MEANS NO! CALAMITY JEAN A book about learning to accept yourself and other FIGHTING SEXUAL people just the way they are, for readers who’ve had their fill of “perfect little girls”!
HARASSMENT Calamity Jean isn’t like other little girls. She hates pink, but climbing trees and playing Bigfoot? That’s her jam! A book of resources to help teens better understand And when she has to get all dolled up, she just pulls on one of the great issues of our era. a pair of cowboy boots underneath her pretty dress! But The issues of sexual harassment and sexual violence are today is her birthday, and for her new friend Lily-Rose, at the center of a heated debate as our society comes who’s dressed up like a fairy, she’s going to outdo herself. Nadia Leïla Aïssaoui, to understand the extent to which we lack awareness Why, her very own mother isn’t going to believe her eyes! of other human beings in our relationships. This book Marie-Ève de Grave, Édith Carron lists and explains words and expressions relating to Victoria Dorche 9782330124502 / 2019 / 48 pages / 15,90 € harassment for teenage readers. Here, teenagers will FIND OUT MORE find advice and recommendations for further reading: FIND OUT MORE > 2,500 copies sold books and websites to help them not only identify and > 2,500 copies sold manage uncomfortable situations, but also move away from stereotypes. 9782330125752 / 2019 / 112 pages / 14,00 €
Johanna Brock [email protected] Elsa Giroux [email protected]
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Le Rouergue Jeunesse Éditions Thierry Magnier
Le jour du slip / Je porte la culotte Histoire de Julie qui avait une ombre de garçon UNDERWEAR DAY / THE TRUE STORY I’M WEARING PANTIES OF JULIE, WHO HAD With great humor and sensitivity, these two hilarious tales explore the relationships between girls and boys A BOY’S SHADOW beyond the stereotypical differences, painting an affectionate portrait of children ages 7-10. An extraordinary picture book and a landmark in children’s literature, first published forty years ago This book can be read front to back or back to front, invi- and now more contemporary than ever. ting readers to explore new perspectives. Anne Percin’s Underwear Day tells the story of a girl named Corinne “You are unbearable! You’re always saying mean things, who wakes up to find herself transformed into a boy falling down, and getting up to mischief.” Julie’s parents Anne Percin, Thomas Gornet named Corentin! In Thomas Gornet’s I’m Wearing Panties, Christian Bruel, Anne Bozellec spend so much time reproaching her for being a tom- Corentin has to deal with everyone calling him... Corinne! boy that one morning her shadow turns into the shadow These sidesplitting bodyswapping stories help children of a boy, who mimics and caricatures her every move. see the world from a different gender at an age when Rights sold At first she finds her alter-ego amusing, but eventually a sense of gender roles is developing rapidly under the Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish she starts doubting her own identity. But how do you get influences of adult behavior and the school environment. rid of a shadow that isn’t your own? 9782812604966 / 2013 / 64 pages / 6,50 € 9782364745018 / 2014 / 54 pages / 16,50 €
Lucilla Faedda [email protected] Lucilla Faedda [email protected]
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Amaterra Amaterra
Nous ! Hou ! Hou ! Prince Charmant ? ALL OF US! YOOHOO, “We are all different. Yet whether boy or girl, we are PRINCE CHARMING? almost all the same inside.” A clever and playful board book about the human body for the youngest readers. An interactive choose-your-own-adventure book. Help the two princesses find a happier ending A playful board book about the human body, with cutouts, than merely meeting Prince Charming! vivid colors, and clever humor to help children learn more about themselves and others. A humorous picture book about two little princesses ready for adventure. 9782368561140 / 2016 / 36 pages / 12,50 € When Princesses Rose and Josephine decide to venture forth from their castle, Rose wants to go one way and Sylvie Misslin, Josephine another. Which way will you choose? Hector Dexet Readers can decide whether to splash through a rushing Amandine Piu river or nap in a meadow; enter a dark cave or stay the course; open a cobwebbed castle door or follow a sweet Rights sold Rights sold aroma. There are many paths to take, but only two will Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, English lead the princesses to a happy ending. And that is defini- Italian, Greek, Polish, Spanish (World), Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, tely NOT meeting Prince Charming! Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian 9782362663567 / 2016 / 44 pages / 14,90 €
Florence Pariente [email protected] Florence Pariente [email protected]
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Auzou Auzou
10 femmes qui ont changé Pionnières l’histoire du monde TEN WOMEN WHO PIONEERS Discover the stories, accomplishments, and adventures CHANGED THE WORLD of 50 brilliant women from throughout history! This non-fiction book highlights 50 wonderful women An ode to powerful and extraordinary women who have shaped history all around the world. Featuring throughout history, with flaps to lift! figures both famous and forgotten: A great way to bring A non-fiction picture book featuring 40 flaps that tell the everyone back into the spotlight! A terrific gift to inspire stories of 10 different inspiring women who changed the young readers. world. Features well-known artists, scientists, politicians, Ages 9 and up. athletes, and much more! 9782733872055 / 2010 / 204 pages / 19,95 € Jean-Michel Billioud, Ages 6 and up. COLLECTIVE, Kaa 9782733863893 / 2018 / 20 pages / 19,95 € Kaa
Tatiana Joly [email protected] Tatiana Joly [email protected]
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Égalité filles/garçons pas bête Mortelle Adèle au pays des contes défaits EQUAL RIGHTS FOR BOYS AWESOME ADELE AND GIRLS? IN THE LAND GOOD IDEA! OF ZANYTALES A book to help children see past stereotypes by recognizing, respecting, and accepting differences. Ready for another amazing adventure with Awesome Adele? Join her in the Land of Zanytales! Based on questions from actual children, this book explores the differences between genders: What is a boy? Awesome Adele finds herself transported to the Land of What is a girl? What are their roles in life? How is sexual Zanytales, a fantabulous world where anyone can make identity constructed? Is gender a social construction or Stéphanie Duval, their dreams come true! How will she survive this weird a natural phenomenon? Mr Tan, Diane Le Feyer and cutesy world, where princes take it easy while mean Sandra Laboucarie, This book will help children get to know themselves better, princesses prank each other to rack up smiley points and Pascal Lemaître respect others, and accept every individual’s uniqueness, become the heroines of their own Zanytales? It all seems all while doing away with deeply rooted clichés! FIND OUT MORE very simple to Adele: take out the competition and write With double-page profiles of men and women who have > 150,000 copies sold in France a new kind of Zanytale for girls AND boys alike! Rights sold fought for gender equality. Castilian, Catalan, Korean 9791027607747 / 2019 / 112 pages / 12,90 € FIND OUT MORE 9782747092036 / 2019 / 72 pages / 14,90 € > 4,000 copies sold in France
Pauline Armand [email protected] Pauline Armand [email protected]
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Brindille Femmes, 40 combattantes pour l’égalité TWIGGY 40 INCREDIBLE WOMEN
Just because you’re skinny as a twig doesn’t mean Discover outstanding women who made history with you can’t stand up for yourself! their courage, determination, knowledge, or talent.
Her name is Pavlina, but everyone calls her Twiggy. Sure, Freedom of speech, the right to an education, the right to her house is full of men. Big men. Square men. So of vote, contraception and abortion rights, rights for black course Pavlina sticks out. You’d think the only girl in a women, protesting rape and sexual assault, fighting for family of boys would get spoiled. But nope! the rights of LGBTQ women... 40 female figures (Virginia Since she has a hard time making herself heard in her Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Pina Bausch, Angela Davis, all-male family, Brindille decides to drop piano lessons Oprah Winfrey, and more) from diverse fields. Find out and take up... boxing! who they are, what they’re like, how they express them- selves, their struggles, their successes, their words, and Rémi Courgeon 9782745960672 / 2012 / 32 pages / 16,95 € Isabelle Motrot, their landmark achievements. Véronique Joffre 9782075100373 / 2018 / 96 pages / 9,90 € Rights sold Chinese, Polish FIND OUT MORE > 8,000 copies sold in France > Chrétien de Troyes Award for Rémi Courgeon, 2013
Pauline Armand [email protected] So Taniuchi [email protected]
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Biscoto Biscoto
Les gros bras de Polka Anna qui chante POLKA’S HUGE ARMS SINGING ANNA
With her fun, smart-alecky, pop art and writing style, This beautifully illustrated feminist tale is a subtle Émilie Gleason gives us a new take on that age-old paean to the power of culture, liberation, youthful story, coming of age. hope, and sisterly solidarity.
Nobody’s stronger than Polka! But when she tries to give Once upon a time, there was a terrible tyrant who so some flowers to her best friend, they end up all smashed doted on his daughter Judith that he kept her locked up. At school, all the other kids make fun of her, and up in a tower, where she grew very, very bored. To keep recess ends in a fight. Polka’s had enough! She decides her company, the king had all the little girls in his king- to go off and save some endangered beavers. But can she dom kidnapped. And so begins the story of Judith, a sad stop the rising floodwaters, even with the help of her new princess, and Anna, who teaches her what it means to friends? With her fun, smart-alecky pop art and writing be free. Singing Anna is a feast for the eyes, part illu- Émilie Gleason style, Émilie Gleason gives a new take on that age-old Sonia Paoloni, Éloïse Rey minated manuscript, part modern fable. The bright and story, coming of age, and reminds readers that only by lively colors, bold layout, and beautiful production values loving ourselves do we bring out the best in us. all enhance sumptuous prose. A wonderful storybook FIND OUT MORE that is an ode to freedom… and song! 9791092119855 / 2018 / 64 pages / 14,00 € > “This beautifully illustrated feminist tale is a subtle paean to the power 9791092119749 / 2017 / 64 pages / 18,00 € of culture, liberation, youthful hope, and sisterly solidarity.” Causette
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Hector, l’homme La dictature des petites couettes extraordinairement fort HECTOR, THE ASTOUNDING THE TYRANNY OF PIGTAILS Gabriel wants to be a part of the fashion show too, but STRONGMAN the girls won’t let him! Boys just aren’t pretty enough! Olga, Ana, and Sophie are getting ready for a fashion Hector, the Astounding Strongman, sets up show. Pretty dresses, pigtails, and spangles are a must. his trailer off to one side, far from prying eyes. But when Gabriel and the Cat want to be in it too, every- For he has a secret… one gets annoyed. But... what if there was a beauty Capable of the most incredible feats in the ring, Hector, contest to settle the issue? The war is on between the the strongest of all the circus performers, hides his gentle boys and the girls: who will be the prettiest? passion deep in the privacy of his trailer. After his act, he A clever fable about the dictates of fashion, which affect hurries there so he can knit for his beloved. A tale that even the youngest among us. Magali Le Huche weaves together poetry, humor, and a lot of love! Ilya Green 9782278077946 / 2014 / 48 pages / 11,10 € 9782278059669 / 2008 / 48 pages / 12,90 € Rights sold Rights sold Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Italian, Catalan, Spanish (World) Spanish (World) FIND OUT MORE > 15,000 copies sold in France > Animated film adaptation based on the Latin American edition
Ieva Vaitkeviciute [email protected] Ieva Vaitkeviciute [email protected]
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L’école des loisirs Pastel
Truc de fille ou de garçon ? Les poupées c’est pour les filles GIRL THING DOLLS ARE FOR GIRLS OR BOY THING? “Don’t worry, it’s just a phase!” A young boy get a present from his aunt: a handmade Gender stereotypes addressed with common sense doll. He names her Cindy, and she never leaves his side. in a deliberately light and poetic tone. His father says it’s just a phase, but at the toy store, Playing soccer. Crying. Dancing. Driving a truck or flying he asks for a stroller… a plane. Conquering the world, discovering new things. Taking care of the kids, changing diapers, making dinner. 9782211213561 / 2013 / 74 pages / 10,00 € Anyone can do any of these things, girls and boys alike. Just know yourself. Follow your own passions. Don’t let gender stand in your way! Clémentine du Pontavice Ludovic Flamant, 9782211239349 / 2019 / 48 pages / 6,00 € Jean-Luc Englebert Rights sold Rights sold Italian Catalan, German, Spanish
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Une danseuse ne porte pas de lunettes Les gens normaux A BALLERINA DOES NOT NORMAL PEOPLE WEAR GLASSES An essential book promoting curiosity and open-mindedness. Daisy is going to have to dance without her glasses… During recess, Logan told Zita that she was not normal. Daisy can hardly believe it. Mr. Golovine, has asked her to But what does it mean, to be normal? dance in his ballet in the end-of-year show. And Pauline Zita is determined to find out. de Belleville, the head of the famous Tutu & Co. School, will be there. 9782877679954 / 2019 / 32 pages / 13,50 € But there’s a hitch: Daisy is going to have to dance without her glasses… Claudine Colozzi, 9782877679619 / 2018 / 40 pages / 13,20 € Michaël Escoffier, Elsa Oriol Laure Monloubou Rights sold Rights sold Chinese (Simplified), Italian Italian, Korean, Turkish
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Ma sœur est une brute épaisse La Tresse ou le voyage de Lalita MY SISTER IS A LUNKHEAD THE BRAID, OR LALITA’S A funny, affectionate picture book for siblings JOURNEY of all sorts! A sensitive treatment of the fate that awaits girls Now, me, I’m a big brother. And I’ve got a kid sister. My and women in India, especially those born into lower favorite thing when it’s nice out is sitting in the cool grass castes. in the shade of a tree and reading a book. That is, when my sister’s not around… A beautiful, luminous children’s adaptation of a portion When all you want is some peace and quiet, it’s not easy of the international bestseller The Braid. Young Lalita being big brother to a little sister as mischievous as she and her mother Smita are born into the lowest, or “Un- is energetic – that is, when she’s not outright terrifying. touchable” caste: the Dalits. They must travel across ALICE DE NUSSY, India in an astonishing and magnificently illustrated tale 9782246860730 / 2018 / 32 pages / 15,00 € LAETITIA COLOMBANI, of life, rebellion, faith, and hope that introduces readers SANDRINE BONINI CLÉMENCE POLLET to such issues as social class, the plight of women, and access to education. Rights sold Danish, Italian, Spanish (Spain) 9782246816331 / 2018 / 56 pages / 14,90 € FIND OUT MORE > 26,000 copies sold for the original novel, The Braid (Grasset, 2017)
Christian Voges [email protected] Christian Voges [email protected]
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Super Fonceuse À quoi tu joues ? SUPER GO-GETTER WHAT ARE YOU PLAYING?
A smart, brave, and clever superheroine! Tired of preconceptions like “Boys don’t dance” Super Go-Getter, a.k.a. Revenge of the Girls! and “Girls don’t play soccer”? Open the flaps of this book, and spring from surprise to surprise! Goliath, a strapping young ram, deems no task worthy of his great strength. There’s nothing special at all about Everyone knows boys don’t dance, jump rope, throw tea his sister Maguette, but she does all the chores. One parties, and most of all, cry. And girls don’t play soccer, morning, Goliath finally gets a mission worthy of him: build things, or fly planes, much less rockets. But none Tentacula the Terrible has just landed in their backyard! of that is true! Hiding under flaps are series of photos from real-life 9782844554017 / 2016 / 32 pages / 12,20 € news stories that thumb their nose at such absurd pre- JEAN LEROY, conceptions, disproving them with facts and humour, so MARIE-SABINE ROGER, they won’t limit young readers’ imaginations. A refreshing BÉRANGÈRE DELAPORTE ANNE SOL must-read, ages 3 and up. FIND OUT MORE 9782377310692 / 2009 / 26 pages / 15,90 € > 11,500 copies sold > Non-Fiction Sorcières Award, 2010
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Les filles peuvent le faire aussi / Ce que je fais avec Papa / Les garçons peuvent le faire aussi Ce que je fais avec Maman GIRLS CAN DO IT, TOO! / THINGS I DO WITH DAD! / BOYS CAN DO IT, TOO! THINGS I DO WITH MOM!
A 2-sided picture book that encourages children A 2-sided picture book about sharing moments to be free to dare and explore. to remember with Mom and Dad.
A terrific picture book about equality and freedom! There are so many things to do with mom and dad! Bake “Soccer isn’t for girls! Dolls aren’t for boys! Boys don’t pastries, eat pancakes, play hide-and-seek, paint your cry! Girls don’t like to get dirty !” You’ve probably heard room, or even ride a bike! Even though mom and dad people saying these things on TV, at home, or even have grown-up things to do, you know they always have SOPHIE GOURION, school. But they’re all wrong! It doesn’t matter if you’re AMÉLIE ANTOINE, time for you! A 2-sided picture book with 2 different a boy or a girl: YOU CAN DO ANYTHING! covers and 2 stories inside: one featuring mom and the ISABELLE MAROGER ISABELLE MAROGER other featuring dad. 9782324022609 / 2019 / 48 pages / 12,95 € Rights sold 9782324025747 / 2020 / 48 pages / 12,95 € Catalan, Chinese (Traditional), Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish (Castilian), Turkish
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Le Guide de survie des (super) princesses Un jour mon prince viendra (ou pas) en milieu hostile A (SUPER) PRINCESS’ SOMEDAY MY PRINCE GUIDE TO SURVIVAL WILL COME… OR NOT A totally fresh and ironic take on the classic story IN HOSTILE SETTINGS of searching for a prince with a charmingly caustic and uncompromising heroine. So… think you know everything about princesses? Once upon a time, a princess kept waiting for her Prince Think again! Charming in vain. Her mother told her to be patient and Do you really think Sleeping Beauty slept for a 100 years, make herself pretty for the big day. But when the day or an ordinary red apple fooled Snow White? Our seven finally came, what a disappointment the prince turned Sandra Nelson, courageous and stubborn princesses know what to do Sandra Nelson, out to be! The princess realized his sole wish was to in extreme situations and would never let themselves make her a housewife. How awful! So she decided to Jules be taken advantage of so easily. They’ve planned for eve- Rémi Saillard take matters into her own hands. She set off to have her rything, so that they’ll never lose the upper hand! This own adventures. She caught a dragon, fought an ogre, Rights sold Survival Guide, filled with anecdotes, surprising revela- even won a tournament! Who needs a prince anyway? Spanish (World) tions, and 1001 super-princess secrets, will let you in on the real story at last… 9782013978989 / 2016 / 40 pages / 12,00 € 9782017087038 / 2019 / 80 pages / 14,00 €
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Un rêve de liberté L’amoureux de papa A DREAM OF FREEDOM PAPA’S PARTNER
France, 1965: women get the right to work without An illustrated chapter book about love between people their husband’s permission. of the same gender, for ages 7-8.
Claire has to move; she’s leaving Paris. She’ll have to Amandine is a little girl who lives a well-ordered life. Her change schools, adapt, make new friends. Her mother parents are divorced but get along well. But one day, her is a doctor, the first woman to practice medicine in their father introduces her to his partner: none other than new city. What a challenge! But all Claire dreams about is her teacher, Jean. Amandine has trouble accepting her being a cheerleader, like her best friend Sylvie. father’s homosexuality. For a while, her father decides to break things off with Jean so as not to damage his 9782917045428 / 2017 / 44 pages / 15,80 € relationship with his daughter. But with help from her Marion le Hir de Fallois, Ingrid Chabbert, mother and her friends, Amandine comes around. “Love is love, wherever you find it.” She and her friends then Solenn Larnicol Lauranne Quentric plot to get Jean and her father back together. Rights sold 9782917045442 / 2017 / 48 pages / 7,30 € Korean
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Léon Millequestions Mon super papa LEON OF A THOUSAND SUPER DADDY! QUESTIONS A short text full of humor and a conclusion full of love, beautifully conveyed in Kei Lam’s luminous A pirate without a hook?! illustrations
Everyone knows all pirates are born with a pegleg, an All children think their dads are the best! It’s only natural. eyepatch, and a hook for a hand. All pirates, except Leon! This book full of love and humour features dads from two Instead of a pointy-tipped hook, he has a handsome cur- points of view: through their child’s eyes, and how they ved question mark with a rounded end. But why? That’s actually are in reality. just the first in a lifetime of adventures and above all, questions that await our little hero. 9782806310743 / 2020 (forthcoming) 7 spreads / 9,95 € Antonis Papatheodoulou 9782806310057 / 2019 / 32 pages / 12,95 € kei lam
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Les Livres du Dragon d’Or Les Livres du Dragon d’Or
Graines de danseurs - Une battle Objectif champion - Un match épique explosive LITTLE DANCERS: GOAL! AN EPIC MATCH Put your cleats on and join this team for a first volume THE EXPLOSIVE full of soccer! An original series for soccer fans! Join Jade, her brother DANCE-OFF! Thomas, Medhi, and Matéo as their team rises through the rankings! At their new school, Jade and Thomas put The first volume of a series about dancing that’s together a team for their city’s soccer club. Their goal: to unlike any other! win the local championship, something their city’s never Victoiria, Effia, Lou, and Max all share a single passion: won before! dancing! But they’re divided: some prefer ballet, and Ludivine Irolla, others hip hop, improvisation, or contemporary dance. But 9782821211766 / 2020 / 128 pages / 9,95 € when Amelia, the school supervisor and dance teacher, Emmanuel Werner, Myrtille sees them dancing during a break, she hatches a plan to Sway create original choreography for the school’s Christmas fair. Now she just has to convince the kids that they have more in common than they think. 9782821211759 / 2020 / 128 pages / 9,95 €
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Le masque du père Mister Papillon MY FATHER’S MASK MR. BUTTERFLY
This new series of gripping novels brings valuable help A zany story about differences, tolerance, to troubled teens through its message of hope. and accepting others.
This novel depicts the impact of a father’s violence on his Here come the contestants for the beauty contest! The family through the eyes of his young daughter Celeste, audience looks on, wide-eyed. The emcee adds enthu- who doesn’t quite understand what’s going on. Readers siastic commentary. Among the contestants, one stands will be swiftly drawn into her life through her thoughts out: lovely wings, confident gait... the perfect butterfly! and feelings. The judges are won over, and name him Mr. Butterfly. But 9782374370651 / 2020 / 128 pages / 7,90 € just as they’re handing him his trophy, his wings wobble... and fall off! Uh-oh! Could it be? Is Mr. Butterfly just an ordinary earthworm? What to do? Louison Nielman Alice Meteignier Alice Meteignier delivers a zany tale about differences and tolerance, unfurling a broad palette of illustration techniques to get her message accross. Rights sold Chinese (Traditional) 9782352893745 / 2018 / 40 pages / 14,00 €
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S’unir c’est se relayer : S’unir c’est s’accepter : une histoire de poules une histoire de poules TEAMING UP IS TAKING TEAMING UP IS TURNS: A HEN TALE TOLERANCE: A HEN TALE
A fun, sarcastic book about gender equality, feminism, Who could even imagine all the questions you get and parenting! in a henhouse?
Brooding is essential to keeping eggs warm so they’ll Some chickens want to change the color of their feathers. hatch into little chicks someday. But it can be kind of But not everyone is into such newfangled notions! A witty boring, and it’s also a lot of pressure. Do hens ever get to and hilarious read. take breaks? And why can’t roosters brood too? 9782371650640 / 2020 / 52 pages / 16,00 € Laurent Cardon 9782371650411 / 2019 / 48 pages / 16,00 € Laurent Cardon
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La déclaration des droits des filles En cas d’attaque A DECLARATION IN CASE OF SIEGE OF THE RIGHTS OF GIRLS A book full of humor about intelligence, creativity, leadership… and naps! A smart and joyful inventory of the rights of girls, Once upon a time, an army dwelled in a remote forest. already translated into 10 languages! The big castle where they lived had never been attacked, Already published in 10 languages, Talents Hauts so no one really cared about protecting it. Except for one flagship series challenges stereotypes. A funny, quirkily female knight. Tired of not doing anything, she decides illustrated, and heartwarming list of 15 articles of faith, to train her troops to get better at relaxing. One day, the to be read aloud, proclaiming that girls, too, have the castle is besieged, and our heroine leads her lazy army right to be scruffy and untidy, to do any job they want, to victory through an absurd battle full of sun chairs and and to love whomever they want: girls, boys... or both! hammocks instead of swords! ÉLISABETH BRAMI, Séverine Huguet ESTELLE BILLON-SPAGNOL 9782362661068 / 2014 / 36 pages / 12,50 € 9782362663567 / 2020 / 36 pages / 15,00 € Rights sold Chinese (Simpified & Traditional), English (UK), Italian, Korean, Portuguese (except for Brazil), Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese FIND OUT MORE > Over 30,000 copies sold in France > A series backed by Amnesty International France
Florence Pariente (Foreign Rights) [email protected] Florence Pariente (Foreign Rights) [email protected] Laurence Faron (Publisher & Foreign Rights) [email protected] Laurence Faron (Publisher & Foreign Rights) [email protected]
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We are family Le dernier cow-boy WE ARE FAMILY LAST OF THE COWBOYS
No two families are alike… and that’s absolutely A cowboy yarn that gallops past cliché. normal! Quickly Lucky never gets any rest! But that’s how life is What makes a family? The combinations are endless, when you’re a lawman in the Wild West. and reality will always surprise us. Families are diverse, and that is wonderful! With a light touch, this book takes 9782358711036 / 2017 / 48 pages / 16,00 € us through a gallery of possible scenarios, inviting young readers to describe their own families. 32 pages Dominika Lipniewska Grégoire Kocjan, Lisbeth Renardy FIND OUT MORE > Conceived for the 2020 Bologna Children’s Book Fair
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Salomé et les femmes de parole - Salomé et les femmes de parole - Trouver sa place Défendre son nom SALOME AND THE WOMEN SALOME AND THE WOMEN WHO SPOKE OUT: WHO SPOKE OUT: STANDING FINDING YOUR PLACE UP FOR YOURSELF
It’s not easy making yourself heard when you’re Salome continues to explore the history in sixth grade, but Salome takes inspiration of groundbreaking women who fought for equality from women who paved the way before her. against stereotypes.
Salome has just started sixth grade at a new middle It’s not easy, giving a presentation on an outspoken wo- school. She’s a dreamer in love with words (her mother’s man like Rosa Parks, when you’re only a 6th grader! Nathalie Charles a translator); some people call her a nerd. Her biggest Nathalie Charles Salome has some terrific ideas for the speech she’ll be rival in class is Capucine, student council leader and giving on Black Power before the whole student body. gossipmonger. Soon, a challenge comes Salome’s way: But will her friends see themselves in her motto: “At a contest to find a new name for the school. To be eligible, Rosa Parks Middle School, everyone has a place!”? Why Salome needs a teacher’s backing. She’ll have to present are some kids more popular than others when all they her case before her peers and win their vote. But with do is spread lies and rumors? How can we all live in Capucine in the running too, who’ll side with Salome? harmony and respect, when harassment is everywhere? Will she ever figure out where she fits in? Luckily, women who’ve spoken out are here to inspire boys and girls alike! 9782700273656 / 2019 / 192 pages / 12,90 € 9782700275353 / 2020 / 224 pages / 12,90 €
Sarah Daumerie [email protected] Sarah Daumerie [email protected]
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Curieuse, Bavarde et Coquette CURIOSA, CHATTIE, AND FLIRTITIA
A wickedly feminist tale.
Three princesses, Curiosa, Chattie and Flirtitia, drive their father batty. The king wanted sons for heirs. But despite it all, the sisters adore their grumpy papa. One day, a war breaks out! Vanquished by his enemy, the king is taken pri- soner. Finally, a chance for the three princesses to prove their true worth and show off their virtues! Michel Piquemal 9782352630678 / 2012 / 36 pages / 14,00 €
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Les Découvreuses Camel Joe WOMEN IN SCIENCE CAMEL JOE
20 women who have helped humankind make great A fierce and cheerful broadside against contemporary leaps forward in a variety of scientific disciplines. patriarchal machismo, with echoes of the #MeToo movement. 5 full graphic biographies: Marie Curie (physics and chemistry), Hedy Lamarr (ITT), Ada Lovelace (compu- Young illustrator, Constance avenges the countless daily ting), Rosalind Franklin (biology), Mae Jamison (space). aggressions against women with her comic Camel Joe, 15 illustrated introductions: Émilie du Châtelet, Xie the wild adventures of an anti-macho vigilante. It’s a way Yi, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Emmy Noether, Marthe to let off steam that could make her name, if Constance Gautier, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Grace could only stick up for herself a little and get it published. Alele-Williams, Maryam Mirzakhani, Jocelyn Bell Good thing she’s got her girlfriends, her boyfriend, and Marie Moinard, Burnell, Sophie Germain, Grace Murray Hopper, Donna her favorite band, not to mention Camel Joe herself. Theo Strickland, Irène Joliot-Curie. Claire Duplan From how to wear leggings to menstrual blood to raging Christelle Pécou against douchebags, Claire Duplan fires a fierce broad- 9791093111384 / 2019 / 92 pages / 17,00 € side against sexism. FIND OUT MORE > 2,000 copies sold 9782374251240 / 2018 / 120 pages / 16,50 € > Nominated for the 2018 Artéminia Prize > Animated series adaptation underway
Sylvain Coissard [email protected] Sylvain Coissard [email protected]
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AMA, Le souffle des femmes ELZA - C’est quand tu veux, Cupidon ! (nouvelle édition) AMA: BREATH ELZA - WHENEVER, OF A WOMAN CUPID! (NEW EDITION) A sensitive portrait of a woman in 1960s Japan. The story of a teenage girl waiting for love, Japan, late 1960s. Nagisa, a young woman from Tokyo told in charming slice-of-life episodes… with polite and modest manners, lands with her belon- By Catherine Meurisse, a can’t-miss creator gings on Hegura, a small, remote island of fishermen. of bestselling graphic novels. There, she is adopted by Isoe, the leader of the community of “Ama” women who rule the island. The Ama - strong, With her gimlet eye and a gift for lethal comebacks, here harsh, and wild “women of the sea” - dive naked into the comes Elza the merciless! Between her highly expe- Franck Manguin, depths in search of pearls... Ama is a fascinating explo- Didier Lévy, rienced girlfriend Molly Molotov, who’s always playing the ration of the relationship between the female body in its sexpot, and her faithful, terrified lover Robert-Louis, who Cécile Becq natural nakedness and in a corseted, patriarchal society. Catherine Meurisse really isn’t her type, Elza dreams of falling passionately in love. But no nonsense! Her destiny is to become at once a 9782377314034 / 2020 / 112 pages / 21,50 € Rights sold femme fatale and a free woman. At the very least. German FIND OUT MORE 9782377313907 / 2020 / 64 pages / 9,50 € > A small-format reprint of a series that sold over 8,000 copies in its original size
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Maléfiques Bébé 2000 EVIL WITCHES BABY 2000
Nine Antico investigates not only sex, menstrual “After my checkup, I have to order more ink and paper, cups, dildos, and venereal diseases, but also freedom go shopping, clean the house...” of speech and art, and the conversation of modern The diary of a woman who becomes pregnant without the women, as naturally and humorously as possible. father’s consent, Baby 2000 gives a raw, grotesque and Maléfiques is a collection of strips depicting the everyday gutsy portrait of delivery and the first months of having conversations of three friends. Antico paints a portrait of an infant. This memoir is the first comic book by under- the group, chicks free of hang-ups, and shows us the true ground artist Caroline Sury, co-founder of indie publisher nature of women, who, in reality, fart, take drugs, speak Le Dernier Cri. Swinging between euphoria and anxiety, frankly about their bodies, and have fun. Behind closed it accurately depicts parenthood with Sury’s chaotic, brist- doors, the three characters strip topless; discuss Woody ling drawing style. Baby 2000 is rooted in everyday life, Nine Antico Allen, witchcraft, mental burden, and sodomy; compare Caroline Sury where the new apartment needs renovations and nurses their dildos and their indifference to yoga. watch soccer while their patient is in labor. 9782844147592 / 2019 / 64 pages / 16,00 € Rights sold 9782844142009 / 2006 / 88 pages / 14,20 € Swedish
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Saison des Roses Peau d’homme ROSE SEASON SKIN OF A MAN
Chloé Wary’s bright colors and expressive, Girls just wanna have fun! energetic style bring the fight for women’s lib Renaissance Italy: the time has come for Bianca, a young to a suburban soccer field. woman from a fine family, to be wed. She is introduced The women’s soccer team of Rosigny-sur-Seine performs to her future husband Giovanni, a young rich merchant. well, but due to budget restraints, the club’s manager As the wedding day nears, a secret that has been in the takes them out of the championship, in order to keep family for generations is passed down to Bianca: the skin the men’s team going. This graphic novel follows the of a man. When she puts it on, she becomes Lorenzo, frustrations of team captain Barbara and her fellow team- enjoying all the attributes of a stunningly beautiful young mates, close as sisters, as they struggle to secure funding man. Blending sex and religion, morality and humour, and recognition. Drawing on her own experience with a grandeur and frankness, Skin of a Man takes readers on Chloé Wary women’s soccer team, Chloé Wary spotlights the injus- Huber, Zanzim a wild, passionate quest for love as well as a journey of tices faced by female players in a male-dominated sport. liberation from tradition.
Rights sold 9782357611764 / 2019 / 240 pages / 23,00 € 9782344010648 / 2020 / 160 pages / 27,00 € Spanish (Spain), Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish FIND OUT MORE > France Télévision Viewers’ Choice Award at the Festival d’Angoulême, 2020 > Artémisia Prize, 2020 > Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region Young Readers Prize, 2019
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Il fallait que je vous le dise Les crocodiles sont toujours là I JUST HAD TO TELL YOU CROCODILES Artist Aude Mermillod meets novelist Martin Winckler: ARE EVERYWHERE two voices to break the silence on a still-taboo subject: abortion. Women’s actual accounts of everyday sexism and harassment out in the streets, adapted into comics. Although sometimes a choice, abortion remains no less a traumatic event in a woman’s life. And one all the more After a previous collection in 2014, Thomas Mathieu painful in that they keep it to themselves, unsure how to returns with more women’s voices from the Crocodiles express the ambivalence of the feelings and representa- Project, this time with artist Juliette Boutant. The authors tions it inspires. Anxiety, guilt, loneliness, physical suffe- again depict stalkers as bright green crocodiles, an aes- ring, and most importantly, the impossibility of sharing thetic choice that adds force and impact to realistic set- one’s experience. With this book, Aude Mermillod breaks Thomas Mathieu, tings, inviting readers to see things through women’s eyes Aude Mermillod the silence, blendingher testimony as a patient with that of and raising awareness about the abnormality of some physician Martin Winckler. Their two paths intersect and Juliette Boutant domineering, predatory male behaviors. An eye-opening converse in a book that is powerful, vital, and peaceful. book, more essential than ever in our day and age, to help Rights sold Rights sold alter perceptions and behaviors and combat sexism in Korean 9782203153738 / 2019 / 168 pages / 22,00 € Korean all its forms . 9782203172272 / 2019 / 186 pages / 19,50 €
Jérôme Baron [email protected] Jérôme Baron [email protected]
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Prénom : Inna Touchées Une enfance ukrainienne, vol. 1 MY NAME IS INNA: TOUCHÉ! Female victims of violence recover and return to their A UKRAINIAN CHILDHOOD, lives after a therapeutic fencing class. Lucie sleeps with a knife in her hand. She lives in fear, ter- VOL. 1 rified of all men. Tamara is a fighter, constantly on guard: to make sure she’s never going to be a victim again, she’s Inna Shevchenko’s unsentimental memoir of her become the aggressor. Nicole has chosen to retreat from childhood in a country in disrepair. life instead, fading away so she can’t be a target anymore. Born in Ukraine in 2008, the Femen movement, is known All three were victims of sexual violence. To get back on for its “topless” protests to denounce violence against track, they pick up swords. A therapeutic fencing class will women’s bodies in abuse, trafficking, and rape. In 2012, help them recover, and start to reach out again: a year- Thomas Azuélos, Inna was the subject of a criminal investigation by the Quentin Zuttion long program to save themselves and take back control Simon Rochepeau, Ukrainian police. She left her country and obtained poli- of their own lives. Inna Shevchenko tical asylum in France in April 2013. She was 23 years old at the time. This story, written in the first person, recounts Rights sold 9782228924481 / 2019 / 224 pages / 21,80 € the childhood (volume 1) and adolescence (volume 2) of German (+ Japanese & Korean options) Inna Shevchenko in Ukraine. It tries to answer this ques- FIND OUT MORE tion: why and how did Inna become the world-renowned > 6,000 copies sold feminist activist she is today? > Media adaptation in negotiation 9782754827379 / 2020 / 104 pages / 18,00 €
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Pucelle Gisèle et Béatrice VIRGIN GISÈLE AND BÉATRICE
Does being a woman mean you have to do what people As gender and power roles get seriously reversed, say? An uncompromising autobiographical critique all we can do is ask: who’s the boss now? of family and social conventions. A victim of sexism and harassment, Beatrice decides to Florence’s mother loves telling that story about her cousin let her boss have a taste of the unfair treatment to which who had no idea what was going to happen on her wed- women are subjected. Using a magic plant brought back ding night. Florence always pretends to guffaw… because from Africa, she turns him into a woman. Creator Benoît she’s 13. What does she know about it? Feroumont lets loose with his true feelings in this social Florence’s parents never tell her anything about sex. satire tinged with erotic humor both naughty and caustic, As much as it pains her, she accepts her ignorance a delightful tale for adults. at first as the price of belonging to the “second sex.” Florence Dupré La Tour But giving in, getting married, being invisible: that’s not Feroumont 9782800159010 / 2013 / 128 pages / 18,00 € how she pictured her life turning out. Instead of ignoring her teenage fears and her emerging sexuality, she’s going to have to confront them. Rights sold Spanish 9782205076493 / 2020 / 184 pages / 19,99 € FIND OUT MORE > 39,000 copies sold in French > One of Dupuis’ bestsellers on the Europecomics digital platform > Bestselling European webtoon on Izneo
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Les Crocodiles Le féminisme en 7 slogans et citations CROCODILES FEMINISM IN SEVEN Ever been sexually harassed on the street? At work? QUOTES AND SLOGANS At the doctor’s office? This graphic novel exposes just how widespread such abuse really is. “Feminism” is an often misunderstood, misinterpreted, and misused word. For years, Thomas Mathieu has gathered true stories Let’s set the record straight. about sexual harassment and sexist treatment from young women through his website. In this collection, he Despite significant progress during the 20th century, the has adapted them into short comic strips, depicting all feminist struggle is still an uphill battle. From Olympe de male characters as green crocodiles, while women are Gouges to Virginie Despentes, via Simone de Beauvoir and portrayed normally. This sensitive and thought-provoking Angela Davis, this nonfiction graphic novel traces events book prompts reflection on the countless ways that men Thomas Mathieu, and slogans of the feminist movement’s key moments Thomas Mathieu and women behave in today’s society. and explains concepts such as gender, male domination, Anne Charlotte Husson slut-shaming, and intersectionality. 9782803634651 / 2014 / 276 pages / 17,95 € Rights sold Rights sold 9782803637409 / 2016 / 96 pages / 10,00 € Korean, Russian Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Turkish FIND OUT MORE > 37,000 copies sold in French
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Géante - Histoire de celle qui parcourut Emma G. Wildford le monde à la recherche de la liberté GIANT: THE STORY EMMA G. WILDFORD The story of Emma G. Wildford, a journey that blends OF THE WOMAN WHO love, mystery, and adventure in 1920s England and Lapland.
TRAVELED THE WORLD Fourteen months ago, Emma’s fiancé Roald Hodges of the National Geographic Society board the S.S. Kinship IN SEARCH OF FREEDOM bound for Norway, and since then… not a word. She regularly interrogates other club members, in vain. A colossal coming-of-age story that addresses Before leaving, Roald gave Emma a mysterious enve- difference, love, and freedom through a sensitive lope, to be opened only if anything bad happened to him. feminist lens. JC. Deveney, In denial, she decides to leave everything -life, luxury, and Once upon a time, Celeste, an actual giantess, lived in the Zidrou, Édith home- behind and go to Lapland in search of him. On Nuria Tamarit heart of a mountain. She was the youngest of a family of the way, she will gradually shed all her certainties… Far six brothers who had taken her in as an orphan. And when more than a search for a missing fiancé, Emma’s quest Rights sold it came time for each of them to leave the family nest in Rights sold will become one of genuine self-discovery. Spanish (Spain) turn, Celeste, too, wanted to stride forth in search of new Croatian, English (World) horizons. Out in the world, she discovers her differences FIND OUT MORE 9782302063976 / 2017 / 104 pages / 22,95 € are met with hostility. She witnesses the injustices of war > 20,000 copies sold and religion, but she also finds love. Will her journey finally bring her the freedom to be herself? 9782413000167 / 2020 / 200 pages / 27,95 €
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Les Enquêtes « Polar » de Philippine Lomar Anuki (Série) (série) PHILIPPINA LOMAR’S ANUKI (SERIES) Astonishing nature adventures for young readers!
THRILLING CASES Anuki is a young Native American boy who bravely sets out on adventures and never gives up, even in the face (SERIES) of danger. In each volume, the hero learns something important about life: solidarity, sharing, tolerance, and Are you a teen in need of help? Never fear! This young, respect... With his stylish pencils, Stéphane creates rea- modern girl is on the case! listic natural settings, thrilling action sequences, and Philippina Lomar is a young detective who’s never short cartoonish humor scenes. on words. When someone needs her help, she rushes Renowned French children’s publisher L’école des Loi- Dominique Zay, headlong towards trouble, activates her network, and Frédéric Maupomé, sirs is co-publishing the first volume in softcover. does not hesitate to put herself in danger. She can always Greg Blondin, Dawid count on her wit, her sense of humour, and her two unu- Stéphane Sénégas Since 2011 / 40 pages / 10,70 € sual friends, Mok and Gege, who help her when she finds FIND OUT MORE a good lead or trouble comes her way... Powerful themes, Rights sold > 5 titles in the series such as extortion, identity-building, and domestic violence Arabic (United Arab Emirates), Chinese > 13,000 copies sold will speak to tweens and teenagers. (Simplified), Spanish (South America) FIND OUT MORE Since 2016 / 48 pages / 12,70 € > 9 volumes in the series > 68,000 copies sold > On the French Ministry of Education’s recommended reading list > Animated series adaptation underway
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Pourquoi y a-t-il des inégalités Miss Charity entre les hommes et les femmes ? WHY AREN’T MEN AND MISS CHARITY An endearing character and an homage WOMEN EQUAL YET? to Beatrix Potter. A touch of Jane Austen with irreverent reflections on high society and the social A study that goes back to the roots of inequality norms of the era. between men and women, revealing their absurdity Charity is lively and very curious. But in late 19th-century in hopes of providing the inspiration for a fresh start polite English society, proper little girls aren’t supposed from new foundations. to be seen or heard. Since her parents pay her no mind, To understand today’s inequalities between men and Charity embarks on a series of adventures to avoid dying women, Soledad Bravi went back to when humans first of boredom: raising mice, organizing snail races, studying appeared. Armed with her findings, she hopes to pave the mushrooms, learning Shakespeare by heart... Then she Dorothée Werner, way for a fresh start from fairer, healthier foundations. Anne Montel, Loïc Clément, discovers watercolor, and starts painting the animals and Soledad Bravi Perhaps society could update rights to be more available based on the novel landscapes she sees. She goes on to become a natura- to both sexes. This is a chronology of the evolution of by Marie-Aude Murail list and an illustrator of children’s books. A lovely story Rights sold women’s rights, starting from the beginnings of hu- of emancipation told through Anne Montel’s magnificent Italian, Korean, Spanish (World) mankind to our own times. FIND OUT MORE and moving artwork. FIND OUT MORE 9782369816102 / 2018 / 96 pages / 10,50 € > The eagerly awaited adaptation of 9782369816843 / 2020 / 128 pages / 16,00 € > 18,000 copies sold in France Marie-Aude Murail’s best-selling novel, with more than 30,000 copies sold in France
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Charlotte Bousquet BARRIERS
A sensitive graphic novel on gender reassignment.
“I laid the groundwork at dinner. Brandished my good grades, brought up the gay couple in class, said “This is how it is”, to see what they’d say. They hesitated. Then gave in. Because we were all thinking the exact same thing: I couldn’t spend the rest of my life hiding. Then, as my therapist likes to say, the hardest part was over. I’d proved stronger than they. And I’d left them behind, even if I could never forget what they’d done for me. And that was it. The die had been cast. I was headed for my Charlotte Bousquet fate. I tried my best to play it cool. But inside, the thought of that evening freaked me out.” 9782354885380 / 2018 / 72 pages / 15,00 €
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Météore Félines METEOR FELINES
A powerful, shrewd, and moving take on trans identity. “This is the story of teenagers who have been labeled Felines: They fight against oppression in this fantasy The gripping monologue of a young transgender teen- that gets at some hard truths about feminism, ager who defies society’s norms, challenging notions of discrimination, and intolerance.” ÉCRAN TOTAL masculinity and femininity as she undergoes a compelling transformation. Born a boy, Sara has known she was a Like a lot of teenage girls, Louise suffers from an unex- girl since early childhood: before she could understand plained genetic mutation. Overnight, hair grew all over her it, even put it into words. She’s grown up trapped by her body, her senses were sharpened, her strength and agility body, by the rules of masculinity, unable to so much as look increased, and her emotional sensitivity heightened. She at herself in the mirror. Is she a mistake? An anomaly? became a “Feline”. The government response was setting Something has to change, her body needs realignment. up stigmatising and oppressive emergency measures. Antoine Dole When she turns sixteen, Sara begins her transition to Stéphane Servant Meanwhile, a rising extremist political party, the League become her true self, so she can feel alive. of Light, promoted violence against Felines. Angered by the way they are treated, some Felines decide to form a FIND OUT MORE 9782330130367 / 2020 / 80 pages / 9,80 € Rights sold resistance, and Louise becomes the face of the revolution. > “This book blazes by like a meteor in Russian the night sky, dazzling with intelligence FIND OUT MORE 9782812618291 / 2019 / 464 pages / 15,80 € and sensitivity. A celebration of life and > 10,000 copies sold freedom.” Michel Abescat, Télérama > Thriller Series Award, 2020
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Le goût du baiser Tenir debout dans la nuit THE TASTE FOR KISSES STANDING TALL AT NIGHT
A story of friendship, pleasure, desire, anger A novel, rooted in current events like the #MeToo transformed into strength and re-appropriation movement, ranging from France across the Atlantic of one’s body. to New York.
A few days before the end of the summer break, 16-year New York: now that’s somewhere Lalie has never been! old Aurore has a bike accident. Nothing serious, on the She’s never even dared dream of going. It’s too beautiful, surface. But when she banged her head, she lost her too far away, too expensive. So when Piotr offers to take sense of smell and taste. How can you begin to explore her along, she’ll do anything to seize the opportunity. your sexuality when you can’t smell anything, not even Anything? Not quite... Some things you just can’t stoop yourself? Aurore feels vulnerable and angry. Until she to. Some prices are too high to pay. So Lalie finds herself starts boxing. Punching, sweating – that she can do. From on the street, faced with dirty looks and the dangers of Camille Emmanuelle one training session to the next, she discovers her body, Éric Pessan the night. There’s only one thing is on her mind: stay powerful and alive. She also meets Valentin, a boy with awake. Hold out. Stand Tall. whom to pursue this freeing and passionate exploration. 9782211307666 / 2020 / 160 pages / 13,20 € 9791035202941 / 2019 / 224 pages / 14,90 €
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Combien de pas jusqu’à la lune Rosa Bonheur, l’audacieuse HOW MANY STEPS ROSA THE BOLD TO THE MOON The daring life of Rosa Bonheur, one of the most famous female artists of the 19th century and Katherine Johnson, the woman who made it possible a trailblazer for generations of women. for men to go to the Moon. In 19th-century France, women were not free to choose Katherine Johnson was born in West Virginia in 1918, their own futures. Yet Rosa Bonheur never married. the youngest of four siblings. Thanks to her exceptional She earned her own money as a painter, wore trousers, abilities, she graduates from college at eighteen, joins smoked, went hunting, and lived with another woman in a NACA in 1953, and then NASA. Despite surroundings rife castle. She was also one of the very few women who lived with segregation and misogyny, she proves her worth to see herself become a household name, her work widely through the precision of her equations. In 1969, astronaut renowned. Natacha Henry tells the story of a 14-year-old Carole Trébor John Glenn entrusts her with calculating the trajectory of Natacha Henry Rosa, determined to become a painter of animals, who Apollo 11: the Moonshot. Working in the shadow of men, with the help of her father and a friend will defy social Katherine also strives to promote the rights of women norms to achieve her destiny. FIND OUT MORE and African Americans. FIND OUT MORE > 9,000 copies sold in France since its > Rosa Bonheur is Natacha Henry’s 9782226440716 / 2020 / 336 pages / 15,00 € release in September 2019 9782226443427 / 2019 / 448 pages / 15,90 € second book with Albin Michel. Her first outing with Albin Michel in 2017, Marie and Bronia, was shortlisted for a dozen literary prizes and sold over 16,000 copies
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Je suis qui ? Je suis quoi ? Une fille en or WHO AM I? GOLDEN GIRL WHAT AM I? The true story of a brave and inspiring superwoman! In 1928, Betty Robinson of Illinois became the first A teen-focused book about sexual orientation - a key woman to win a gold medal in the 100-meter dash. But resource for young people! the moment that changed her life came long before that. A book for young people who have reached the age One day, she was running to catch her train when the where they want to address deeply personal concerns coach of her high school sports team happened to spot about growing up and going through puberty, but live in a her from inside. Impressed by her speed, he immediately changing society in which certain attitudes nevertheless realized her extraordinary potential. But there was just prove resistant to change. An important book that tackles one problem — athletics was a boys-only club. For Betty, a crucial subject, fills a vital gap in the contemporary a long struggle against social mores and her own self Jean-Michel Billioud, publishing scene, and seeks to provide valuable support Philippe Nessmann begins as she seeks to make her dreams of becoming Sophie Nanteuil, to teens. This project that brings together a group of an Olympic champion come true. Terkel Risbjerg, Zelda Zonk politically engaged authors and illustrators, all working in collaboration. 9782081495630 / 2021 (forthcoming) 224 pages / 13,00 € Rights sold 9782203195806 / 2019 / 80 pages / 13,95 € Traditional Chinese (Territory: Taiwan and worldwide excluding Hong Kong, Macau, and the People’s Republic of China) FIND OUT MORE > 3,500 copies sold in 4 months
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Georges, le monde et moi Rose rage GEORGES, THE WORLD, ROSE’S RAGE AND ME When one girl gets unfairly kicked out of high school, the others band together and rebel. People are always labeling themselves. But for Priam, A young girl who also happens to be a reporter for the those labels are way too limiting! school newspaper is outraged by the fact that another girl I used to think of myself as the average guy: middling from her school was expelled after a classmate sexually grades, a loving family, a small group of friends. I used to abused her. The young reporter is driven to investigate, be the stereotypical geek who ends up with the cute girl and after finding that a terrible miscarriage of justice has at the end of the movie. In short, my life was boring. Then taken place, she decides to occupy the building with a Georges showed up, with his straight talk and his crappy bunch of other girls and start a feminist revolution in her jokes, and everything changed. He sent my world spin- own life. Illana Cantin ning. Obviously, I wasn’t going to wind up with the cute girl. Illana Cantin An accessible read, full of action instead of fancy speeches… 9782016269527 / 2018 / 320 pages / 15,90 € 9782017114352 / 2020 (forthcoming) 286 pages / 15,90 €
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Je les entends nous suivre Traits d’union I CAN HEAR THEM HYPHENATED COMING FOR US An uproarious book about shattering stereotypes! A wedding: what better occasion to express your joy, A novel about love, sexual identity, and what other friendship, and love? But Thibault’s friends and family people think of you. just aren’t feeling it. First of all, why would a boy who When Leo meets Leonore at his boxing class, it’s love at just graduated high school get married? How will his first sight. The day he turns 15, he makes up his mind to relatives react to his sudden and mysterious decision? kiss her. Then a boy named Robin shows up at his party. Each, in turn, talks about how they see Thibault. But, in Fine features, golden eyes... Bewitching Robin. Leo falls the end, do they really know him at all? It’s going to be a head over heels for him. But why, when an hour earlier, very strange wedding! he only had eyes for Leonore? How can you get a boy’s Florence Cadier attention when you’re afraid of what his family and friends Cécile Chartre 9791090685628 / 2016 / 72 pages / 8,50 € think of you? How do accept your own powerful feelings? Then one day, Robin and Leo are victims of a homophobic assault... 9791096935130 / 2018 / 96 pages / 9,50 €
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La revanche des princesses Qui sont les féministes ? REVENGE OF FEMINISTS: THE PRINCESSES WHO ARE THEY?
Six stories of gutsy, quirky princesses by six major Women! Men! The same struggle! YA writers! Feminism has been around for hundreds of years. As a Not all princesses are sleeping beauties, delicate struggle, it has been led mainly by women, but it concerns daydreamers, or well-behaved girls dreaming of all of society. Too many stereotypes are still too wides- romance! Tired of waiting for their Prince Charming, our pread. They influence our idea of what it means to be a princesses go on adventures on their own, showing the woman. The right to vote, to drive, to education, to control world that a princess can do whatever she puts her mind over one’s own body... This book surveys the history of COLLECTIVE, to! Mischievous, brave, and rebellious, whether onstage feminism and the battles it has fought in various eras or deep in the woods, these princesses will let nothing Julie Guiol and nations, painting a portrait of the female condition KIM CONSIGNY stand in the way of their revenge! in public and private spheres, and calling on readers to A richly illustrated collection of outstanding short stories, join the cause. Rights sold by Clémentine Beauvais, Sandrine Beau, Alice Brière- Rights sold Castilian Haquet, Charlotte Bousquet, Anne-Fleur Multon, and Chinese (Simplified) 9782352632412 / 2018 / 128 pages / 12,00 € Carole Trébor. 9782377420520 / 2019 / 198 pages / 14,95 €
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Autobiographie d’une licorne P.O.V. - Point of View MEMOIRS OF A UNICORN P.O.V. - POINT OF VIEW
This novel explores relationships and love, A resolutely modern novel about addiction and being with the wrong person, being in and out of love, recovery. and choosing to be in a relationship... or not. One morning, 16-year-old Lucas’ computer and smart- Carmen is attracted to both boys and girls. She feels phone crash at the same time. How can he explain to a bit like a unicorn... but unicorns aren’t supposed to his parents that it’s because of all the viruses his devices exist! She went out with two boys when she was younger picked up from porn sites? How can he admit, even to (and honestly, it was good, but it never lasted). Now she’s himself, that his addiction to cybersex is at the root of his sixteen and would like to date a girl. Problem is, nobody dropping out of school or becoming overweight? That his in her high school has come out as gay. The adults in her addition is an illness? Lucas comes close to disappearing family have their own problems and are of no help at all. entirely before his long journey to recovery begins. Maïté Bernard So Carmen decides to take things into her own hands. Patrick Bard Never say that bisexuals are indecisive! 9782748525212 / 2018 / 208 pages / 15,95 € 9782748527056 / 2020 (forthcoming) Rights sold 512 pages / 17,95 € English (World)
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Les maux bleus Sans foi ni loi BRUISES HER NAME WAS An intimate story, at times harsh, at times poetic, AB STENSON that denounces homophobia and speaks movingly to teen readers. A bank robber takes a teenager on the run with her across the untamed West. A wild and sensitive For three years now, Armelle has known she likes girls. western. A lonely bookworm, she confides her fears and hopes to her blue notebook. There she tells of Inès, a new When an outlaw comes to his house and kidnaps him, student she finds attractive. When her friend violent- Garrett is terrified. But the willful, wild Ab Stenson, will ly rejects her advances, Armelle becomes the target open the doors to a brighter future for him, far from his of her classmates’ scorn and insults. Then, when her violent father. parents discover her secret, they throw her out. She’s Fascinated by his captor, Garett discovers her greatest Christine Feret-Fleury only sixteen the night she sees the door to the only home Marion Brunet secrets, the ones she only tells her closest friends. In her she’s ever known slam shut in her face. Alone in the wake, he will encounter love and friendship where he least streets with her notebook, she must learn to survive… expected them. And at the end of the road, Ab will offer But is she truly alone? Rights sold him the most beautiful gift of all: freedom. Spanish (Planeta) 9782266294195 / 2019 / 221 pages / 16,90 € 9782367406046 / 2018 / 200 pages / 15,00 € FIND OUT MORE > Pépite d’or Award, Salon de Montreuil, 2019 > English synopsis available
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77 Mercy, Mary, Patty 77 - SEINE ET MARNE MERCY, MARY, PATTY
In her literary debut, Fouqué turns an unflinching gaze With her retelling of the Patty Hearst affair, on a generation robbed of its dreams, drawing readers Lola Lafon delivers a politically radical novel into the world of adolescence through effortless that explores how society views women who set out stream-of-consciousness narration. in search of freedom, and get it.
One morning, a teenager decides to skip school. Instead February 1974: Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of the of getting on the bus, he spends the day in the bus shelter. famous American publishing magnate, is kidnapped Watching cars go by. Letting his gaze drift over scenes of by a revolutionary group whose ranks she soon joins. the county where he lives, Département 77. And drowning Three women, each of a different generation, find them- in memories... of Big Kevin. Of Enzo the Betrayer. And of selves defined by this pivotal event, their lives hijacked a girl named November. as they return, time and again, to grapple with its lasting Marin Fouqué Lola Lafon consequences. 9782330125455 / 2019 / 256 pages / 19,00 € 9782330081782 / 2017 / 240 pages / 19,80 €
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Délit de gosses Les Militantes CONCEPTION AND ACTIVISTAS OTHER MISDEMEANORS It’s not every day a woman gets shot down in the street. Who murdered that woman protesting violence against Jeanne and Marie are very much in love, but Jeanne women? can’t conceive of conceiving any way but the traditional way. So she’s hatched quite an outrageous scheme… Béatrice Chabaud found the strength to leave her wife-beating husband and turn her life around. Just Jeanne and Marie have been living together for three enough, that is, to piss off people who think victims should years. They met in Barcelona and were instantly smit- stay victims. Her murder is a clear-cut case for the police, ten, Jeanne having just broken off her engagement but still, it’s going to take some time, tact, and attention with her childhood sweetheart François-Henri. Now, to detail. When misunderstandings run rampant, details Jeanne dreams of having a child, but the only way she take on an unmanageable importance, and suspects Isabel Ascencio can conceive of conceiving is... well, the traditional way. Claire Raphaël who’ve honed their lies for years are suddenly voluntee- When her younger brother announces that he’s getting ring too much info, a single detail can sometimes be the married, Jeanne hatches an outrageous scheme to key to an entire investigation. seduce François-Henri and have sex with him one more time... y’know, for the baby! 9782812619748 / 2020 / 224 pages / 18,00 € 9782812617256 / 2019 / 224 pages / 19,80 €
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Voix sans issue Le corps est une chimère DEAD-END VOICES THE BODY IS A MIRAGE
A realistic and poetic female voice to denounce violence A novel that explores gender and paints a portrait of against women’s bodies and speak about love. today’s society through a chorus of multiple narrators
In this novel, mothers are monstrous (unspeaking, com- Being a man is cramping Philippe’s style. Marion has three plicit, insane), and fathers too (incestuous, absent). Their kids together with... Élise! Camille wants to change the children, like Mary and Frank, grow up, get away as soon world, Ashanta doesn’t believe anyone can, and Isabelle as they’ can, and scrape by in shattered lives. Theirs are is so in love she could die. Maya is a sex worker; Jo, a cop, the dead-end voices, from ordinary people crushed by doesn’t much appreciate that. Despite their differences, life, but exalted by their courage to live and their care these seven characters discover how they can help each for others.When Mary and Frank meet, something gives; other as their lives intersect and intertwine. Modern love, suddenly, there’s a promise of somewhere else to go. desire, and relationships are diagnosed in this novel of Marlène Tissot Summoning Sartre, Sylvia Plath, and Emily Dickinson, Wendy Delorme unsettling truths about stereotypes, passions, sexualities, Marlène Tissot explores the nature of resilience with a parenthood, and couplehood. realist dose of human frailty and unshakeable bad luck. Rights sold 9791030702163 / 2018 / 280 pages / 18,00 € 9791030703474 / 2020 / 272 pages / 18,00 € Italian
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Dominique D’Innombrables Soleils DOMINIQUE COUNTLESS SUNS
Boy and/or girl? It’s all up to Dominique! Lovers, destined for tragedy, united by passion, sensuality, and literature. Dominique is the story of a baby born in 2002. Their mo- ther, France, is the sole descendant of a line of women Badly wounded in a street fight and left for dead, English who all had children at a very young age. A youthful, poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe finds safe haven somewhat aimless idealist, France wants to keep the baby with his friend and former lover, Walter, who welcomes but refuses to impose upon them the gender biology has him into his home in the heart of Dorset. Consumed by assigned. And so she does her utmost to afford Dominique passion, Marlowe and Walter’s wife Jane, two unique and the greatest latitude in choosing their sexual identity, the fiery individuals, begin an affair. Souls and bodies alike join idea being to let their personality develop outside social in artistic and carnal consummation. Countless Suns is pressures. The book comes to a climax in the year 2014, both the story of two people with tragic fates and a stirring Cookie Allez at a pivotal moment in twelve-year-old Dominique’s life. Emmanuelle Pirotte tribute to literature. Emmanuelle Pirotte’s fourth novel once again showcases her outstanding and unique talent. 9782283028469 / 2015 / 272 pages / 15,00 € FIND OUT MORE 9782749162263 / 2019 / 240 pages / 18,00 € > Emmanuelle Pirotte’s first book Today We Live, has been translated into 15 languages
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À mains nues Rouge Pute WITH BARE HANDS SLUTTY RED LIPS
A tribute to the emancipation of female desire. A brutal and intimate account of domestic violence.
In her latest novel, Amandine Dhée explores the female Over the course of several weeks, female victims of condition 2.0 from the perspective of body empowerment domestic violence confided their stories to author and sexuality. She recounts the emotional emancipa- Perrine Le Querrec, to break the silence and speak the tion of a young woman in the face of society’s dictates unspeakable. The result is a raw, searing book, faithful about her desires. Moving fluidly between memories and to these women’s trauma, told in language that power- present-day soul-searching, Dhée portrays the journey fully conveys their bruised bodies, the humiliation and from the girl she once was to the liberated individual contempt they suffered, the shame they feel. This col- she aspires to be, from her first kiss to motherhood. lection of short, hard-hitting prose poems is a genuine A powerful tribute to a new generation of feminists. awakening, a vessel that honors many voices joined in a Amandine Dhée Perrine Le Querrec single horrific story of abuse. 9782376650553 / 2020 / 144 pages / 16,00 € 9782376650560 / 2020 / 96 pages / 15,00 € FIND OUT MORE FIND OUT MORE > Her previous book, Rough Draft > “On the eve of quarantine, Woman, sold almost 20,000 copies Perrine Le Querrec has put out a book > 6,000 copies sold since January that is important, tough, and informed > Paperback rights currently being by her encounters with female victims negotiated of domestic violence”, > “As much a diary as a feminist Libération manifesto that speaks to the experiences of all women”, Le Nouveau Magazine Littéraire
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Juste après l’amour À trop aimer
RIGHT AFTER LOVE trop aimer ALISSA WENZ TOO MUCH LOVE À À trop aimer The story of a woman who has been cheated on. ROMAN Of course he’s never hit me. He’d never hit me. He’d never do that. All it took was a phone call. She had been happy. Their DENOËL love had been the most important thing in the world to ALISSA WENZ Falling in love with Tristan had been so easy. He was bril- her. Until the day she discovered that her husband was liant, funny, and attentive. He liked music, and the songs leading two lives. she wrote. Tristan wasn’t like any man she’d ever met.
A writer and war reporter, she finds herself drowning in a He was an artist, an extraordinary catch. But soon his DENOËL very different kind of pain, the pain of betrayal. Devastated rentrée littéraire mood swings became more frequent, and the violence by this unbearable lie, she loses all sense of self, almost got worse. How far would she go for love? And could she going insane. Now it is her turn to lie. She observes the really even call it love any more? traitor without saying a word. She lives with him, puts up Sarah Marty with his looks, the weight and warmth of his body. Until Alissa Wenz 9782207160350 / 2020 (forthcoming) she gets her revenge. 240 pages / 17,00 € 9782207160169 / 2020 / 304 pages / 19,00 €
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Bon genre Toutes les femmes sauf une RIGHT TYPE NOT LIKE ALL THE OTHER An uptight Parisian woman learns about life and love WOMEN by freeing herself from all societal expectations placed on women and embarking on an unexpected road trip “A powerful call to arms for women to support each across Europe with a female truckdriver. other against patriarchal values, instead of tearing each other apart with the violence of their words.” Claude is a Parisian woman who “has it all”: A good job, a loving family, a chic apartment, and a fashionable When Maria Pourchet becomes a mother for the first wardrobe. Despite all this, however, she feels bored and time, giving birth to a baby girl alone in a hospital, it empty inside. This feeling is the catalyst for an innocent gives her a moment to reflect on the violence inflicted on flirtation on a café terrace that will change the course of women. Neither only physical, nor only perpetrated by the her life. This seemingly inconsequential event will drive patriarchy, this violence is also present in the language Inès Benaroya her to sexually experiment with many other men, separate Maria Pourchet women employ against one another. In a poignant letter from her husband, and set off on a road trip across Europe to her daughter, she her hopes that things will be different with a female truckdriver named Ricky, who will teach her for her, so that her life will not be like that of all other the real meaning of love. FIND OUT MORE women (hence the title). > SGDL Révélation Award, 2018 9782213709826 / 2019 / 256 pages / 18,00 € 9782213699134 / 2018 / 144 pages / 15,00 €
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La petite fille sur la banquise Le complexe de la sorcière
THE LITTLE GIRL THE WITCH COMPLEX ON THE ICEBERG The story of an inquiry into witch hunts and the scars they left. An essential readto help us better understand One night, author Isabelle Sorente dreams of a witch with the workings of post-traumatic memory, and the a shaved head. When Sorente tries to find out who she is, possibility of psychically rebuilding the self afterwards. she soon finds herself being haunted by all the women One day, on her way home from school, 9-year-old who’ve ever been chased, tortured, or killed just because Adélaïde falls prey to a pedophile. She and her parents people believed they’d made a pact with the devil. The report the crime to the police. Years pass. Her family tries more the author learns about witches, the more the figure to forget. But for Adélaïde, life will never be the same. of the witch seems to be speaking to a forgotten part of Throughout her youth she suffers from depression, herself, urging her to act. Did witch hunts leave a secret Adélaïde Bon undergoing every kind of therapy until she finally mets an Isabelle Sorente scar on the memories of all women? An intimate inquiry extraordinary woman who specializes in post-traumatic into who we are as women, and how our witch complex memory. 23 years after the incident, the police call. The can also save us. Rights sold case has been reopened and a man arrested. In spring Castilian (Anagrama), Czech (No Limit), 2016, at the Palais de Justice, Adélaïde confronts the 9782709666268 / 2020 / 300 pages / 20,00 € English (UK: MacLehose Press, USA: man who destroyed her life. Europa Editions), German (Hanser Berlin), Greek (Stereoma), Italian 9782246815891 / 2018 / 256 pages / 18,50 € (Edizioni E/O)
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Fille Le choix des apparences
GIRL CHOOSING Bitter, intense, and in the end, luminous, the story WHAT THEY SEE of a human being unlucky enough to be born a woman in a society and an era dominated by men. The shattering story of a lawyer, tormented by her past, who makes a fresh new start. Laurence Barraqué was born in 1959 into a middle-class family in Normandy. Very early on, her parents made it Camille is a brilliant, formidable Toulouse lawyer who clear to her that girls are inferior to boys. This message specializes in familial cases. One day, a tragic event at the was further confirmed at school, in dance class, where- office rattles her convictions. Shaken, she seeks refuge ver language imposed the male gender as dominant. In in the village where she grew up. On a whim, she starts this novel, Camille Laurens depicts the life of a woman working as an assistant in a local cookie factory. So what as she faces the changes in French society over the last if she’s overqualified? It’ll be a healthy change of pace for Camille Laurens 40 years: major issues related to women’s education, Martine Delomme her. To turn a new leaf, Camille will change her life, meet the persistence of male domination, and the passing on new people... and confront the ghosts that have haunted of feminist values to younger generations. her for years. 9782072734007 / 2020 / 240 pages / 19,50 € 9782258162136 / 2020 / 360 pages / 20,00 €
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Mes bien chères sœurs Les hordes invisibles
MY DEAREST SISTERS THE UNSEEN HORDES
A hard-hitting manifesto about the modern situation: “Any sexual assault committed with violence, structures of domination between men and women, by surprise, or under threat or coercion constitutes and the importance of female solidarity in overcoming sexual agression. Any act of sexual penetration them. of any kind committed against another person with violence, by surprise, or under threat or coercion In France, the fourth feminist wave has begun, and the constitutes rape”. participants aren’t just activists anymore, but ordinary Articles 222-22 and 222-23 of the Penal Code women. In this short, incisive text, Chloé Delaume tackles the questions of feminism’s renewal and the extinction of Alex is a cop and a single mom. She works for the the patriarchy now underway. What has happened since Sex Crimes and Offenders Squad, partnered with Mar- the #MeToo movement? Where to next? This is a history co, also secretly her partner in life. Their daily routine? Chloé Delaume of women and feminism, but also a memoir of trauma. As Louise Mey Harassment, rape, domestic violence, indecent assault... a child, the author’s father murdered her mother in front and cases that finally come to trial two, three, or five years of her. The experience lends Delaume a certain authority. later and result in dismissals most of the time. Rights sold Rights sold Sometimes you have to fight to keep on fighting, though. Catalan (Spain) 9782021347111 / 2019 / 132 pages / 13,50 € German (Suhrkamp) Everyone’s got their own way to keep themselves going. FIND OUT MORE FIND OUT MORE For Alex, it’s beer, her daughter, the statistics that she keep repeating like a mantra. For Marco, it’s Alex, even if > 20,000 copies sold in France > Another novel available from he still won’t admit they’re in a relationship. Louise Mey on the same theme, with the same characters: Les ravagé(e)s 9782265117976 / 2018 / 443 pages / 19,90 € [The Ravaged]
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Avec Bastien Petite table, sois mise !
WITH BASTIEN LITTLE TABLE, “Just as my gaze settled on him, never to leave, SET YOURSELF! he was in profile, turned away, in nothing but his combat boots, busy spreading the proof of his pleasure “I was seven years old the first time I saw my father over the angelic face of a very nice young man dressed as a woman.” who’d worked furiously to procure it.” In a series of erotic tableaux where the joy and serious- At the heart of this book lies a mystery: that of a boy from ness of the situation struggle for the upper hand, Anne a gay porn movie, watched over and over again, visually Serre gives us a game of excess and bad behavior more devoured. A boy who seems to show everything – body, apt to enchant than unsettle. Early on, the “table with the skin, ass – even as he hides what is most important: his gleaming disc” acts as both an erotic object and a means story, his life, his soul. All we know about the narrator of of divination, charged with messages that our heroine, Mathieu Riboulet this novel is that he loves boys and porn. But through this Anne Serre once grown up, will be driven to decode. This mysterious obsessive voyeur, withdrawn from the world and locked up and bewitching novel has the charm and deep resonance inside himself – through his penetrating, generous gaze of a fairy tale. – we slowly unravel the mystery of the boy in the movie. Rights sold English (USA: New Directions), Spanish 9782864326885 / 2012 / 64 pages / 6,80 € 9782864326113 / 2010 / 128 pages / 14,00 € (Anagrama) FIND OUT MORE > Shortlisted for the Prix Femina 2012
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Préfère l’impair Les Infidèles ODD COUPLINGS Dominique Sylvain THE UNFAITHFUL
“Splendidly written: cynical, gemlike, unexpected. “An explosive thriller about love, adultery, and A true delight to read.” Marie-France infidelity in the internet era, told through the portraits of three women.” François Busnel, La Grande Librairie Stéphane Billon lives with Florence. After eight years DeS together, Florence wants a child. Exam results reveal LeS TV24 journalist Salomé Jolain is murdered while infiDèleS Stéphane is sterile. So Florence decides to stay with ROMAN investigating an adultery case. Her aunt, Alice Kléber, is Stéphane but have a child with Patrick, her lifelong the founder of lovalibi.com, a site that provides alibis to homosexual friend. With this odd menage, Claude Habib adulterous couples. To Captain Barnier, a loving father, turns readers into voyeurs fascinated by the relationships and the alluring Lieutenant Maze, this connection is no that settle into bitterness among the heroes, or rather, mere coincidence. As their investigation proceeds, Bar- the anti-heroes of this story. The story of an era where nier struggles with his feelings for Maze, aware that their Claude Habib efficiency and profitability have devoured our souls. Dominique Sylvain feelings cannot be allowed to impinge upon these case. 9791097417604 / 2020 / 416 pages / 7,50 € 9791097417024 / 2018 / 359 pages / 19,00 € FIND OUT MORE FIND OUT MORE > The first novel by essayist and feminist > Dominique Sylvain’s work has been Claude Habib translated into over fifteen languages, and several of her books have been adapted for film
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Allah au féminin - Le Féminin La malédiction d’être fille et la femme dans la tradition soufie ALLAH AND FEMININITY. THE CURSE OF GIRLHOOD What’s one of the most dangerous things in the world? WOMEN IN THE SUFI Being a girl. No one can say for sure how many girls are subjected TRADITION to incest, or killed at birth. 200 million undergo genital mutilation; 60 million suffer sexual violence at school or A little-known facet of Islam that restores religious on their way there. 1 in 9 girls is married before the age of legitimacy to the concept of equal rights between men 15; 100,000 fall victim to sex trafficking in the USA alone. and women under Islam. Foeticide, infanticide, and sexual abuse underestimated Éric Geoffroy explores an overlooked Muslim tradition that all over the world, mutilations, human trafficking, child exalts woman as a creator in God’s image, humanity’s marriage, so-called honour killings… Éric Geoffroy primordial androgynous nature, and the Virgin Mary’s DOMINIQUE SIGAUD Dominique Sigaud reveals the nine-tenths of the iceberg “prophetic” dimension. Passed down by authors such as we never normally see. Rumi, Ibn Arabi, and Emir Abdelkader, this tradition has long been confined to poetry and mysticism, as women 9782226440938 / 2019 / 240 pages / 19,90 € are far less revered in daily practice. But recent decades have seen Sufism become the instrument of women’s increasing participation in prayers and studies. We are now witnessing the appearance of distinguished female spiritual teachers, profiled in this book. 9782226443502 / 2020 / 256 pages / 19,00 €
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Sortir du trou, lever la tête Le syndrome d’imposture LIFT YOUR HEAD UP IMPOSTOR SYMDROME AND LOOK AROUND: Why do women all over the world lack confidence in themselves?
IT’S A NEW WORLD First identified by two American psychologists in the 1970s, impostor syndrome is an extreme lack of How to escape our narrowminded notions of what sex self-confidence whose symptoms include difficulty can be and devise a new erotic repertoire. in valuing one’s own talents and achievements. Today’s Modern sexuality is seized with great uncertainty, shaken women are trapped in a paradox: they consistently by the questions the MeToo movement has raised, but get the best results in school, land comparable jobs also beset by unrealistic demands placed upon us all, and to men, and yet continue to doubt their abilities. This by an international decline in libido. Sadly, sexuality is now Elisabeth Cadoche, book combines scientific data with clinical case studies Maïa Mazaurette conceived of as a matter of orifices, reducing women to Anne de Montarlot and interviews with famous women. Its purpose: to give voids to be filled. Part One of this book traces how histo- women the tools to become aware of their own intrinsic ry, culture, and psychoanalysis have drastically narrowed value, and stop basing their self-worth on the opinions Rights sold FIND OUT MORE our sexual practices. Part Two lays out a practical and of others. Chinese (contract pending), > 10,000 copies sold optimistic approach to forging a new sexuality based on Dutch (Ten Have), Italian (Longanesi), ethics, imagination, and compassion. 9791037500861 / 2021 (forthcoming) Spanish (Peninsula/Planeta) 320 pages / 19,90 € 9782843379291 / 2020 / 416 pages / 21,00 €
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Le triangle et l’Hexagone - Le genre du capital - Comment la famille Réflexions sur une identité noire reproduit les inégalités THE TRIANGLE AND THE CAPITAL AS GENUS: HOW HEXAGON: REFLECTIONS FAMILIES REPRODUCE ON BLACK IDENTITY INEQUALITIES
At the intersection of the Atlantic triangular slave Contrary to the usual image of the modern family as trade and the Gallic Hexagone, Maboula Soumahoro an emotional haven, this essay traces the resurgence recounts her own intellectual journey as well as the of inheritance-based inequalities under 21st-century social, philosophical, and in short, human difficulties capitalism. she ran into along the way before finally being able Why do women accumulate fewer assets than men? Why to define her identity as a black woman.. Maboula Soumahoro Céline Bessière, Sibylle Gollac do marital separations impoverish women while they do “A daughter of France and the Atlantic, I find myself by not prevent men from becoming wealthy? ancestry, origins, and personal history in the cultural, The answers to these questions lie in the legal intricacies political, and intellectual vastness of the ‘Black Atlantic’, of familial wealth. Such an approach implies breaking a space profoundly shaped by history. Here I evoke the with the common conception of the family as an emotio- space, often called ‘triangular’, that unprecedentedly and nal haven of peace in a brutal capitalist world. In reality, permanently connected three continents: Europe, Afri- the family should be seen as an economic institution ca, and the Americas. It encompasses Ivory Coast and unto itself: one that produces, circulates, controls, and the Africa of my parents, and France, my birthplace and evaluates assets. One whose true purpose is revealed current home after many years in North America. Each of during matters of inheritance or marital separation. these places has its own interpretation of the black body and experience. I give you mine.” 9782348044380 / 2020 / 336 pages / 21,00 € 9782348041952 / 2020 / 160 pages / 16,00 €
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Sociologies du genre (2e édition) Les Règles du jeu - Ce que toutes les femmes devraient savoir pour SOCIOLOGY réussir au travail OF GENDER - 2ND ED. THE RULES OF THE GAME: A complete overview of the concept of gender, illustrated with many concrete examples. WHAT EVERY WOMAN Growing up, working, choosing a partner, having a family, NEEDS TO KNOW TO SUCCEED enjoying leisure time, raising children: gender affects key moments in the course of an individual life. IN THE WORKPLACE This book reveals how gender differences are construc- ted and legitimized by contemporary society. It also Take back control of the game, get what you deserve describes the primary venues of socialisation that col- for your work, and make it on your own terms! Marie Buscatto laborate in producing them: school, peers, family, media, Clara Moley A former stock trader, Clara Moley soon had to face etc. Finally, it provides insight into the transgressions sexism in her male-dominated work environment, and underway in our societies and the potential social trans- obstacles both inner and and outer that stood between her formations they herald. and success. This book is the story of her awakening and 9782200623838 / 2019 / 228 pages / 17,90 € the lessons she learned in order to take back control of her professional life: ask for what you want, highlight your work, haggle, get over imposter syndrome and the desire to be a model pupil. Based on her experiences, Moley has developed a method she calls “micro-empowerment” to help other women surmount everyday challenges: one day, one meeting, one negotiation at a time. 9782100807116 / 2020 / 224 pages / 17,00 €
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Transitions Pour la fin du sexisme !
TRANSITIONS LET’S END SEXISM!
How do we leave binaries behind? Feminism in a post-#MeToo era.
With today’s medicine and therapeutic procedures, we can Women: one of today’s burning topics. The news seems alter our anatomies to suit the gender we believe is our like a sea of information relating to feminism and women. own. But many individuals never managed to reconcile As if these topics were in the very air when the #MeToo themselves with their identities, torn by ambivalence scandal broke out, unleashing an impetus toward equa- between biology and social roles. Forming an identity is lity. Since then, everything having to do with women’s like putting together a puzzle, each of whose pieces are lives has resurfaced: their place in the workforce, equal taken from your familial and social surroundings. Psy- pay and employment, hiring diversity and the concept of chiatrist and psychoanalyst Serge Hefez has written an quotas. The issues of female leadership, careers, and ambitious and accessible book urging us to do away with management. Parenthood, couplehood, concerns about Serge Hefez the preconception that knowing who you are means fitting ANGÉLIQUE GÉRARD motherhood and fatherhood. into a existing categories. 9782212572674 / 2019 / 322 pages / 18,00 € 9782702166468 / 2020 (forthcoming) FIND OUT MORE 260 pages / 17,90 € > 1,500 copies sold since publication in October 2019
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Clit révolution : manuel d’activisme Gravidanza : Féminologie, Tome 2 féministe CLIT REVOLUTION: GRAVIDANZA: A MANUAL FOR FEMINIST FEMINOLOGY II Revisits the most striking themes of a politically ACTIVISM engaged theoretical work from 1968, disseminated in debates, conferences, and publications A practical guide to activism for a new generation by the Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (MLF) of feminists. and the group Psychanalyse et Politique.
“I’m a feminist and I’d like to do something concrete, but I “At first, it was hard to hear the voice in question. It was don’t know where to start. Do you have any advice?” muffled by the furor of campaigns and controversies. But After seeing this kind of message on their social Antoinette Fouque, after reading There Are Two Sexes, that voice is now all Sarah Constantin, networks, feminist activists Sarah Constantin and Elvire I can hear, more clearly and audibly than the rest. As a Elvire Duvelle Charles, Duvelle-Charles realized they needed to write a book. The Preface by Alain Touraine voice, it’s insistent yet reserved, full of passion and ima- Alice Des (illustrations) next generation of feminists needed a practical guide to ginative creativity, rich with secrets and revelations. I’ve activism, one that told them how to transform their ideas never heard anything like it, except in Rimbaud... What into concrete actions and showed them that every last one I’m trying to say goes much farther than recognizing the of them had the means to change society, either on their importance of a single thread of feminism. It is about own or as part of a group. sensing the transition, or rather, transformation, of one culture into another, in which this new feminism played 9782721007254 / 2020 / 200 pages / 16,00 € a central role.” Alain Touraine 9782721005656 / 2007 / 370 pages / 15,25 €
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La charge sexuelle Âme de sorcière THE SEXUAL WORKLOAD SOUL OF A WITCH
Desire, pleasure, contraception, STDs… welcome Witches are back! to the sexual workload. A subversive symbol of the feminist revolution, witches In this powerful and political critique, Clémentine Gallot have made a noteworthy comeback in the last few years. and her co-author Caroline Michel inventory the various Ready to challenge our choices, our approach to the world, forms the sexual workload takes in intimacy: being ready our bodies, our rationality, and our sexuality, they have to please, worrying about our partner’s libido and our own, taught us to learn from their history, their lore, and their looking for information about a more fulfilling sexual life, powers to discover our own. taking charge of birth control... In showing how the sexual workload can be comparable to the idea of “mental load”, 9782263148873 / 2017 / 240 pages / 18,90 € Clémentine Gallot, this book offer keys and tips to help everyone toward a happy, open and inclusive sexuality of their own invention. Odille Chabrillac Caroline Michel 9782412055250 / 2020 / 208 pages / 14,95 € FIND OUT MORE > 45,000 copies sold
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On ne naît pas soumise, on le devient Les corps abstinents NO ONE IS BORN BODIES IN ABSTINENCE SUBMISSIVE, “I spoke with men and women who, like myself, no longer make love.”
THEY BECOME THAT WAY In the competitive arenas of personal development, enter- tainment and leisure, consumption and pleasure (and its On the submissiveness and oppression of women. by-product, the obligation to ‘get your rocks off’ with just Taboo in philosophy and often overlooked in feminism, about everything), a life without sex is an invisible life. But women’s submissiveness has never been analyzed in voluntary or not, abstinence begins as a perception, a fee- detail, in the full complexity of its lived experience. ling. Over the course of a year, Emmanuelle Richard met Following in the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir, Manon with women and men who entrusted her with intimate Garcia powerfully tackles the question: because unders- details of their sex lives. Their anonymized words inform Manon Garcia tanding why women submit of their own free will is a Emmanuelle Richard her own experience of emptiness. In every instance, one necessary precursor to any form of liberation. overriding issue stands out for those who no longer make love: the lack of a sense of touch. Rights sold 9782081439412 / 2018 / 272 pages / 19,00 € English, German, Japanese, Spanish 9782081504370 / 2020 / 288 pages / 19,00 € FIND OUT MORE > 13,500 copies sold
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Femmes et littérature Une histoire Femmes et littérature - Une histoire culturelle, tome I : culturelle, tome II : XIXe - XXIe siècle. Moyen Âge - XVIIIe siècle Francophonies WOMEN AND LITERATURE, WOMEN AND LITERATURE, A CULTURAL HISTORY A CULTURAL HISTORY VOLUME 1: MIDDLE AGES - 18TH CENTURY 19TH - 21ST CENTURY. FRANCOPHONIA
An unprecedented and politically relevant study on the An unprecedented and politically relevant study on the place of women in literature, analyzing in depth their place of women in literature, analyzing in depth their exceedingly slow evolution from object to subject, exceedingly slow evolution from object to subject, from the Middle Ages to our era. from the Middle Ages to our era. Collective The result of several years of research carried out collec- Collective The result of several years of research carried out collec- tively by ten French and American academics, this book is tively by ten French and American academics, this book is the first comprehensive survey of women’s works in lite- the first comprehensive survey of women’s works in lite- rature, from the Middle Ages to the 21st century in France rature, from the Middle Ages to the 21st century in France and Francophone countries. These two volumes cover not and Francophone countries. These two volumes cover not only works in the classic literary genres, but also essays, only works in the classic literary genres, but also essays, correspondence, diaries and autobiographies, journalism, correspondence, diaries and autobiographies, journalism, popular literature, and children’s literature. This overview popular literature, and children’s literature. This overview calls for a full-scale reassessment of literary works by calls for a full-scale reassessment of literary works by men and women, and for a new understanding of French men and women, and for a new understanding of French and Francophone literature. and Francophone literature. 9782070465705 / 2020 / 1040 pages / 13,50 € 9782072889707 / 2020 / 592 pages / 10,30 €
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L’égalité sans condition Quand le cerveau devient masculin UNCONDITIONAL EQUALITY WHEN THE BRAIN “A call for emancipation from the capitalist, BECOMES MALE heteronormative, and racist ideas of today’s society.” Cheek Magazine The male brain is not built the same way as its female counterpart. A politically incorrect yet scientifitically Political philosopher and committed feminist Réjane accurate book. Sénac challenges the conventional notions of equality as a myth to be deconstructed in order to work towards an Genderless at conception, the brain becomes more mas- unconditional equality: beyond gender, social, ethnic, and culine in the embryo and then, during infancy, is further racial origins; and religious or sexual preference. Sénac altered by a veritable tsunami of hormones. One of the critiques the motto of the French republic, demonstrating subject’s finest specialists lucidly details the exact extent that equality can only exist if it is freed from empty talk to which genes and sexual hormones, in concert with the Réjane Sénac about the performance of diversity. Women must be equal Jacques Balthazart environment, influence boys’ behavior, demonstrating to men in principle, not because they bring something how the male brain changes over time. more to the table. Jacques Balthazart is a neuroendocrinologist and eme- Rights sold ritus researcher with the Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Japanese 9782374251479 / 2019 / 96 pages / 10,00 € Research Group at the University of Liège. FIND OUT MORE 9782379310362 / 2019 / 256 pages / 21,90 € > 2,000 copies sold > Nominated for the 2019 Knowledge Prize
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Rupture(s) Une histoire du féminisme de l’Antiquité grecque à nos jours TURNING POINTS A HISTORY OF FEMINISM Whether joyful or tragic, visible or invisible, turning points punctuate our lives, transform us, FROM ANCIENT GREECE and make us question ourselves.
For philosopher Claire Marin, our lives are defined as TO THE PRESENT ERA much by the beaten path as when we leave it, in the Although feminism as a political movement came promises we make and break alike. Birth, mourning, about in 19th-century Europe, feminist ideas have divorce, new love, wanderlust: our strayings and hesita- implicitly or explicitly been expressed throughout the tions unsettle our self-image and rattle our certainies. world since Antiquity, against dominant misogynistic But they also remind us life is fundamentally unpredic- discourses and customs. table, and strengthen our capacity to deal with uncer- Claire Marin tainty, work with disasters, surmount them, and start Séverine Auffret Alternating profiles, stories, and analysis, Séverine over again. Claire Marin is a philosophy professor for Auffret traces the evolution of feminist ideas from their post-baccalaureate students preparing for the Grandes first appearances through more contemporary issues Rights sold écoles and an associate member of the École Normale Rights sold in this lively and unprecedented tome. Spanish (World) Supérieure-Ulm. Spanish (World) Readers will meet Amazons, Simone de Beauvoir, Sap- FIND OUT MORE pho, and Diderot, and be transported from ancient Egypt 9791032903360 / 2019 / 160 pages / 16,00 € to the Pre-Columbian Americas. A philosopher and editor > 20,000 copies sold of 17th-century philosopher Gabrielle Suchon’s oeuvre, Séverine Auffret teaches a seminar in feminist studies at the People’s University of Caen. 9791032901113 / 2018 / 700 pages / 24,00 €
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Une histoire des sexualités Les revers de l’amour - une histoire de la rupture HISTORY OF SEXUALITIES LOVE’S PITFALLS: Accessible, rich, and as inventive in its factual research as in its critical examination, this history of sexualities A HISTORY OF BREAKING UP traces the great stages and evolutions of norms and attitudes. Sabine Melchior-Bonnet studies breakups by asking questions about the basis of falling in and out of love, A “totalizing social fact“, sexuality stands at the inter- the parts played by cultural and religious conventions, section of several kinds of historical approaches: social, the burden of morality, and the arsenals of legislation. anthropological, cultural, linguistic. It is impossible to speak of sexuality today without using the tools forged in From Héloïse and Abélard to Onassis and Callas, by way studying the history of gender. More than ever, sexuality of George Sand and Alfred de Musset, the infidelities of has become an essential field of history. Louis XIV, or the divorce of Lady Di and Charles, Sabine Sylvie Steinberg (dir.) Sylvie Steinberg is the Director of Studies at EHESS, spe- Sabine Melchior-Bonnet Melchior-Bonnet gives us the chapter that has been cializing in the modern era. She is a member of the journal missing from the story of romantic relationships. A story Clio - Women, Gender, History. that, naturally, ends poorly. Sabine Melchior-Bonnet is a Rights sold Rights sold historian specializing in the history of emotion. Among Brazil (World) 9782130729792 / 2018 / 528 pages / 22,00 € Russian (World) her books are Les Grands Hommes et leur mère [Great Men and Their Mothers] as well as histories of mirrors and frivolity. She co-edited a Histoire du mariage [The History of Marriage]. 9782130818502 / 2019 / 480 pages / 22,00 €
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Histoire mondiale des féminismes Simone de Beauvoir WORLD HISTORY SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR OF FEMINISM A privileged witness to her era, Simone de Beauvoir influenced a broad range of subjects, including Introduction to an important current topic written gender studies, and occupies an eminent place by Florence Rochefort, a renowned specialist in contemporary thought. in the history of feminism, women, and gender. Éric Touya de Marenne revisits the protean life and work of The late 18th-century revolutions first brought up the Simone de Beauvoir, demonstrating how it can enlighten matter of rights, citizenship, and women’s liberation. us and deepen our understanding of the great issues of Various forms of feminism took root on every continent to our time: human freedom and responsibility, the female free half the human population to speak and act. Florence condition, the fight for justice, and dialogue between Rochefort traces these transnational interactions and the peoples. Éric Touya de Marenne teaches 20th-century Florence Rochefort major characteristics of modes of thought and mobili- Éric Touya de Marenne literature at Clemson University in South Carolina (USA). zation against gender inequality and in favor of female freedom, as well as new gender norms. 9782130814658 / 2019 / 128 pages / 9,00 € Rights sold Rights sold Korean, Turkish 9782130732846 / 2018 / 160 pages / 9,00 € Chinese
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C’est mon corps Je ne serais pas arrivée là si... IT’S MY BODY! I’D NEVER HAVE MADE “When it comes to women’s health, there are no stupid IT THIS FAR IF… questions, or, for that matter, forbidden ones: only questions it’s perfectly OK to ask.” Le Monde journalist Annick Cojean interviews 25 women on the defining moments of their lives This book answers all the questions today’s women have that made them who they are today. about their bodies and their health: a simple, concrete response to the current crisis in medical standards of Annick Cojean asked 25 exceptional women to complete care. Women everywhere want to reclaim power over this sentence: “I’d never have made it this far if…” their bodies and their health, asserting their right to Everyone willingly replied. From Virginie Despentes to well-considered answers. This book is for all women, Patti Smith, Marianne Faithfull to Nicole Kidman, Vanes- regardless of age, sexual orientation, or whether or not sa Redgrave to Brigitte Bardot. From Iranian lawyer and Martin Winckler they want to bear children. There are key chapters on such Annick Cojean Nobel Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi to feminist Eve Ensler… major topics as menstruation, contraception, pregnancy, These women tell their stories with disarming sincerity. invasive practices during childbirth, etc. What shaped them? What have they learned in life? What Martin Winckler is a writer and feminist doctor. Rights sold can they share with young women, who will, in their wake, German (Aufbau), Korean (Millet) struggle to make their voices heard in a world where the 9782378801267 /2020 (forthcoming) FIND OUT MORE rules are made by men? 400 pages / 22,90 € > Adapted into a play by Judith Henry 9782246815808 / 2018 / 320 pages / 20,00 € for Le Théâtre Libre
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S’émanciper par les armes ? Les mots et les femmes Sur la violence politique des femmes SISTERS IN ARMS: WOMEN WORDS AND WOMEN A sociolinguistic approach to the female condition.
AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE How do women speak? When amongst themselves? When spoken to? And how are they spoken of? Do men and wo- Interdisciplinary readings on armed feminist revolt. men speak the same language? What role do sexual me- Western democracies are experiencing a wave of revolu- taphors, denigrating connotations, and sexually charged tionary violence. Armed Far-Leftist groups are becoming insults play in maintaining a sexist ideology? This study involved in social protest as a political tool, and so are wo- explores the sexual diversity of language as a cultural, men. A climate like that of the 1970s, sites of resistance, rather than “natural” phenomenon. and the fight for freedom are conducive to renegotiating 9782228921602 / 2018 / 272 pages / 8,50 € Caroline Guibet Lafaye, gender roles. Today’s women are also at the heart of a national struggle to liberate certain Turkish and Marina Yaguello Alexandra Frenod Kurdish Leftist organizations, just as they once were in Latin America and South Asia. FIND OUT MORE FIND OUT MORE > Published on OpenEdition, a platform 9782858313273 / 2019 / 238 pages / 25,00 € > 6,000 copies sold for open-access academic books and journals > Print run: 350 copies/Sold: 178
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Les insoumises La véritable histoire des femmes, de l’Antiquité à nos jours REBELS THE TRUE HISTORY OF 18 profiles of exceptional women, from Antiquity to our era. WOMEN FROM ANCIENT Ever heard of Hypathia, 4th-century mathematician and philosopher? Nicole Lepaute and Hélène Metzger, whose TIMES TO THE PRESENT work revolutionized the world of science? Or Victoria An introduction to women in world history by the finest Woodhull, who dared run for president of the U.S.A. when French historians. women weren’t even allowed to vote yet? Greek, Italian, French, English, American, or German, these women Queens, courtesans, nuns, geishas, mothers, intellec- all had one thing in common: astonishing willpower and tuals, prostitutes, laborers, feminists: this unprecedented détermination. That’s what it takes to live the way you want work gathers the finest specialists on women’s history to Jean Haechler in a misogynistic society. Yannick Ripa, Collective tell us their true stories. The authors deconstruct received Here are the stories of 18 exceptional women, from Anti- notions of women that still affect us today, detailing their quity to our own times, each more amazing than the last. lives from Athens to ancient Rome, Medieval or Revolutio- FIND OUT MORE nary France, 18th-century Japan, or 19th-century Paris; 9782369426738 / 2018 / 256 pages / 8,00 € > Contributors include Alain Corbin, in palaces, homes, convents, workplaces; at war or in the Jacques Le Goff, Mona Ozouf, streets fighting for their rights and lives. Michelle Perrot, etc. 9782369428534 / 2019 / 288 pages / 19,90 €
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La tyrannie du genre Le privilège occidental THE TYRANNY OF GENDER WESTERN PRIVILEGE
Isn’t it about time we freed ourselves from gender? Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai.
Although sociologists have extensively studied gender in Dubai, the crossroads of neoliberal globalization, is the order to reveal power structures, brandishing it at every incarnation par excellence of the advantages associated opportunity has paradoxically reinforced the idea that with being a white Westerner. In Dubai, Westerners stand men and women are not individuals but first and foremost out as a social group unto themselves, structurally pri- representatives of their sex. In the name of distinctions vileged in the job market and the private sphere, despite wrongly thought of as natural, we are assigned roles that other categories of gender, class, race, and sexuality. are specific, stereotypical, and unequal. Through accounts from over a hundred inhabitants and expatriates, this work offers readers a unique and inci- 9782724621402 / 2017 / 309 pages / 17,00 € sive glimpse into the current reconfigurations of Western Marie Duru-Bellat Amélie Le Renard hegemony. 9782724624304 / 2019 / 272 pages / 24,00 € Rights sold English
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Des hommes justes On ne naît pas femme, on le devient JUST MEN NO ONE’S BORN A WOMAN, From the formation of patriarchal societies to feminist YOU BECOME ONE leaders and struggles, a sociological and historical fresco that embraces all eras and continents, What does it mean to be a woman, at every stage of life? even exploring prehistoric societies. Fifty years after feminism began, where are we now? The Built up over millennia of stereotypes and institutions, the struggle by and for women is still diversifying to this day, model of the traditional male is obsolete. Old-fashioned expressed on social networks with slogans and demons- and harmful as any machine designed to dominate wo- trations. But where are we really, in our day-to-day lives? men (and men whose masculinity is judged illegitimate), This book is a plea to liberate the so-called “ordinary” its pernicious influence persists. Gender inequality is still woman: everyone who isn’t a hero our out there in the rampant worldwide. What is the next utopian project, trenches all the time. Fabienne Brugère explores what it Ivan Jablonka then? To invent new types of manhood. To transform mas- Fabienne Brugère means to be a girl, a young woman, and a woman in her culinity so as to make it compatible with women’s rights prime, in today’s world. and incompatible with patriarchal hierarchies. How can Rights sold we ensure that respect women’s rights? When it comes FIND OUT MORE 9782234086210 / 2019 / 224 pages / 17,50 € Castilian Spanish (World), English to gender equality, what is a “good guy”? > English synopsis available (World), German, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil) 9782021401561 / 2019 / 448 pages / 22,00 € FIND OUT MORE > 25,000 copies sold in France
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En avant toutes ! Place aux femmes ! 120 dessins de presse 60 dessins de presse WOMEN OF THE WORLD, MAKE WAY FOR WOMEN! UNITE! 120 EDITORIAL 60 EDITORIAL CARTOONS CARTOONS Cartooning for Peace, an international network of over 160 editorial cartoonists, uses humor to fight for freedom In the wake of the #MeToo movement, this book and cultural respect. collects 120 editorial cartoons on the current situation Even today, women’s rights are too often challenged or of women all around the globe. ignored. Élisabeth Badinter reminds us that, though there Although our society seems to be engaged in reconsid- have been a few shake-ups recently, women still have a Laure Adler, ering the status of women, with an eye toward equal Elisabeth Badinter, long way to go before their rights are respected. rights for all, respect for the rights of individual women Selected by Cartooning for Peace, these 60 editorial Cartooning for Peace is still far from guaranteed. This collection, prefaced Cartooning for Peace cartoons from around the world paint a portrait of the by journalist and women’s history specialist Laure Adler, injustices and violence women face every day, whether in Rights sold FIND OUT MORE is a collaboration with Amnesty International. Its 120 edi- education, sexuality, work, or religion. > 5 titles in the large-format series torial cartoons, selected by Cartooning for Peace, paint Korean, Spanish 9782742449385 / 2017 / 120 pages / 12,00 € a portrait of women worldwide and their plight in sup- FIND OUT MORE port of feminist struggle, while denouncing violence and > 10 titles in the small-format series repression perpetrated upon women. > 12,000 copies sold 9782742461585 / 2020 / 144 pages / 19,50 €
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Kamasutra On ne nait pas féministe, on le dévient KAMA SUTRA YOU AREN’T BORN “Ever since #MeToo, we’ve shared everything, even A FEMINIST, pleasure!”
A chic and contemporary Kama Sutra to help today’s wo- YOU BECOME ONE man find mutual pleasure with her partner. A must-read for feminists who want to make a difference Featuring 60 positions, sensually and tastefully illustrated in their everyday lives. by Petite Bohème, this Kama Sutra is for every woman who aspires to express her own femininity and increase This is the book women have been waiting for! Powerful, her pleasure in total sensual freedom. Lucile Bellan has political, and perfect for the Feminist 4th Wave, just like its carefully selected postures from classics to naughty author! Julia Pietri speaks to all women of all ages, in lan- taboos, adding a short preface to each one, to put you in guage freed from stereotypes and censorship. Parenting, Lucille Bellan, Petite Bohème the mood and heighten your senses. A detailed descrip- Julia Pietri sex, self-confidence, pregnancy, work... she covers every tion of the position follows. A decidedly feminist approach imaginable subject, providing an overview of the condition that represents both sexes equally! of women today. FIND OUT MORE FIND OUT MORE A fervent feminist who supports male/female equality, > 3,000 copies sold 9791028516895 / 2020 / 144 pages / 19,90 € > 3,800 copies sold Julia Pietri is especially active in the domain of women’s rights to sexual freedom. Angry is an illustrator, activist, and feminist whose eponymous Instagram account has 30,000 fans. 9791028516871 / 2020 / 192 pages / 19,00 €
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Les infréquentables Celle qui a dit fuck TROUBLEMAKERS THE GIRL WHO SAID Amazing women, forgotten pioneers in their fields, “FUCK IT!” finally get their say. Learn to say “Fuck it!” Discover, in this beautifuly illustrated book, 40 profiles of women from around the world who were the baddest Discover the diary of a young woman, warts and all, who ladies of their time. decided to say “Fuck it!” Be privy to her ups, down, rou- Among them: Hypatia, a greek neoplasticist philosopher, tines, and rituals as she learns to be a free, uninhibited astronomer, and mathematician; Maud Wagner, the first woman. After all, Beyoncé didn’t become Beyoncé in female tattoo artist in the United States; Mary Anning, one day! a palaeontologist and fossil collector; Trota of Salerno, 9782263153297 / 2018 / 224 pages / 16,90 € a doctor and surgeon during the Middle Ages; and more! Anne-Sophie Lesage, Collective 9782412062029 / 2020 / 192 pages / 20,95 € Fanny Lesage
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Chic ! Le guide qui donne du style CHIC! A GUIDE TO STYLE
A guide for all women who want to be chic and feel good about themselves, this book demystifies fashion while enhancing the pleasure we take in dressing up. CHIC is a book for everyone going through a change of image or lifestyle. It teaches you to put together a fashio- nable, modern, and effective wardrobe with a touch of whimsy and a smidgen of sexy. Once you hit fifty as a woman, you’re free to pick and choose, reinvent yourself, have fun, mix it up, create your own style. This book also provides tips and tricks for more mindful consumption. Christine Lombard, Christine Lombard and Lucille Renie dispense valuable Lucille Renie advice when it comes to buying clothes that will become classics, and knowing how to say no to things that aren’t cut out for us. An absolute must-have! 9782749164243 / 2019 / 208 pages / 25,00 €
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