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Bureau international de l’édition française115, bd Saint-Germain - 75006 Paris, Francet. +33 (0)1 44 41 13 13 - f. +33 (0)1 46 34 63 [email protected] - www.bief.org

June 2020

GENDER, SEXISM & STEREOTYPES A SELECTION OF FRENCH TITLES

Although almost all book fairs and industry events were canceled from March through August 2020, professionals in publishing the world over have continued to work remotely with their colleagues. As publication schedules gradually resume in a number of countries, we can all can take some time at last to discover the finest books from around the world.

To aid you in your search, the Bureau international de l’édition française (BIEF) is delighted to present an interactive selection of 153 titles in the rubric Gender, Sexism,

and Stereotypes for readers of all ages, all recent or forthcoming from over 90 French publishers.

You will no doubt be familiar with some of these authors, already well-known for their handling of these sensitive themes. But you will also encounter new voices addressing these vital and often all-too-contemporary topics.

Whether a work by a first-time author or a well-known name, or a title to which rights have already been sold in several languages, what you will find here are books

specifically chosen for their strong potential to succeed in translation in a variety of markets and cultures.

You may browse through titles individually or use our interactive links to consult our catalogue by category.

For more information on any title, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the relevant publisher’s rights department using the handy contact info provided.

Happy browsing! Here’s hoping you make some terrific finds!

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June 2020

PERSONAL PICKS A SELECTION OF FRENCH TITLES

Although practically all fairs and professional events were canceled between March and August 2020, book professionals throughout the world have continued to work from a distance with their partners. As publications progressively resume in numerous countries, it is finally possible to take a bit more time to discover the best in international publishing.

To help you in that respect, the BIEF (Bureau International de l’Édition Française) is very pleased to present you with a selection of nearly 130 Personal Picks,

chosen by the rights managers of French publishing houses. The titles in question are personal favorites: essential books that marked them from amongst their latest publications or titles from the backlist that they want to showcase.

As you will see, this highly original selection spans all kinds of genres, from adult fiction to children’s literature and from lifestyle to comic books!

First novels or experienced authors, titles whose rights have sometimes

already been sold in many languages… Whatever the case may be, all of these works have a particularly strong potential for translation in numerous markets.

To find out more about each of the titles presented, we have provided the e-mail address of the appropriate person to contact in each publishing house.

Happy reading! We hope that you will share in the rights managers’ enthusiasm for these Personal Picks!

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GENDER, SEXISM & STEREOTYPES A SELECTION OF FRENCH TITLES

> Mission: Princess in Distress... Right?> Princess Kevin> No Means No! Fighting

Sexual Harassment> Calamity Jean> Underwear Day / I’m Wearing Panties> The True Story of Julie,

Who Had a Boy’s Shadow> All of Us!> Yoohoo, Prince Charming?> Ten Women Who Changed the World> Pioneers> Equal Rights for Boys and Girls?

Good Idea!> Awesome Adele

in the Land of Zanytales> Twiggy> 40 Incredible Women> Polka’s Huge Arms> Singing Anna> Hector, the Astounding Strongman

> 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> The Braid, or Lalita’s Journey> Super Go-Getter> What Are You Playing?> Girls Can Do It, Too! / Boys Can Do It, Too!> Things I Do with Dad / Things I Do with Mom> A (Super) Princess’ Guide

to Survival in Hostile Settings> Someday My Prince Will Come… Or Not> A Dream of Freedom> Papa’s Partner> Leon of a Thousand Questions> Super Daddy!> Little Dancers: The Explosive Dance-Off!> GOAL! An Epic Match> My Father’s Mask> Mr. Butterfly> Teaming Up Is Taking Turns: A Hen Tale> Teaming up Is Tolerance: A Hen Tale> A Declaration of the Rights of Girls> In Case of Siege> We Are Family> Last of the Cowboys> Salome and the women who spoke out:

finding your place> Salome and the women who spoke out:

standing up for yourself> Curiosa, Chattie, and Flirtitia

Children's Books P 4 - 27

Comic Books & Graphic P 28 - 39> Women in Science> Camel Joe> AMA: Breath of a Woman> ELZA - Whenever, Cupid! > Evil Witches> Baby 2000> Rose Season> Skin of a Man> I Just Had to Tell You> Crocodiles Are Everywhere> My Name Is Inna: A Ukrainian Childhood> Touché!

> Virgin> Gisèle and Béatrice> Crocodiles> Feminism in Seven Quotes and Slogans> Giant> Emma G. Wildford> Philippina Lomar’s Thrilling Cases> Anuki> Why Aren’t Men and Women Equal Yet?> Miss Charity> Barriers

Young Adult P 40 - 48> Meteor> Felines> The Taste for Kisses> Standing Tall at Night> How Many Steps to the Moon> Rosa the Bold> Who Am I? What Am I?> Golden Girl> Georges, the World, and Me

> Rose’s Rage> I Can Hear Them Coming For Us> Hyphenated> Revenge of the Princesses> Feminists: Who Are They?> Memoirs of a Unicorn> P.O.V. - Point of View> Bruises> Her Name Was Ab Stenson

Essays & Humanities P 61 - 78> Allah and Femininity> The Curse of Girlhood> Lift Your Head Up and Look Around> Impostor Symdrome> The Triangle and the Hexagon:

Reflections on Black Identity> Capital as Genus:

How Families Reproduce Inequalities> Sociology of Gender > The Rules of the Game> Transitions> Let’s End with Sexism!> Clit Revolution: A Manual for Feminist Activism> Gravidanza: Feminology II> The Sexual Workload> Soul of a Witch> No One Is Born Submissive,

They Become That Way> Bodies in Abstinence> Women and Literature, A Cultural History> Unconditional Equality> When the Brain Becomes Male> Turning Points> A History of Feminism

from Ancient Greece to the Present Era> History of Sexualities> Love’s Pitfalls: A History of Breaking Up> World History of Feminism> Simone de Beauvoir> It’s My Body!> I’d Never Have Made It This Far If…> Sisters in Arms: Women and Political Violence> Words and Women> Rebels> The True History of Women> The Tyranny of Gender> Western Privilege> Just Men> No One’s Born a Woman,

You Become One

Literature & Fiction P 49 - 60> 77 - Seine et Marne> Mercy, Mary, Patty> Conception and Other

Misdemeanors> Activistas> Dead-End Voices> The Body Is a Mirage> Dominique> Countless Suns> With Bare Hands> Slutty Red Lips> Right After Love> Too Much Love

> Right Type> Not Like All the Other Women> The Little Girl on the Iceberg> The Witch Complex> Girl> Choosing What They See> My Dearest Sisters> The Unseen Hordes> With Bastien> Little Table, Set Yourself!> Odd Couplings> The Unfaithful

Illustrated Non-Fiction P 79 - 82> Women of the World, Unite! > Make Way for Women! > Kama Sutra> You Aren’t Born a Feminist, You Become One

> Troublemakers> The Girl Who Said “Fuck It!”> Chic!

Juliette Valléry, Anna Aparicio Catala

When a princess disappears, a dragon and a fairy team up to save her. But did she really need saving at all?

MISSION: PRINCESS IN DISTRESS... RIGHT?

Mission Dragon - Princesse en détresse

Doug the dragon is flying along, daydreaming, when he crashes headfirst into Princess Lucille’s grumpy fairy godmother. No time to argue, though: a princess needs saving! She was kidnapped by a knight, the fairy god-mother claims. The next thing poor Doug knows, he’s being dragged off on an adventure. The thing is, Doug can’t stand knights! And the would-be rescuers might have misread the whole situation...

Laurie Jesson [email protected]

ABC Melody

9782368362181 / 2020 (forthcoming)48 pages / 13,50 €

Michaël Escoffier, Roland Garrigue

Rights soldEnglish (World), Spanish (World), Catalan, Chinese (Traditional), Italian, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil)

FIND OUT MORE> 5 international auctions after Bologna 2019

Kevin is a princess. Deal with it!

PRINCESS KEVIN Princesse Kevin

Kevin is a princess. For the school’s masked ball, his sis-ter has lent him her dress and high heels, and his mom her makeup. Now he really looks like a princess! And princesses look so beautiful that surely it must be fun to be one. Or is it? A funny, lighthearted picture book about the joys and sorrows of being what you’ve always wanted to be – or at least getting a chance to try it out first.

Étienne Bonnin [email protected]

Glénat

9782344026700 / 2018 / 32 pages / 11,00 €

A SELECTION OF FRENCH TITLES GENDER, SEXISM & STEREOTYPES

Children’s Books Essays & Humanities Illustrated Non-Fiction

Young Adult Literature & FictionComic Books & Graphic Novels

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

Nadia Leïla Aïssaoui, Édith Carron

Marie-Ève de Grave, Victoria Dorche

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

A book of resources to help teens better understand one of the great issues of our era.

NO MEANS NO! FIGHTING SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Non c’est non ! Contre le harcèlement sexuel

The issues of sexual harassment and sexual violence are at the center of a heated debate as our society comes to understand the extent to which we lack awareness of other human beings in our relationships. This book lists and explains words and expressions relating to harassment for teenage readers. Here, teenagers will find advice and recommendations for further reading: books and websites to help them not only identify and manage uncomfortable situations, but also move away from stereotypes.

Johanna Brock [email protected]

Actes Sud Junior

9782330125752 / 2019 / 112 pages / 14,00 €

FIND OUT MORE> 2,500 copies sold


A book about learning to accept yourself and other people just the way they are, for readers who’ve had their fill of “perfect little girls”!

CALAMITY JEAN calamity jeanne

Calamity Jean isn’t like other little girls. She hates pink, but climbing trees and playing Bigfoot? That’s her jam! And when she has to get all dolled up, she just pulls on a pair of cowboy boots underneath her pretty dress! But today is her birthday, and for her new friend Lily-Rose, who’s dressed up like a fairy, she’s going to outdo herself. Why, her very own mother isn’t going to believe her eyes!

Elsa Giroux [email protected]

Hélium

9782330124502 / 2019 / 48 pages / 15,90 €




Christian Bruel, Anne Bozellec

Rights soldItalian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

An extraordinary picture book and a landmarkin children’s literature, first published forty years ago and now more contemporary than ever.

THE TRUE STORY OF JULIE, WHO HAD A BOY’S SHADOW

Histoire de Julie qui avait une ombre de garçon

“You are unbearable! You’re always saying mean things, falling down, and getting up to mischief.” Julie’s parents spend so much time reproaching her for being a tom-boy that one morning her shadow turns into the shadow of a boy, who mimics and caricatures her every move. At first she finds her alter-ego amusing, but eventually she starts doubting her own identity. But how do you get rid of a shadow that isn’t your own?

Lucilla Faedda [email protected]

Éditions Thierry Magnier

9782364745018 / 2014 / 54 pages / 16,50 €




Anne Percin, Thomas Gornet

With great humor and sensitivity, these two hilarious tales explore the relationships between girls and boys beyond the stereotypical differences, painting an affectionate portrait of children ages 7-10.

UNDERWEAR DAY / I’M WEARING PANTIES

Le jour du slip / Je porte la culotte

This book can be read front to back or back to front, invi-ting readers to explore new perspectives. Anne Percin’s Underwear Day tells the story of a girl named Corinne who wakes up to find herself transformed into a boy named Corentin! In Thomas Gornet’s I’m Wearing Panties, Corentin has to deal with everyone calling him... Corinne! These sidesplitting bodyswapping stories help children see the world from a different gender at an age when a sense of gender roles is developing rapidly under the influences of adult behavior and the school environment.

Le Rouergue Jeunesse

9782812604966 / 2013 / 64 pages / 6,50 €


4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

Hector Dexet Sylvie Misslin,Amandine Piu

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

“We are all different. Yet whether boy or girl, we are almost all the same inside.” A clever and playful board book about the human body for the youngest readers.

ALL OF US! Nous !

A playful board book about the human body, with cutouts, vivid colors, and clever humor to help children learn more about themselves and others.

Florence Pariente [email protected]

Amaterra

9782368561140 / 2016 / 36 pages / 12,50 €

Rights soldChinese (Simplified), Dutch, English (World), Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian

Rights soldCatalan, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, Italian, Greek, Polish, Spanish

An interactive choose-your-own-adventure book. Help the two princesses find a happier ending than merely meeting Prince Charming!

YOOHOO, PRINCE CHARMING?

Hou ! Hou ! Prince Charmant ?

A humorous picture book about two little princesses ready for adventure. When Princesses Rose and Josephine decide to venture forth from their castle, Rose wants to go one way and Josephine another. Which way will you choose?Readers can decide whether to splash through a rushing river or nap in a meadow; enter a dark cave or stay the course; open a cobwebbed castle door or follow a sweet aroma. There are many paths to take, but only two will lead the princesses to a happy ending. And that is defini-tely NOT meeting Prince Charming!

Florence Pariente [email protected]

Amaterra

9782362663567 / 2016 / 44 pages / 14,90 €




Jean-Michel Billioud, Kaa

COLLECTIVE, Kaa

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

An ode to powerful and extraordinary women throughout history, with flaps to lift!

TEN WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD

10 femmes qui ont changé l’histoire du monde

A non-fiction picture book featuring 40 flaps that tell the stories of 10 different inspiring women who changed the world. Features well-known artists, scientists, politicians, athletes, and much more! Ages 6 and up.

Tatiana Joly [email protected]

Auzou

9782733863893 / 2018 / 20 pages / 19,95 €

Discover the stories, accomplishments, and adventures of 50 brilliant women from throughout history!

PIONEERS Pionnières

This non-fiction book highlights 50 wonderful women who have shaped history all around the world. Featuring figures both famous and forgotten: A great way to bring everyone back into the spotlight! A terrific gift to inspire young readers. Ages 9 and up.

Tatiana Joly [email protected]

Auzou

9782733872055 / 2010 / 204 pages / 19,95 €




Stéphanie Duval, Sandra Laboucarie,

Pascal Lemaître

Mr Tan, Diane Le Feyer

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

A book to help children see past stereotypes by recognizing, respecting, and accepting differences.

EQUAL RIGHTS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS? GOOD IDEA!

Égalité filles/garçons pas bête

Based on questions from actual children, this book explores the differences between genders: What is a boy? What is a girl? What are their roles in life? How is sexual identity constructed? Is gender a social construction or a natural phenomenon?This book will help children get to know themselves better, respect others, and accept every individual’s uniqueness, all while doing away with deeply rooted clichés!With double-page profiles of men and women who have fought for gender equality.

Pauline Armand [email protected]

Bayard Éditions

9782747092036 / 2019 / 72 pages / 14,90 €

FIND OUT MORE> 150,000 copies sold in FranceRights sold

Castilian, Catalan, Korean

FIND OUT MORE> 4,000 copies sold in France

Ready for another amazing adventure with Awesome Adele? Join her in the Land of Zanytales!

AWESOME ADELE IN THE LAND OF ZANYTALES

Mortelle Adèle au pays des contes défaits

Awesome Adele finds herself transported to the Land of Zanytales, a fantabulous world where anyone can make their dreams come true! How will she survive this weird and cutesy world, where princes take it easy while mean princesses prank each other to rack up smiley points and become the heroines of their own Zanytales? It all seems very simple to Adele: take out the competition and write a new kind of Zanytale for girls AND boys alike!


Bayard Éditions

9791027607747 / 2019 / 112 pages / 12,90 €




Rémi Courgeon Isabelle Motrot, Véronique Joffre

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

Just because you’re skinny as a twig doesn’t mean you can’t stand up for yourself!

TWIGGY Brindille

Her name is Pavlina, but everyone calls her Twiggy. Sure, her house is full of men. Big men. Square men. So of course Pavlina sticks out. You’d think the only girl in a family of boys would get spoiled. But nope!Since she has a hard time making herself heard in her all-male family, Brindille decides to drop piano lessons and take up... boxing!


Éditions Milan

9782745960672 / 2012 / 32 pages / 16,95 €

Rights soldChinese, Polish

FIND OUT MORE> 8,000 copies sold in France> Chrétien de Troyes Award for Rémi Courgeon, 2013

Discover outstanding women who made history with their courage, determination, knowledge, or talent.

40 INCREDIBLE WOMEN Femmes, 40 combattantes pour l’égalité

Freedom of speech, the right to an education, the right to vote, contraception and abortion rights, rights for black women, protesting rape and sexual assault, fighting for the rights of LGBTQ women... 40 female figures (Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Pina Bausch, Angela Davis, Oprah Winfrey, and more) from diverse fields. Find out who they are, what they’re like, how they express them-selves, their struggles, their successes, their words, and their landmark achievements.

So Taniuchi [email protected]

Gallimard Jeunesse

9782075100373 / 2018 / 96 pages / 9,90 €




Émilie Gleason Sonia Paoloni, Éloïse Rey

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

With her fun, smart-alecky, pop art and writing style, Émilie Gleason gives us a new take on that age-old story, coming of age.

POLKA’S HUGE ARMS Les gros bras de Polka

Nobody’s stronger than Polka! But when she tries to give some flowers to her best friend, they end up all smashed up. At school, all the other kids make fun of her, and recess ends in a fight. Polka’s had enough! She decides to go off and save some endangered beavers. But can she stop the rising floodwaters, even with the help of her new friends? With her fun, smart-alecky pop art and writing style, Émilie Gleason gives a new take on that age-old story, coming of age, and reminds readers that only by loving ourselves do we bring out the best in us.

Stéphanie Vernet [email protected]

Biscoto

9791092119855 / 2018 / 64 pages / 14,00 €FIND OUT MORE> “This beautifully illustrated feminist tale is a subtle paean to the power of culture, liberation, youthful hope, and sisterly solidarity.”Causette

This beautifully illustrated feminist tale is a subtle paean to the power of culture, liberation, youthful hope, and sisterly solidarity.

SINGING ANNA Anna qui chante

Once upon a time, there was a terrible tyrant who so doted on his daughter Judith that he kept her locked up in a tower, where she grew very, very bored. To keep her company, the king had all the little girls in his king-dom kidnapped. And so begins the story of Judith, a sad princess, and Anna, who teaches her what it means to be free. Singing Anna is a feast for the eyes, part illu-minated manuscript, part modern fable. The bright and lively colors, bold layout, and beautiful production values all enhance sumptuous prose. A wonderful storybook that is an ode to freedom… and song!

Stéphanie Vernet [email protected]

Biscoto

9791092119749 / 2017 / 64 pages / 18,00 €




Magali Le Huche Ilya Green

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

Hector, the Astounding Strongman, sets up his trailer off to one side, far from prying eyes. For he has a secret…

HECTOR, THE ASTOUNDING STRONGMAN

Hector, l’homme extraordinairement fort

Capable of the most incredible feats in the ring, Hector, the strongest of all the circus performers, hides his gentle passion deep in the privacy of his trailer. After his act, he hurries there so he can knit for his beloved. A tale that weaves together poetry, humor, and a lot of love!

Ieva Vaitkeviciute [email protected]

Didier Jeunesse

9782278059669 / 2008 / 48 pages / 12,90 €Rights soldCatalan, Spanish (World)

Rights soldChinese (Simplified), Korean, Italian, Spanish (World)

FIND OUT MORE> 15,000 copies sold in France> Animated film adaptation based on the Latin American edition

Gabriel wants to be a part of the fashion show too, but the girls won’t let him! Boys just aren’t pretty enough!

THE TYRANNY OF PIGTAILS La dictature des petites couettes

Olga, Ana, and Sophie are getting ready for a fashion show. Pretty dresses, pigtails, and spangles are a must. But when Gabriel and the Cat want to be in it too, everyone gets annoyed. But... what if there was a beauty contest to settle the issue? The war is on between the boys and the girls: who will be the prettiest? A clever fable about the dictates of fashion, which affect even the youngest among us.

Ieva Vaitkeviciute [email protected]

Didier Jeunesse

9782278077946 / 2014 / 48 pages / 11,10 €




Clémentine du Pontavice Ludovic Flamant, Jean-Luc Englebert

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

Gender stereotypes addressed with common sense in a deliberately light and poetic tone.

GIRL THING OR BOY THING?

Truc de fille ou de garçon ?

Playing soccer. Crying. Dancing. Driving a truck or flying a plane. Conquering the world, discovering new things. Taking care of the kids, changing diapers, making dinner. 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!

Isabelle Darthy [email protected] Gaudry [email protected] Declercq [email protected]

L’école des loisirs

9782211239349 / 2019 / 48 pages / 6,00 €

Rights soldCatalan, German, Spanish

Rights soldItalian

“Don’t worry, it’s just a phase!”

DOLLS ARE FOR GIRLS Les poupées c’est pour les filles

A young boy get a present from his aunt: a handmade doll. He names her Cindy, and she never leaves his side. His father says it’s just a phase, but at the toy store, he asks for a stroller…

Muriel d’Oultremont [email protected]

Pastel

9782211213561 / 2013 / 74 pages / 10,00 €




Claudine Colozzi,Elsa Oriol

Michaël Escoffier,Laure Monloubou

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

Daisy is going to have to dance without her glasses…

A BALLERINA DOES NOT WEAR GLASSES

Une danseuse ne porte pas de lunettes

Daisy can hardly believe it. Mr. Golovine, has asked her to dance in his ballet in the end-of-year show. And Pauline de Belleville, the head of the famous Tutu & Co. School, will be there.But there’s a hitch: Daisy is going to have to dance without her glasses…

Kaléidoscope

9782877679619 / 2018 / 40 pages / 13,20 €

Rights soldItalian, Korean, Turkish

Rights soldChinese (Simplified), Italian

An essential book promoting curiosity and open-mindedness.

NORMAL PEOPLE Les gens normaux

During recess, Logan told Zita that she was not normal. But what does it mean, to be normal?Zita is determined to find out.

Kaléidoscope

9782877679954 / 2019 / 32 pages / 13,50 €






ALICE DE NUSSY,SANDRINE BONINI

LAETITIA COLOMBANI,CLÉMENCE POLLET

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

A funny, affectionate picture book for siblings of all sorts!

MY SISTER IS A LUNKHEAD Ma sœur est une brute épaisse

Now, me, I’m a big brother. And I’ve got a kid sister. My favorite thing when it’s nice out is sitting in the cool grass in the shade of a tree and reading a book. That is, when my sister’s not around…When all you want is some peace and quiet, it’s not easy being big brother to a little sister as mischievous as she is energetic – that is, when she’s not outright terrifying.

Grasset Jeunesse

9782246860730 / 2018 / 32 pages / 15,00 €

Rights soldDanish, Italian, Spanish (Spain)

FIND OUT MORE> 26,000 copies sold for the original novel, The Braid (Grasset, 2017)

A sensitive treatment of the fate that awaits girls and women in India, especially those born into lower castes.

THE BRAID, OR LALITA’S JOURNEY

La Tresse ou le voyage de Lalita

A beautiful, luminous children’s adaptation of a portion of the international bestseller The Braid. Young Lalita and her mother Smita are born into the lowest, or “Un-touchable” caste: the Dalits. They must travel across India in an astonishing and magnificently illustrated tale of life, rebellion, faith, and hope that introduces readers to such issues as social class, the plight of women, and access to education.

Christian Voges [email protected]

Grasset Jeunesse

9782246816331 / 2018 / 56 pages / 14,90 €





JEAN LEROY, BÉRANGÈRE DELAPORTE

MARIE-SABINE ROGER,ANNE SOL

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

A smart, brave, and clever superheroine! Super Go-Getter, a.k.a. Revenge of the Girls!

SUPER GO-GETTER Super Fonceuse

Goliath, a strapping young ram, deems no task worthy of his great strength. There’s nothing special at all about his sister Maguette, but she does all the chores. One morning, Goliath finally gets a mission worthy of him: Tentacula the Terrible has just landed in their backyard!

L’Élan Vert

9782844554017 / 2016 / 32 pages / 12,20 €

FIND OUT MORE> 11,500 copies sold> Non-Fiction Sorcières Award, 2010

Tired of preconceptions like “Boys don’t dance” and “Girls don’t play soccer”? Open the flaps of this book, and spring from surprise to surprise!

WHAT ARE YOU PLAYING? À quoi tu joues ?

Everyone knows boys don’t dance, jump rope, throw tea parties, and most of all, cry. And girls don’t play soccer, build things, or fly planes, much less rockets. But none of that is true!Hiding under flaps are series of photos from real-life news stories that thumb their nose at such absurd pre-conceptions, disproving them with facts and humour, so they won’t limit young readers’ imaginations. A refreshing must-read, ages 3 and up.

Claire Hartmann [email protected]

Sarbacane

9782377310692 / 2009 / 26 pages / 15,90 €





SOPHIE GOURION,ISABELLE MAROGER

AMÉLIE ANTOINE,ISABELLE MAROGER

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A 2-sided picture book that encourages children to be free to dare and explore.

GIRLS CAN DO IT, TOO! / BOYS CAN DO IT, TOO!

Les filles peuvent le faire aussi / Les garçons peuvent le faire aussi

A terrific picture book about equality and freedom! “Soccer isn’t for girls! Dolls aren’t for boys! Boys don’t cry! Girls don’t like to get dirty !” You’ve probably heard people saying these things on TV, at home, or even school. But they’re all wrong! It doesn’t matter if you’re a boy or a girl: YOU CAN DO ANYTHING!

Gründ

9782324022609 / 2019 / 48 pages / 12,95 €Rights soldCatalan, Chinese (Traditional), Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish (Castilian), Turkish

A 2-sided picture book about sharing moments to remember with Mom and Dad.

THINGS I DO WITH DAD! / THINGS I DO WITH MOM!

Ce que je fais avec Papa / Ce que je fais avec Maman

There are so many things to do with mom and dad! Bake pastries, eat pancakes, play hide-and-seek, paint your room, or even ride a bike! Even though mom and dad have grown-up things to do, you know they always have time for you! A 2-sided picture book with 2 different covers and 2 stories inside: one featuring mom and the other featuring dad.

James Elliott [email protected]

Gründ

9782324025747 / 2020 / 48 pages / 12,95 €





Sandra Nelson, Jules

Sandra Nelson, Rémi Saillard

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

So… think you know everything about princesses? Think again!

A (SUPER) PRINCESS’ GUIDE TO SURVIVAL IN HOSTILE SETTINGS

Le Guide de survie des (super) princesses en milieu hostile

Do you really think Sleeping Beauty slept for a 100 years, or an ordinary red apple fooled Snow White? Our seven courageous and stubborn princesses know what to do in extreme situations and would never let themselves be taken advantage of so easily. They’ve planned for eve-rything, so that they’ll never lose the upper hand! This Survival Guide, filled with anecdotes, surprising revela-tions, and 1001 super-princess secrets, will let you in on the real story at last…

Gautier-Languereau

9782017087038 / 2019 / 80 pages / 14,00 €

Rights soldSpanish (World)

A totally fresh and ironic take on the classic story of searching for a prince with a charmingly causticand uncompromising heroine.

SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME… OR NOT

Un jour mon prince viendra (ou pas)

Once upon a time, a princess kept waiting for her Prince Charming in vain. Her mother told her to be patient and make herself pretty for the big day. But when the day finally came, what a disappointment the prince turned out to be! The princess realized his sole wish was to make her a housewife. How awful! So she decided to take matters into her own hands. She set off to have her own adventures. She caught a dragon, fought an ogre, even won a tournament! Who needs a prince anyway?

Anne Vignol [email protected]

Gautier-Languereau

9782013978989 / 2016 / 40 pages / 12,00 €

Anne Vignol [email protected]




Marion le Hir de Fallois, Solenn Larnicol

Ingrid Chabbert, Lauranne Quentric

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France, 1965: women get the right to work without their husband’s permission.

A DREAM OF FREEDOM Un rêve de liberté

Claire has to move; she’s leaving Paris. She’ll have to change schools, adapt, make new friends. Her mother is a doctor, the first woman to practice medicine in their new city. What a challenge! But all Claire dreams about is being a cheerleader, like her best friend Sylvie.

Kilowatt

9782917045428 / 2017 / 44 pages / 15,80 €

Rights soldKorean

An illustrated chapter book about love between people of the same gender, for ages 7-8.

PAPA’S PARTNER L’amoureux de papa

Amandine is a little girl who lives a well-ordered life. Her parents are divorced but get along well. But one day, her father introduces her to his partner: none other than her teacher, Jean. Amandine has trouble accepting her father’s homosexuality. For a while, her father decides to break things off with Jean so as not to damage his relationship with his daughter. But with help from her mother and her friends, Amandine comes around. “Love is love, wherever you find it.” She and her friends then plot to get Jean and her father back together.

Galia Tapiero [email protected]

Kilowatt

9782917045442 / 2017 / 48 pages / 7,30 €

Galia Tapiero [email protected]




Antonis Papatheodoulou kei lam

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A pirate without a hook?!

LEON OF A THOUSAND QUESTIONS

Léon Millequestions

Everyone knows all pirates are born with a pegleg, an eyepatch, and a hook for a hand. All pirates, except Leon! Instead of a pointy-tipped hook, he has a handsome cur-ved question mark with a rounded end. But why? That’s just the first in a lifetime of adventures and above all, questions that await our little hero.

Langue au Chat

9782806310057 / 2019 / 32 pages / 12,95 €

Rights soldEnglish, Greek, Portuguese (Brazil)

A short text full of humor and a conclusion full of love, beautifully conveyed in Kei Lam’s luminous illustrations

SUPER DADDY! Mon super papa

All children think their dads are the best! It’s only natural. This book full of love and humour features dads from two points of view: through their child’s eyes, and how they actually are in reality.

Paul Bernard [email protected]

Langue au Chat

9782806310743 / 2020 (forthcoming)7 spreads / 9,95 €

Paul Bernard [email protected]




Ludivine Irolla, Myrtille

Emmanuel Werner, Sway

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The first volume of a series about dancing that’s unlike any other!

LITTLE DANCERS: THE EXPLOSIVE DANCE-OFF!

Graines de danseurs - Une battle explosive

Victoiria, Effia, Lou, and Max all share a single passion: dancing! But they’re divided: some prefer ballet, and others hip hop, improvisation, or contemporary dance. But when Amelia, the school supervisor and dance teacher, sees them dancing during a break, she hatches a plan to 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.

Les Livres du Dragon d’Or

9782821211759 / 2020 / 128 pages / 9,95 €

Put your cleats on and join this team for a first volume full of soccer!

GOAL! AN EPIC MATCH Objectif champion - Un match épique

An original series for soccer fans! Join Jade, her brother Thomas, Medhi, and Matéo as their team rises through the rankings! At their new school, Jade and Thomas put together a team for their city’s soccer club. Their goal: to win the local championship, something their city’s never won before!


Les Livres du Dragon d’Or

9782821211766 / 2020 / 128 pages / 9,95 €





Louison Nielman Alice Meteignier

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This new series of gripping novels brings valuable help to troubled teens through its message of hope.

MY FATHER’S MASK Le masque du père

This novel depicts the impact of a father’s violence on his family through the eyes of his young daughter Celeste, who doesn’t quite understand what’s going on. Readers will be swiftly drawn into her life through her thoughts and feelings.

Macha Publishing

9782374370651 / 2020 / 128 pages / 7,90 €

Rights soldChinese (Traditional)

A zany story about differences, tolerance, and accepting others.

MR. BUTTERFLY Mister Papillon

Here come the contestants for the beauty contest! The audience looks on, wide-eyed. The emcee adds enthu-siastic commentary. Among the contestants, one stands out: lovely wings, confident gait... the perfect butterfly! The judges are won over, and name him Mr. Butterfly. But 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?Alice Meteignier delivers a zany tale about differences and tolerance, unfurling a broad palette of illustration techniques to get her message accross.

Hannele Legras [email protected]Émilie Boujon [email protected]

MeMo

9782352893745 / 2018 / 40 pages / 14,00 €

Alexandra Calmès [email protected]




Laurent Cardon Laurent Cardon

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A fun, sarcastic book about gender equality, feminism, and parenting!

TEAMING UP IS TAKING TURNS: A HEN TALE

S’unir c’est se relayer : une histoire de poules

Brooding is essential to keeping eggs warm so they’ll hatch into little chicks someday. But it can be kind of boring, and it’s also a lot of pressure. Do hens ever get to take breaks? And why can’t roosters brood too?

Éditions Père Fouettard

9782371650411 / 2019 / 48 pages / 16,00 €

Rights soldCatalan, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Russian, Spanish (Europe), Turkish

FIND OUT MORE> Feu Follet Award

Who could even imagine all the questions you get in a henhouse?

TEAMING UP IS TOLERANCE: A HEN TALE

S’unir c’est s’accepter : une histoire de poules

Some chickens want to change the color of their feathers. But not everyone is into such newfangled notions! A witty and hilarious read.

Alexandra Kiffer [email protected]

Éditions Père Fouettard

9782371650640 / 2020 / 52 pages / 16,00 €

Alexandra Kiffer [email protected]




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ÉLISABETH BRAMI,ESTELLE BILLON-SPAGNOL

Rights soldChinese (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

A smart and joyful inventory of the rights of girls, already translated into 10 languages!

A DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF GIRLS

La déclaration des droits des filles

Already published in 10 languages, Talents Hauts flagship series challenges stereotypes. A funny, quirkily illustrated, and heartwarming list of 15 articles of faith, to be read aloud, proclaiming that girls, too, have the right to be scruffy and untidy, to do any job they want, and to love whomever they want: girls, boys... or both!

Florence Pariente (Foreign Rights) [email protected] Faron (Publisher & Foreign Rights) [email protected]

Talents Hauts

9782362661068 / 2014 / 36 pages / 12,50 €




Séverine Huguet

A book full of humor about intelligence, creativity, leadership… and naps!

IN CASE OF SIEGE En cas d’attaque

Once upon a time, an army dwelled in a remote forest. The big castle where they lived had never been attacked, so no one really cared about protecting it. Except for one female knight. Tired of not doing anything, she decides to train her troops to get better at relaxing. One day, the castle is besieged, and our heroine leads her lazy army to victory through an absurd battle full of sun chairs and hammocks instead of swords!

Talents Hauts

9782362663567 / 2020 / 36 pages / 15,00 €

Florence Pariente (Foreign Rights) [email protected] Faron (Publisher & Foreign Rights) [email protected]

Dominika Lipniewska Grégoire Kocjan, Lisbeth Renardy

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No two families are alike… and that’s absolutely normal!

WE ARE FAMILY We are family

What makes a family? The combinations are endless, and reality will always surprise us. Families are diverse, and that is wonderful! With a light touch, this book takes us through a gallery of possible scenarios, inviting young readers to describe their own families.

Daniela Bonerba [email protected]

The Children’s Book Factory

32 pages

FIND OUT MORE> Conceived for the 2020 Bologna Children’s Book Fair

A cowboy yarn that gallops past cliché.

LAST OF THE COWBOYS Le dernier cow-boy

Quickly Lucky never gets any rest! But that’s how life is when you’re a lawman in the Wild West.

Daniela Bonerba [email protected]

L’Atelier du poisson soluble

9782358711036 / 2017 / 48 pages / 16,00 €




Nathalie Charles Nathalie Charles

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It’s not easy making yourself heard when you’re in sixth grade, but Salome takes inspiration from women who paved the way before her.

SALOME AND THE WOMEN WHO SPOKE OUT: FINDING YOUR PLACE

Salomé et les femmes de parole - Trouver sa place

Salome has just started sixth grade at a new middle school. She’s a dreamer in love with words (her mother’s a translator); some people call her a nerd. Her biggest rival in class is Capucine, student council leader and gossipmonger. Soon, a challenge comes Salome’s way: a contest to find a new name for the school. To be eligible, Salome needs a teacher’s backing. She’ll have to present her case before her peers and win their vote. But with Capucine in the running too, who’ll side with Salome? Will she ever figure out where she fits in?

Rageot éditeur

9782700273656 / 2019 / 192 pages / 12,90 €

Salome continues to explore the history of groundbreaking women who fought for equality against stereotypes.

SALOME AND THE WOMEN WHO SPOKE OUT: STANDING UP FOR YOURSELF

Salomé et les femmes de parole - Défendre son nom

It’s not easy, giving a presentation on an outspoken wo-man like Rosa Parks, when you’re only a 6th grader! Salome has some terrific ideas for the speech she’ll be giving on Black Power before the whole student body. But will her friends see themselves in her motto: “At Rosa Parks Middle School, everyone has a place!”? Why are some kids more popular than others when all they do is spread lies and rumors? How can we all live in harmony and respect, when harassment is everywhere? Luckily, women who’ve spoken out are here to inspire boys and girls alike!

Sarah Daumerie [email protected]

Rageot éditeur

9782700275353 / 2020 / 224 pages / 12,90 €





Michel Piquemal

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A wickedly feminist tale.

CURIOSA, CHATTIE, AND FLIRTITIA

Curieuse, Bavarde et Coquette

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!

Les Éditions du Ricochet

9782352630678 / 2012 / 36 pages / 14,00 €

Natalie Vock-Verley [email protected]




Claire Duplan

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A fierce and cheerful broadside against contemporary patriarchal machismo, with echoes of the #MeToo movement.

CAMEL JOE Camel Joe

Young illustrator, Constance avenges the countless daily aggressions against women with her comic Camel Joe, the wild adventures of an anti-macho vigilante. It’s a way to let off steam that could make her name, if Constance could only stick up for herself a little and get it published. Good thing she’s got her girlfriends, her boyfriend, and her favorite band, not to mention Camel Joe herself. From how to wear leggings to menstrual blood to raging against douchebags, Claire Duplan fires a fierce broad-side against sexism.

Rue de l’échiquier

9782374251240 / 2018 / 120 pages / 16,50 €FIND OUT MORE> 2,000 copies sold> Nominated for the 2018 Artéminia Prize > Animated series adaptation underway

Sylvain Coissard [email protected]

Marie Moinard, Christelle Pécou

20 women who have helped humankind make great leaps forward in a variety of scientific disciplines.

WOMEN IN SCIENCE Les Découvreuses

5 full graphic biographies: Marie Curie (physics and chemistry), Hedy Lamarr (ITT), Ada Lovelace (compu-ting), Rosalind Franklin (biology), Mae Jamison (space). 15 illustrated introductions: Émilie du Châtelet, Xie Yi, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Emmy Noether, Marthe Gautier, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Grace Alele-Williams, Maryam Mirzakhani, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Sophie Germain, Grace Murray Hopper, Donna Theo Strickland, Irène Joliot-Curie.


21g

9791093111384 / 2019 / 92 pages / 17,00 €

Comic Books & Graphic Novels Essays & Humanities Illustrated Non-Fiction

Young Adult Literature & FictionChildren’s Books


Didier Lévy, Catherine Meurisse

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The story of a teenage girl waiting for love, told in charming slice-of-life episodes… By Catherine Meurisse, a can’t-miss creator of bestselling graphic novels.

ELZA - WHENEVER, CUPID! (NEW EDITION)

ELZA - C’est quand tu veux, Cupidon ! (nouvelle édition)

With her gimlet eye and a gift for lethal comebacks, here comes Elza the merciless! Between her highly expe-rienced girlfriend Molly Molotov, who’s always playing the sexpot, and her faithful, terrified lover Robert-Louis, who really isn’t her type, Elza dreams of falling passionately in love. But no nonsense! Her destiny is to become at once a femme fatale and a free woman. At the very least.

Sarbacane BD

9782377313907 / 2020 / 64 pages / 9,50 €

Rights sold German

FIND OUT MORE> A small-format reprint of a series that sold over 8,000 copies in its original size


Franck Manguin, Cécile Becq

A sensitive portrait of a woman in 1960s Japan.

AMA: BREATH OF A WOMAN

AMA, Le souffle des femmes

Japan, late 1960s. Nagisa, a young woman from Tokyo with polite and modest manners, lands with her belon-gings on Hegura, a small, remote island of fishermen. There, she is adopted by Isoe, the leader of the community of “Ama” women who rule the island. The Ama - strong, harsh, and wild “women of the sea” - dive naked into the depths in search of pearls... Ama is a fascinating explo-ration of the relationship between the female body in its natural nakedness and in a corseted, patriarchal society.


Sarbacane BD

9782377314034 / 2020 / 112 pages / 21,50 €




Caroline Sury

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“After my checkup, I have to order more ink and paper, go shopping, clean the house...”

BABY 2000 Bébé 2000

The diary of a woman who becomes pregnant without the father’s consent, Baby 2000 gives a raw, grotesque and gutsy portrait of delivery and the first months of having an infant. This memoir is the first comic book by under-ground artist Caroline Sury, co-founder of indie publisher Le Dernier Cri. Swinging between euphoria and anxiety, it accurately depicts parenthood with Sury’s chaotic, brist-ling drawing style. Baby 2000 is rooted in everyday life, where the new apartment needs renovations and nurses watch soccer while their patient is in labor.

L’association

9782844142009 / 2006 / 88 pages / 14,20 €Rights sold Swedish

Sarah Lapalu [email protected]

Nine Antico

Nine Antico investigates not only sex, menstrual cups, dildos, and venereal diseases, but also freedom of speech and art, and the conversation of modern women, as naturally and humorously as possible.

EVIL WITCHES Maléfiques

Maléfiques is a collection of strips depicting the everyday conversations of three friends. Antico paints a portrait of the group, chicks free of hang-ups, and shows us the true nature of women, who, in reality, fart, take drugs, speak frankly about their bodies, and have fun. Behind closed doors, the three characters strip topless; discuss Woody Allen, witchcraft, mental burden, and sodomy; compare their dildos and their indifference to yoga.


L’association

9782844147592 / 2019 / 64 pages / 16,00 €




Huber, Zanzim

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Girls just wanna have fun!

SKIN OF A MAN Peau d’homme

Renaissance Italy: the time has come for Bianca, a young woman from a fine family, to be wed. She is introduced to her future husband Giovanni, a young rich merchant. As the wedding day nears, a secret that has been in the family for generations is passed down to Bianca: the skin of a man. When she puts it on, she becomes Lorenzo, enjoying all the attributes of a stunningly beautiful young man. Blending sex and religion, morality and humour, grandeur and frankness, Skin of a Man takes readers on a wild, passionate quest for love as well as a journey of liberation from tradition.

Glénat

9782344010648 / 2020 / 160 pages / 27,00 €

Olivier Galli [email protected]

Chloé Wary

Rights sold 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

Chloé Wary’s bright colors and expressive, energetic style bring the fight for women’s lib to a suburban soccer field.

ROSE SEASON Saison des Roses

The women’s soccer team of Rosigny-sur-Seine performs well, but due to budget restraints, the club’s manager takes them out of the championship, in order to keep the men’s team going. This graphic novel follows the frustrations of team captain Barbara and her fellow team-mates, close as sisters, as they struggle to secure funding and recognition. Drawing on her own experience with a women’s soccer team, Chloé Wary spotlights the injus-tices faced by female players in a male-dominated sport.


Éditions Flblb

9782357611764 / 2019 / 240 pages / 23,00 €




Thomas Mathieu, Juliette Boutant

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Women’s actual accounts of everyday sexism and harassment out in the streets, adapted into comics.

CROCODILES ARE EVERYWHERE

Les crocodiles sont toujours là

After a previous collection in 2014, Thomas Mathieu returns with more women’s voices from the Crocodiles Project, this time with artist Juliette Boutant. The authors again depict stalkers as bright green crocodiles, an aes-thetic choice that adds force and impact to realistic set-tings, inviting readers to see things through women’s eyes and raising awareness about the abnormality of some domineering, predatory male behaviors. An eye-opening book, more essential than ever in our day and age, to help alter perceptions and behaviors and combat sexism in all its forms .

Casterman BD

9782203172272 / 2019 / 186 pages / 19,50 €

Rights sold Korean

Jérôme Baron [email protected]

Aude Mermillod

Rights sold Korean

Artist Aude Mermillod meets novelist Martin Winckler: two voices to break the silence on a still-taboo subject: abortion.

I JUST HAD TO TELL YOU Il fallait que je vous le dise

Although sometimes a choice, abortion remains no less a traumatic event in a woman’s life. And one all the more painful in that they keep it to themselves, unsure how to express the ambivalence of the feelings and representa-tions it inspires. Anxiety, guilt, loneliness, physical suffe-ring, and most importantly, the impossibility of sharing one’s experience. With this book, Aude Mermillod breaks the silence, blendingher testimony as a patient with that of physician Martin Winckler. Their two paths intersect and converse in a book that is powerful, vital, and peaceful.


Casterman BD

9782203153738 / 2019 / 168 pages / 22,00 €




Quentin Zuttion

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Female victims of violence recover and return to their lives after a therapeutic fencing class.

TOUCHÉ! Touchées

Lucie sleeps with a knife in her hand. She lives in fear, ter-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 become the aggressor. Nicole has chosen to retreat from life instead, fading away so she can’t be a target anymore. All three were victims of sexual violence. To get back on track, they pick up swords. A therapeutic fencing class will help them recover, and start to reach out again: a year-long program to save themselves and take back control of their own lives.

Payot

9782228924481 / 2019 / 224 pages / 21,80 €Rights sold German (+ Japanese & Korean options)

FIND OUT MORE> 6,000 copies sold > Media adaptation in negotiation

Marie-Martine Serrano [email protected]

Thomas Azuélos, Simon Rochepeau, Inna Shevchenko

Inna Shevchenko’s unsentimental memoir of her childhood in a country in disrepair.

MY NAME IS INNA: A UKRAINIAN CHILDHOOD, VOL. 1

Prénom : Inna Une enfance ukrainienne, vol. 1

Born in Ukraine in 2008, the Femen movement, is known for its “topless” protests to denounce violence against women’s bodies in abuse, trafficking, and rape. In 2012, Inna was the subject of a criminal investigation by the Ukrainian police. She left her country and obtained poli-tical asylum in France in April 2013. She was 23 years old at the time. This story, written in the first person, recounts the childhood (volume 1) and adolescence (volume 2) of Inna Shevchenko in Ukraine. It tries to answer this ques-tion: why and how did Inna become the world-renowned feminist activist she is today?


Futuropolis

9782754827379 / 2020 / 104 pages / 18,00 €




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Florence Dupré La Tour

Does being a woman mean you have to do what people say? An uncompromising autobiographical critique of family and social conventions.

VIRGIN Pucelle

Florence’s mother loves telling that story about her cousin who had no idea what was going to happen on her wed-ding night. Florence always pretends to guffaw… because she’s 13. What does she know about it?Florence’s parents never tell her anything about sex. As much as it pains her, she accepts her ignorance at first as the price of belonging to the “second sex.” But giving in, getting married, being invisible: that’s not 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.

Émilie Védis [email protected]

Dargaud

9782205076493 / 2020 / 184 pages / 19,99 €

Anton Heully [email protected]

Feroumont

Rights sold Spanish

FIND OUT MORE> 39,000 copies sold in French> One of Dupuis’ bestsellers on the Europecomics digital platform> Bestselling European webtoon on Izneo

As gender and power roles get seriously reversed, all we can do is ask: who’s the boss now?

GISÈLE AND BÉATRICE Gisèle et Béatrice

A victim of sexism and harassment, Beatrice decides to let her boss have a taste of the unfair treatment to which women are subjected. Using a magic plant brought back from Africa, she turns him into a woman. Creator Benoît Feroumont lets loose with his true feelings in this social satire tinged with erotic humor both naughty and caustic, a delightful tale for adults.

Dupuis

9782800159010 / 2013 / 128 pages / 18,00 €




Thomas Mathieu, Anne Charlotte Husson

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“Feminism” is an often misunderstood, misinterpreted, and misused word. Let’s set the record straight.

FEMINISM IN SEVEN QUOTES AND SLOGANS

Le féminisme en 7 slogans et citations

Despite significant progress during the 20th century, the feminist struggle is still an uphill battle. From Olympe de Gouges to Virginie Despentes, via Simone de Beauvoir and Angela Davis, this nonfiction graphic novel traces events and slogans of the feminist movement’s key moments and explains concepts such as gender, male domination, slut-shaming, and intersectionality.

Le Lombard

9782803637409 / 2016 / 96 pages / 10,00 €Rights sold Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Turkish

FIND OUT MORE> 37,000 copies sold in French

Maïlys Gervais [email protected]

Thomas Mathieu

Ever been sexually harassed on the street? At work? At the doctor’s office? This graphic novel exposes just how widespread such abuse really is.

CROCODILES Les Crocodiles

For years, Thomas Mathieu has gathered true stories about sexual harassment and sexist treatment from young women through his website. In this collection, he has adapted them into short comic strips, depicting all male characters as green crocodiles, while women are portrayed normally. This sensitive and thought-provoking book prompts reflection on the countless ways that men and women behave in today’s society.

Le Lombard

9782803634651 / 2014 / 276 pages / 17,95 €Rights sold Korean, Russian

Maïlys Gervais [email protected]




Zidrou, Édith

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The story of Emma G. Wildford, a journey that blends love, mystery, and adventure in 1920s England and Lapland.

EMMA G. WILDFORD Emma G. Wildford

Fourteen months ago, Emma’s fiancé Roald Hodges of the National Geographic Society board the S.S. Kinship bound for Norway, and since then… not a word. She regularly interrogates other club members, in vain. Before leaving, Roald gave Emma a mysterious enve-lope, to be opened only if anything bad happened to him. In denial, she decides to leave everything -life, luxury, and home- behind and go to Lapland in search of him. On the way, she will gradually shed all her certainties… Far more than a search for a missing fiancé, Emma’s quest will become one of genuine self-discovery.

Éditions Soleil (Groupe Delcourt)

9782302063976 / 2017 / 104 pages / 22,95 €

Rights sold Croatian, English (World)


Séverine Aupert [email protected]

JC. Deveney, Nuria Tamarit

Rights sold Spanish (Spain)

A colossal coming-of-age story that addresses difference, love, and freedom through a sensitive feminist lens.

GIANT: THE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO TRAVELED THE WORLD IN SEARCH OF FREEDOM

Géante - Histoire de celle qui parcourut le monde à la recherche de la liberté

Once upon a time, Celeste, an actual giantess, lived in the heart of a mountain. She was the youngest of a family of six brothers who had taken her in as an orphan. And when it came time for each of them to leave the family nest in turn, Celeste, too, wanted to stride forth in search of new horizons. Out in the world, she discovers her differences are met with hostility. She witnesses the injustices of war and religion, but she also finds love. Will her journey finally bring her the freedom to be herself?

Séverine Aupert [email protected]

Éditions Delcourt (Groupe Delcourt)

9782413000167 / 2020 / 200 pages / 27,95 €




Frédéric Maupomé, Stéphane Sénégas

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Astonishing nature adventures for young readers!

ANUKI (SERIES) Anuki (Série)

Anuki is a young Native American boy who bravely sets out on adventures and never gives up, even in the face of danger. In each volume, the hero learns something important about life: solidarity, sharing, tolerance, and respect... With his stylish pencils, Stéphane creates rea-listic natural settings, thrilling action sequences, and cartoonish humor scenes. Renowned French children’s publisher L’école des Loi-sirs is co-publishing the first volume in softcover.

Les Éditions de la Gouttière

Since 2011 / 40 pages / 10,70 €

Rights sold Arabic (United Arab Emirates), Chinese (Simplified), Spanish (South America)

FIND OUT MORE> 9 volumes in the series> 68,000 copies sold> On the French Ministry of Education’s recommended reading list> Animated series adaptation underway

Dominique Zay, Greg Blondin, Dawid

FIND OUT MORE> 5 titles in the series> 13,000 copies sold

Are you a teen in need of help? Never fear! This young, modern girl is on the case!

PHILIPPINA LOMAR’S THRILLING CASES (SERIES)

Les Enquêtes « Polar » de Philippine Lomar (série)

Philippina Lomar is a young detective who’s never short on words. When someone needs her help, she rushes headlong towards trouble, activates her network, and does not hesitate to put herself in danger. She can always count on her wit, her sense of humour, and her two unu-sual friends, Mok and Gege, who help her when she finds a good lead or trouble comes her way... Powerful themes, such as extortion, identity-building, and domestic violence will speak to tweens and teenagers.

Sophie Froger [email protected] Rocca [email protected]

Sophie Froger [email protected] Rocca [email protected]

Les Éditions de la Gouttière

Since 2016 / 48 pages / 12,70 €




Anne Montel, Loïc Clément, based on the novel

by Marie-Aude Murail

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An endearing character and an homage to Beatrix Potter. A touch of Jane Austen with irreverent reflections on high society and the social norms of the era.

MISS CHARITY Miss Charity

Charity is lively and very curious. But in late 19th-century polite English society, proper little girls aren’t supposed to be seen or heard. Since her parents pay her no mind, Charity embarks on a series of adventures to avoid dying of boredom: raising mice, organizing snail races, studying mushrooms, learning Shakespeare by heart... Then she discovers watercolor, and starts painting the animals and landscapes she sees. She goes on to become a natura-list and an illustrator of children’s books. A lovely story of emancipation told through Anne Montel’s magnificent and moving artwork.

Rue de Sèvres

9782369816843 / 2020 / 128 pages / 16,00 €FIND OUT MORE> The eagerly awaited adaptation of Marie-Aude Murail’s best-selling novel, with more than 30,000 copies sold in France

Dorothée Werner, Soledad Bravi

Rights sold Italian, Korean, Spanish (World)


A study that goes back to the roots of inequality between men and women, revealing their absurdity in hopes of providing the inspiration for a fresh start from new foundations.

WHY AREN’T MEN AND WOMEN EQUAL YET?

Pourquoi y a-t-il des inégalités entre les hommes et les femmes ?

To understand today’s inequalities between men and women, Soledad Bravi went back to when humans first appeared. Armed with her findings, she hopes to pave the way for a fresh start from fairer, healthier foundations. Perhaps society could update rights to be more available to both sexes. This is a chronology of the evolution of women’s rights, starting from the beginnings of hu-mankind to our own times.

Rue de Sèvres

9782369816102 / 2018 / 96 pages / 10,50 €






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Charlotte Bousquet

A sensitive graphic novel on gender reassignment.

BARRIERS Charlotte Bousquet

“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 fate. I tried my best to play it cool. But inside, the thought of that evening freaked me out.”

Gulf Stream Éditeur

9782354885380 / 2018 / 72 pages / 15,00 €





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Lucilla Faedda [email protected] Brock [email protected]

Stéphane Servant

“This is the story of teenagers who have been labeled Felines: They fight against oppression in this fantasy that gets at some hard truths about feminism, discrimination, and intolerance.” ÉCRAN TOTAL

FELINES Félines

Like a lot of teenage girls, Louise suffers from an unex-plained genetic mutation. Overnight, hair grew all over her body, her senses were sharpened, her strength and agility increased, and her emotional sensitivity heightened. She became a “Feline”. The government response was setting up stigmatising and oppressive emergency measures. Meanwhile, a rising extremist political party, the League of Light, promoted violence against Felines. Angered by the way they are treated, some Felines decide to form a resistance, and Louise becomes the face of the revolution.

Le Rouergue Jeunesse

9782812618291 / 2019 / 464 pages / 15,80 €

Rights sold Russian

FIND OUT MORE> 10,000 copies sold> Thriller Series Award, 2020

Antoine Dole

FIND OUT MORE> “This book blazes by like a meteor in the night sky, dazzling with intelligence and sensitivity. A celebration of life and freedom.” Michel Abescat, Télérama

A powerful, shrewd, and moving take on trans identity.

METEOR Météore

The gripping monologue of a young transgender teen-ager who defies society’s norms, challenging notions of masculinity and femininity as she undergoes a compelling transformation. Born a boy, Sara has known she was a girl since early childhood: before she could understand it, even put it into words. She’s grown up trapped by her body, by the rules of masculinity, unable to so much as look at herself in the mirror. Is she a mistake? An anomaly? Something has to change, her body needs realignment. When she turns sixteen, Sara begins her transition to become her true self, so she can feel alive.

Actes Sud Junior

9782330130367 / 2020 / 80 pages / 9,80 €

Young Adult Essays & Humanities Illustrated Non-Fiction

Comic Books & Graphic Novels Literature & FictionChildren’s Books


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Éric Pessan

A novel, rooted in current events like the #MeToo movement, ranging from France across the Atlantic to New York.

STANDING TALL AT NIGHT Tenir debout dans la nuit

New York: now that’s somewhere Lalie has never been! She’s never even dared dream of going. It’s too beautiful, too far away, too expensive. So when Piotr offers to take her along, she’ll do anything to seize the opportunity. Anything? Not quite... Some things you just can’t stoop to. Some prices are too high to pay. So Lalie finds herself on the street, faced with dirty looks and the dangers of the night. There’s only one thing is on her mind: stay awake. Hold out. Stand Tall.

L’école des loisirs

9782211307666 / 2020 / 160 pages / 13,20 €

Camille Emmanuelle

A story of friendship, pleasure, desire, anger transformed into strength and re-appropriation of one’s body.

THE TASTE FOR KISSES Le goût du baiser

A few days before the end of the summer break, 16-year old Aurore has a bike accident. Nothing serious, on the surface. But when she banged her head, she lost her sense of smell and taste. How can you begin to explore your sexuality when you can’t smell anything, not even yourself? Aurore feels vulnerable and angry. Until she starts boxing. Punching, sweating – that she can do. From one training session to the next, she discovers her body, powerful and alive. She also meets Valentin, a boy with whom to pursue this freeing and passionate exploration.

Éditions Thierry Magnier

9791035202941 / 2019 / 224 pages / 14,90 €





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Aurélie Lapautre [email protected] Aurélie Lapautre [email protected]

Natacha Henry

The daring life of Rosa Bonheur, one of the most famous female artists of the 19th century and a trailblazer for generations of women.

ROSA THE BOLD Rosa Bonheur, l’audacieuse

In 19th-century France, women were not free to choose their own futures. Yet Rosa Bonheur never married. She earned her own money as a painter, wore trousers, smoked, went hunting, and lived with another woman in a castle. She was also one of the very few women who lived to see herself become a household name, her work widely renowned. Natacha Henry tells the story of a 14-year-old Rosa, determined to become a painter of animals, who with the help of her father and a friend will defy social norms to achieve her destiny.

Albin Michel Jeunesse

9782226440716 / 2020 / 336 pages / 15,00 €FIND OUT MORE> Rosa Bonheur is Natacha Henry’s 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

Carole Trébor

FIND OUT MORE> 9,000 copies sold in France since its release in September 2019

Katherine Johnson, the woman who made it possible for men to go to the Moon.

HOW MANY STEPS TO THE MOON

Combien de pas jusqu’à la lune

Katherine Johnson was born in West Virginia in 1918, the youngest of four siblings. Thanks to her exceptional abilities, she graduates from college at eighteen, joins NACA in 1953, and then NASA. Despite surroundings rife with segregation and misogyny, she proves her worth through the precision of her equations. In 1969, astronaut John Glenn entrusts her with calculating the trajectory of Apollo 11: the Moonshot. Working in the shadow of men, Katherine also strives to promote the rights of women and African Americans.

Albin Michel Jeunesse

9782226443427 / 2019 / 448 pages / 15,90 €




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Fabiana Angelini [email protected] Sophie Baro [email protected]

Philippe Nessmann

The true story of a brave and inspiring superwoman!

GOLDEN GIRL Une fille en or

In 1928, Betty Robinson of Illinois became the first woman to win a gold medal in the 100-meter dash. But the moment that changed her life came long before that. One day, she was running to catch her train when the coach of her high school sports team happened to spot her from inside. Impressed by her speed, he immediately realized her extraordinary potential. But there was just one problem — athletics was a boys-only club. For Betty, a long struggle against social mores and her own self begins as she seeks to make her dreams of becoming an Olympic champion come true.

Flammarion Jeunesse


Jean-Michel Billioud, Sophie Nanteuil,

Terkel Risbjerg, Zelda Zonk

Rights sold 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

A teen-focused book about sexual orientation - a key resource for young people!

WHO AM I? WHAT AM I?

Je suis qui ? Je suis quoi ?

A book for young people who have reached the age where they want to address deeply personal concerns about growing up and going through puberty, but live in a changing society in which certain attitudes nevertheless prove resistant to change. An important book that tackles a crucial subject, fills a vital gap in the contemporary publishing scene, and seeks to provide valuable support to teens. This project that brings together a group of politically engaged authors and illustrators, all working in collaboration.

Casterman Jeunesse

9782203195806 / 2019 / 80 pages / 13,95 €




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Sarah Daumerie [email protected] Sarah Daumerie [email protected]

Illana Cantin

When one girl gets unfairly kicked out of high school, the others band together and rebel.

ROSE’S RAGE Rose rage

A young girl who also happens to be a reporter for the school newspaper is outraged by the fact that another girl from her school was expelled after a classmate sexually abused her. The young reporter is driven to investigate, and after finding that a terrible miscarriage of justice has taken place, she decides to occupy the building with a bunch of other girls and start a feminist revolution in her own life.An accessible read, full of action instead of fancy speeches…

Hachette Romans


People are always labeling themselves. But for Priam, those labels are way too limiting!

GEORGES, THE WORLD, AND ME

Georges, le monde et moi

I used to think of myself as the average guy: middling grades, a loving family, a small group of friends. I used to be the stereotypical geek who ends up with the cute girl at the end of the movie. In short, my life was boring. Then Georges showed up, with his straight talk and his crappy jokes, and everything changed. He sent my world spin-ning. Obviously, I wasn’t going to wind up with the cute girl.

Hachette Romans

9782016269527 / 2018 / 320 pages / 15,90 €

Illana Cantin




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Bruno Courtet [email protected] Bruno Courtet [email protected]

Cécile Chartre

An uproarious book about shattering stereotypes!

HYPHENATED Traits d’union

A wedding: what better occasion to express your joy, friendship, and love? But Thibault’s friends and family just aren’t feeling it. First of all, why would a boy who just graduated high school get married? How will his relatives react to his sudden and mysterious decision? Each, in turn, talks about how they see Thibault. But, in the end, do they really know him at all? It’s going to be a very strange wedding!

Le Muscadier

9791090685628 / 2016 / 72 pages / 8,50 €

A novel about love, sexual identity, and what other people think of you.

I CAN HEAR THEM COMING FOR US

Je les entends nous suivre

When Leo meets Leonore at his boxing class, it’s love at first sight. The day he turns 15, he makes up his mind to kiss her. Then a boy named Robin shows up at his party. Fine features, golden eyes... Bewitching Robin. Leo falls head over heels for him. But why, when an hour earlier, he only had eyes for Leonore? How can you get a boy’s attention when you’re afraid of what his family and friends think of you? How do accept your own powerful feelings? Then one day, Robin and Leo are victims of a homophobic assault...

Le Muscadier

9791096935130 / 2018 / 96 pages / 9,50 €

Florence Cadier




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James Elliott [email protected] Natalie Vock-Verley [email protected]

Julie Guiol

Women! Men! The same struggle!

FEMINISTS: WHO ARE THEY?

Qui sont les féministes ?

Feminism has been around for hundreds of years. As a struggle, it has been led mainly by women, but it concerns all of society. Too many stereotypes are still too wides-pread. They influence our idea of what it means to be a woman. The right to vote, to drive, to education, to control over one’s own body... This book surveys the history of feminism and the battles it has fought in various eras and nations, painting a portrait of the female condition in public and private spheres, and calling on readers to join the cause.

Les Éditions du Ricochet

9782352632412 / 2018 / 128 pages / 12,00 €Rights sold Chinese (Simplified)

Six stories of gutsy, quirky princesses by six major YA writers!

REVENGE OF THE PRINCESSES

La revanche des princesses

Not all princesses are sleeping beauties, delicate daydreamers, or well-behaved girls dreaming of romance! Tired of waiting for their Prince Charming, our princesses go on adventures on their own, showing the world that a princess can do whatever she puts her mind to! Mischievous, brave, and rebellious, whether onstage or deep in the woods, these princesses will let nothing stand in the way of their revenge! A richly illustrated collection of outstanding short stories, by Clémentine Beauvais, Sandrine Beau, Alice Brière- Haquet, Charlotte Bousquet, Anne-Fleur Multon, and Carole Trébor.

Poulpe Fiction

9782377420520 / 2019 / 198 pages / 14,95 €

COLLECTIVE,KIM CONSIGNY

Rights sold Castilian




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Marie Dessaix [email protected] Marie Dessaix [email protected]

Patrick Bard

A resolutely modern novel about addiction and recovery.

P.O.V. - POINT OF VIEW P.O.V. - Point of View

One morning, 16-year-old Lucas’ computer and smart-phone crash at the same time. How can he explain to his parents that it’s because of all the viruses his devices picked up from porn sites? How can he admit, even to himself, that his addiction to cybersex is at the root of his dropping out of school or becoming overweight? That his addition is an illness? Lucas comes close to disappearing entirely before his long journey to recovery begins.

Syros

9782748525212 / 2018 / 208 pages / 15,95 €

Rights sold English (World)

This novel explores relationships and love, being with the wrong person, being in and out of love, and choosing to be in a relationship... or not.

MEMOIRS OF A UNICORN Autobiographie d’une licorne

Carmen is attracted to both boys and girls. She feels a bit like a unicorn... but unicorns aren’t supposed to exist! She went out with two boys when she was younger (and honestly, it was good, but it never lasted). Now she’s sixteen and would like to date a girl. Problem is, nobody in her high school has come out as gay. The adults in her family have their own problems and are of no help at all. So Carmen decides to take things into her own hands. Never say that bisexuals are indecisive!

Syros


Maïté Bernard




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Sarah Daumerie [email protected] Anne-Sophie Millet [email protected]

Marion Brunet

A bank robber takes a teenager on the run with her across the untamed West. A wild and sensitive western.

HER NAME WAS AB STENSON

Sans foi ni loi

When an outlaw comes to his house and kidnaps him, Garrett is terrified. But the willful, wild Ab Stenson, will open the doors to a brighter future for him, far from his violent father. Fascinated by his captor, Garett discovers her greatest secrets, the ones she only tells her closest friends. In her wake, he will encounter love and friendship where he least expected them. And at the end of the road, Ab will offer him the most beautiful gift of all: freedom.

Pocket Jeunesse

9782266294195 / 2019 / 221 pages / 16,90 €

Rights sold Spanish (Planeta)

FIND OUT MORE> Pépite d’or Award, Salon de Montreuil, 2019 > English synopsis available

An intimate story, at times harsh, at times poetic, that denounces homophobia and speaks movingly to teen readers.

BRUISES Les maux bleus

For three years now, Armelle has known she likes girls. A lonely bookworm, she confides her fears and hopes to her blue notebook. There she tells of Inès, a new student she finds attractive. When her friend violent-ly rejects her advances, Armelle becomes the target of her classmates’ scorn and insults. Then, when her parents discover her secret, they throw her out. She’s only sixteen the night she sees the door to the only home she’s ever known slam shut in her face. Alone in the streets with her notebook, she must learn to survive… But is she truly alone?

Gulf Stream Éditeur

9782367406046 / 2018 / 200 pages / 15,00 €

Christine Feret-Fleury




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Fabien Meffre [email protected] Fabien Meffre [email protected]

Lola Lafon

With her retelling of the Patty Hearst affair,Lola Lafon delivers a politically radical novel that explores how society views women who set out in search of freedom, and get it.

MERCY, MARY, PATTY Mercy, Mary, Patty

February 1974: Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of the famous American publishing magnate, is kidnapped by a revolutionary group whose ranks she soon joins. Three women, each of a different generation, find them-selves defined by this pivotal event, their lives hijacked as they return, time and again, to grapple with its lasting consequences.

Actes Sud

9782330081782 / 2017 / 240 pages / 19,80 €

In her literary debut, Fouqué turns an unflinching gaze on a generation robbed of its dreams, drawing readers into the world of adolescence through effortless stream-of-consciousness narration.

77 - SEINE ET MARNE 77

One morning, a teenager decides to skip school. Instead of getting on the bus, he spends the day in the bus shelter. Watching cars go by. Letting his gaze drift over scenes of the county where he lives, Département 77. And drowning in memories... of Big Kevin. Of Enzo the Betrayer. And of a girl named November.

Actes Sud

9782330125455 / 2019 / 256 pages / 19,00 €Marin Fouqué

Literature & Fiction Essays & Humanities Illustrated Non-Fiction

Comic Books & Graphic Novels Young AdultChildren’s Books


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Fabien Meffre [email protected] Fabien Meffre [email protected]

Claire Raphaël

It’s not every day a woman gets shot down in the street. Who murdered that woman protesting violence against women?

ACTIVISTAS Les Militantes

Béatrice Chabaud found the strength to leave her wife-beating husband and turn her life around. Just enough, that is, to piss off people who think victims should stay victims. Her murder is a clear-cut case for the police, but still, it’s going to take some time, tact, and attention to detail. When misunderstandings run rampant, details take on an unmanageable importance, and suspects who’ve honed their lies for years are suddenly voluntee-ring too much info, a single detail can sometimes be the key to an entire investigation.

Rouergue

9782812619748 / 2020 / 224 pages / 18,00 €

Jeanne and Marie are very much in love, but Jeanne can’t conceive of conceiving any way but the traditional way. So she’s hatched quite an outrageous scheme…

CONCEPTION AND OTHER MISDEMEANORS

Délit de gosses

Jeanne and Marie have been living together for three years. They met in Barcelona and were instantly smit-ten, Jeanne having just broken off her engagement with her childhood sweetheart François-Henri. Now, Jeanne dreams of having a child, but the only way she can conceive of conceiving is... well, the traditional way. When her younger brother announces that he’s getting married, Jeanne hatches an outrageous scheme to seduce François-Henri and have sex with him one more time... y’know, for the baby!

Rouergue

9782812617256 / 2019 / 224 pages / 19,80 €

Isabel Ascencio




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Marie-Pacifique Zeltner [email protected] Marie-Pacifique Zeltner [email protected]

Wendy Delorme

A novel that explores gender and paints a portrait of today’s society through a chorus of multiple narrators

THE BODY IS A MIRAGE Le corps est une chimère

Being a man is cramping Philippe’s style. Marion has three kids together with... Élise! Camille wants to change the world, Ashanta doesn’t believe anyone can, and Isabelle is so in love she could die. Maya is a sex worker; Jo, a cop, doesn’t much appreciate that. Despite their differences, these seven characters discover how they can help each other as their lives intersect and intertwine. Modern love, desire, and relationships are diagnosed in this novel of unsettling truths about stereotypes, passions, sexualities, parenthood, and couplehood.

Au Diable Vauvert

9791030702163 / 2018 / 280 pages / 18,00 €Rights sold Italian

A realistic and poetic female voice to denounce violence against women’s bodies and speak about love.

DEAD-END VOICES Voix sans issue

In this novel, mothers are monstrous (unspeaking, com-plicit, insane), and fathers too (incestuous, absent). Their children, like Mary and Frank, grow up, get away as soon as they’ can, and scrape by in shattered lives. Theirs are the dead-end voices, from ordinary people crushed by life, but exalted by their courage to live and their care for others.When Mary and Frank meet, something gives; suddenly, there’s a promise of somewhere else to go. Summoning Sartre, Sylvia Plath, and Emily Dickinson, Marlène Tissot explores the nature of resilience with a realist dose of human frailty and unshakeable bad luck.

Au Diable Vauvert

9791030703474 / 2020 / 272 pages / 18,00 €

Marlène Tissot




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Chritinie Bonnard-Legrand [email protected] Élisabeth Stempak [email protected]

Emmanuelle Pirotte

Lovers, destined for tragedy, united by passion, sensuality, and literature.

COUNTLESS SUNS D’Innombrables Soleils

Badly wounded in a street fight and left for dead, English poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe finds safe haven with his friend and former lover, Walter, who welcomes him into his home in the heart of Dorset. Consumed by passion, Marlowe and Walter’s wife Jane, two unique and fiery individuals, begin an affair. Souls and bodies alike join in artistic and carnal consummation. Countless Suns is both the story of two people with tragic fates and a stirring tribute to literature. Emmanuelle Pirotte’s fourth novel once again showcases her outstanding and unique talent.

Le Cherche Midi

9782749162263 / 2019 / 240 pages / 18,00 €FIND OUT MORE> Emmanuelle Pirotte’s first book Today We Live, has been translated into 15 languages

Boy and/or girl? It’s all up to Dominique!

DOMINIQUE Dominique

Dominique is the story of a baby born in 2002. Their mo-ther, France, is the sole descendant of a line of women who all had children at a very young age. A youthful, somewhat aimless idealist, France wants to keep the baby but refuses to impose upon them the gender biology has assigned. And so she does her utmost to afford Dominique the greatest latitude in choosing their sexual identity, the idea being to let their personality develop outside social pressures. The book comes to a climax in the year 2014, at a pivotal moment in twelve-year-old Dominique’s life.

Buchet-Chastel

9782283028469 / 2015 / 272 pages / 15,00 €

Cookie Allez




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Céline Telliez [email protected] Céline Telliez [email protected]

Perrine Le Querrec

A brutal and intimate account of domestic violence.

SLUTTY RED LIPS Rouge Pute

Over the course of several weeks, female victims of domestic violence confided their stories to author Perrine Le Querrec, to break the silence and speak the unspeakable. The result is a raw, searing book, faithful to these women’s trauma, told in language that power-fully conveys their bruised bodies, the humiliation and contempt they suffered, the shame they feel. This col-lection of short, hard-hitting prose poems is a genuine awakening, a vessel that honors many voices joined in a single horrific story of abuse.

La Contre Allée

9782376650560 / 2020 / 96 pages / 15,00 €FIND OUT MORE> “On the eve of quarantine,Perrine Le Querrec has put out a bookthat is important, tough, and informedby her encounters with female victimsof domestic violence”, Libération

A tribute to the emancipation of female desire.

WITH BARE HANDS À mains nues

In her latest novel, Amandine Dhée explores the female condition 2.0 from the perspective of body empowerment and sexuality. She recounts the emotional emancipa-tion of a young woman in the face of society’s dictates about her desires. Moving fluidly between memories and present-day soul-searching, Dhée portrays the journey from the girl she once was to the liberated individual she aspires to be, from her first kiss to motherhood. A powerful tribute to a new generation of feminists.

La Contre Allée

9782376650553 / 2020 / 144 pages / 16,00 €Amandine Dhée

FIND OUT MORE> Her previous book, Rough Draft Woman, sold almost 20,000 copies> 6,000 copies sold since January> Paperback rights currently being negotiated> “As much a diary as a feministmanifesto that speaks to the experiences of all women”, Le Nouveau Magazine Littéraire




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Of course he’s never hit me. He’d never hit me. He’d never do that.

TOO MUCH LOVE À trop aimer

Falling in love with Tristan had been so easy. He was bril-liant, funny, and attentive. He liked music, and the songs she wrote. Tristan wasn’t like any man she’d ever met. He was an artist, an extraordinary catch. But soon his mood swings became more frequent, and the violence got worse. How far would she go for love? And could she really even call it love any more?

Denoël


The story of a woman who has been cheated on.

RIGHT AFTER LOVE Juste après l’amour

All it took was a phone call. She had been happy. Their love had been the most important thing in the world to her. Until the day she discovered that her husband was leading two lives.A writer and war reporter, she finds herself drowning in a very different kind of pain, the pain of betrayal. Devastated by this unbearable lie, she loses all sense of self, almost going insane. Now it is her turn to lie. She observes the traitor without saying a word. She lives with him, puts up with his looks, the weight and warmth of his body. Until she gets her revenge.

Denoël

9782207160169 / 2020 / 304 pages / 19,00 €

Sarah Marty




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Carole Saudejaud [email protected] Carole Saudejaud [email protected]

Maria Pourchet

“A powerful call to arms for women to support each other against patriarchal values, instead of tearing each other apart with the violence of their words.”

NOT LIKE ALL THE OTHER WOMEN

Toutes les femmes sauf une

When Maria Pourchet becomes a mother for the first time, giving birth to a baby girl alone in a hospital, it gives her a moment to reflect on the violence inflicted on women. Neither only physical, nor only perpetrated by the patriarchy, this violence is also present in the language women employ against one another. In a poignant letter to her daughter, she her hopes that things will be different for her, so that her life will not be like that of all other women (hence the title).

Pauvert

9782213699134 / 2018 / 144 pages / 15,00 €

FIND OUT MORE> SGDL Révélation Award, 2018

An uptight Parisian woman learns about life and love by freeing herself from all societal expectations placed on women and embarking on an unexpected road trip across Europe with a female truckdriver.

RIGHT TYPE Bon genre

Claude is a Parisian woman who “has it all”: A good job, a loving family, a chic apartment, and a fashionable wardrobe. Despite all this, however, she feels bored and empty inside. This feeling is the catalyst for an innocent flirtation on a café terrace that will change the course of her life. This seemingly inconsequential event will drive her to sexually experiment with many other men, separate from her husband, and set off on a road trip across Europe with a female truckdriver named Ricky, who will teach her the real meaning of love.

Fayard

9782213709826 / 2019 / 256 pages / 18,00 €

Inès Benaroya




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Christiaan van Raaijen [email protected] Éva Brédin-Wachter [email protected]

Isabelle Sorente

The story of an inquiry into witch hunts and the scars they left.

THE WITCH COMPLEX Le complexe de la sorcière

One night, author Isabelle Sorente dreams of a witch with a shaved head. When Sorente tries to find out who she is, she soon finds herself being haunted by all the women who’ve ever been chased, tortured, or killed just because people believed they’d made a pact with the devil. The more the author learns about witches, the more the figure of the witch seems to be speaking to a forgotten part of herself, urging her to act. Did witch hunts leave a secret scar on the memories of all women? An intimate inquiry into who we are as women, and how our witch complex can also save us.

JC Lattès

9782709666268 / 2020 / 300 pages / 20,00 €

An essential readto help us better understand the workings of post-traumatic memory, and the possibility of psychically rebuilding the self afterwards.

THE LITTLE GIRL ON THE ICEBERG

La petite fille sur la banquise

One day, on her way home from school, 9-year-old Adélaïde falls prey to a pedophile. She and her parents report the crime to the police. Years pass. Her family tries to forget. But for Adélaïde, life will never be the same. Throughout her youth she suffers from depression, undergoing every kind of therapy until she finally mets an extraordinary woman who specializes in post-traumatic memory. 23 years after the incident, the police call. The case has been reopened and a man arrested. In spring 2016, at the Palais de Justice, Adélaïde confronts the man who destroyed her life.

Grasset

9782246815891 / 2018 / 256 pages / 18,50 €

Adélaïde Bon

Rights sold Castilian (Anagrama), Czech (No Limit), English (UK: MacLehose Press, USA: Europa Editions), German (Hanser Berlin), Greek (Stereoma), Italian (Edizioni E/O)




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Judith Rosenzweig [email protected] Marie Prudhomme [email protected]

Martine Delomme

The shattering story of a lawyer, tormented by her past, who makes a fresh new start.

CHOOSING WHAT THEY SEE

Le choix des apparences

Camille is a brilliant, formidable Toulouse lawyer who specializes in familial cases. One day, a tragic event at the office rattles her convictions. Shaken, she seeks refuge in the village where she grew up. On a whim, she starts working as an assistant in a local cookie factory. So what if she’s overqualified? It’ll be a healthy change of pace for her. To turn a new leaf, Camille will change her life, meet new people... and confront the ghosts that have haunted her for years.

Presses de la Cité

9782258162136 / 2020 / 360 pages / 20,00 €

Bitter, intense, and in the end, luminous, the story of a human being unlucky enough to be born a woman in a society and an era dominated by men.

GIRL Fille

Laurence Barraqué was born in 1959 into a middle-class family in Normandy. Very early on, her parents made it clear to her that girls are inferior to boys. This message was further confirmed at school, in dance class, where-ver language imposed the male gender as dominant. In this novel, Camille Laurens depicts the life of a woman as she faces the changes in French society over the last 40 years: major issues related to women’s education, the persistence of male domination, and the passing on of feminist values to younger generations.

Gallimard

9782072734007 / 2020 / 240 pages / 19,50 €

Camille Laurens




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Maria Vlachou [email protected] Anne-Sophie Millet [email protected]

Louise Mey

“Any sexual assault committed with violence, by surprise, or under threat or coercion constitutes sexual agression. Any act of sexual penetration of any kind committed against another person with violence, by surprise, or under threat or coercion constitutes rape”. Articles 222-22 and 222-23 of the Penal Code

THE UNSEEN HORDES Les hordes invisibles

Alex is a cop and a single mom. She works for the Sex Crimes and Offenders Squad, partnered with Mar-co, also secretly her partner in life. Their daily routine? Harassment, rape, domestic violence, indecent assault... and cases that finally come to trial two, three, or five years later and result in dismissals most of the time. Sometimes you have to fight to keep on fighting, though. Everyone’s got their own way to keep themselves going. For Alex, it’s beer, her daughter, the statistics that she keep repeating like a mantra. For Marco, it’s Alex, even if he still won’t admit they’re in a relationship.

Fleuve éditions

9782265117976 / 2018 / 443 pages / 19,90 €

Rights sold German (Suhrkamp)

FIND OUT MORE> Another novel available from Louise Mey on the same theme, with the same characters: Les ravagé(e)s [The Ravaged]

A hard-hitting manifesto about the modern situation: structures of domination between men and women, and the importance of female solidarity in overcoming them.

MY DEAREST SISTERS Mes bien chères sœurs

In France, the fourth feminist wave has begun, and the participants aren’t just activists anymore, but ordinary women. In this short, incisive text, Chloé Delaume tackles the questions of feminism’s renewal and the extinction of the patriarchy now underway. What has happened since the #MeToo movement? Where to next? This is a history of women and feminism, but also a memoir of trauma. As a child, the author’s father murdered her mother in front of her. The experience lends Delaume a certain authority.

Éditions du Seuil

9782021347111 / 2019 / 132 pages / 13,50 €

Chloé Delaume

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Colette Olive [email protected] Azzopardi [email protected]

Colette Olive [email protected] Azzopardi [email protected]

Anne Serre

“I was seven years old the first time I saw my father dressed as a woman.”

LITTLE TABLE, SET YOURSELF!

Petite table, sois mise !

In a series of erotic tableaux where the joy and serious-ness of the situation struggle for the upper hand, Anne Serre gives us a game of excess and bad behavior more apt to enchant than unsettle. Early on, the “table with the gleaming disc” acts as both an erotic object and a means of divination, charged with messages that our heroine, once grown up, will be driven to decode. This mysterious and bewitching novel has the charm and deep resonance of a fairy tale.

Verdier

9782864326885 / 2012 / 64 pages / 6,80 €Rights sold English (USA: New Directions), Spanish (Anagrama)

FIND OUT MORE> Shortlisted for the Prix Femina 2012

“Just as my gaze settled on him, never to leave, he was in profile, turned away, in nothing but his combat boots, busy spreading the proof of his pleasure over the angelic face of a very nice young man who’d worked furiously to procure it.”

WITH BASTIEN Avec Bastien

At the heart of this book lies a mystery: that of a boy from a gay porn movie, watched over and over again, visually devoured. A boy who seems to show everything – body, skin, ass – even as he hides what is most important: his story, his life, his soul. All we know about the narrator of this novel is that he loves boys and porn. But through this obsessive voyeur, withdrawn from the world and locked up inside himself – through his penetrating, generous gaze – we slowly unravel the mystery of the boy in the movie.

Verdier

9782864326113 / 2010 / 128 pages / 14,00 €

Mathieu Riboulet




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Dominique Sylvain

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ROMAN

eSLinfiDèleS

Dominique Sylvain

“An explosive thriller about love, adultery, and infidelity in the internet era, told through the portraits of three women.” François Busnel, La Grande Librairie

THE UNFAITHFUL Les Infidèles

TV24 journalist Salomé Jolain is murdered while investigating an adultery case. Her aunt, Alice Kléber, is the founder of lovalibi.com, a site that provides alibis to adulterous couples. To Captain Barnier, a loving father, and the alluring Lieutenant Maze, this connection is no mere coincidence. As their investigation proceeds, Bar-nier struggles with his feelings for Maze, aware that their feelings cannot be allowed to impinge upon these case.

Viviane Hamy

9791097417024 / 2018 / 359 pages / 19,00 €FIND OUT MORE> Dominique Sylvain’s work has been translated into over fifteen languages,and several of her books have been adapted for film

“Splendidly written: cynical, gemlike, unexpected. A true delight to read.” Marie-France

ODD COUPLINGS Préfère l’impair

Stéphane Billon lives with Florence. After eight years together, Florence wants a child. Exam results reveal Stéphane is sterile. So Florence decides to stay with Stéphane but have a child with Patrick, her lifelong homosexual friend. With this odd menage, Claude Habib turns readers into voyeurs fascinated by the relationships that settle into bitterness among the heroes, or rather, the anti-heroes of this story. The story of an era where efficiency and profitability have devoured our souls.

Viviane Hamy

9791097417604 / 2020 / 416 pages / 7,50 €

Claude Habib

FIND OUT MORE> The first novel by essayist and feministClaude Habib

Lise Chasteloux [email protected] Lise Chasteloux [email protected]




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DOMINIQUE SIGAUD

What’s one of the most dangerous things in the world? Being a girl.

THE CURSE OF GIRLHOOD La malédiction d’être fille

No one can say for sure how many girls are subjected to incest, or killed at birth. 200 million undergo genital mutilation; 60 million suffer sexual violence at school or on their way there. 1 in 9 girls is married before the age of 15; 100,000 fall victim to sex trafficking in the USA alone. Foeticide, infanticide, and sexual abuse underestimated all over the world, mutilations, human trafficking, child marriage, so-called honour killings… Dominique Sigaud reveals the nine-tenths of the iceberg we never normally see.

Albin Michel

9782226440938 / 2019 / 240 pages / 19,90 €

A little-known facet of Islam that restores religious legitimacy to the concept of equal rights between men and women under Islam.

ALLAH AND FEMININITY. WOMEN IN THE SUFI TRADITION

Allah au féminin - Le Féminin et la femme dans la tradition soufie

Éric Geoffroy explores an overlooked Muslim tradition that exalts woman as a creator in God’s image, humanity’s primordial androgynous nature, and the Virgin Mary’s “prophetic” dimension. Passed down by authors such as Rumi, Ibn Arabi, and Emir Abdelkader, this tradition has long been confined to poetry and mysticism, as women 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.

Albin Michel

9782226443502 / 2020 / 256 pages / 19,00 €

Éric Geoffroy

Solène Chabanais [email protected] Solène Chabanais [email protected]

Essays & Humanities Literature & Fiction Illustrated Non-Fiction



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Elisabeth Cadoche, Anne de Montarlot

Why do women all over the world lack confidence in themselves?

IMPOSTOR SYMDROME Le syndrome d’imposture

First identified by two American psychologists in the 1970s, impostor syndrome is an extreme lack of self-confidence whose symptoms include difficulty in valuing one’s own talents and achievements. Today’s women are trapped in a paradox: they consistently get the best results in school, land comparable jobs to men, and yet continue to doubt their abilities. This book combines scientific data with clinical case studies and interviews with famous women. Its purpose: to give women the tools to become aware of their own intrinsic value, and stop basing their self-worth on the opinions of others.

Les Arènes


Rights sold Chinese (contract pending), Dutch (Ten Have), Italian (Longanesi), Spanish (Peninsula/Planeta)

How to escape our narrowminded notions of what sex can be and devise a new erotic repertoire.

LIFT YOUR HEAD UP AND LOOK AROUND: IT’S A NEW WORLD

Sortir du trou, lever la tête

Modern sexuality is seized with great uncertainty, shaken by the questions the MeToo movement has raised, but also beset by unrealistic demands placed upon us all, and by an international decline in libido. Sadly, sexuality is now conceived of as a matter of orifices, reducing women to voids to be filled. Part One of this book traces how histo-ry, culture, and psychoanalysis have drastically narrowed our sexual practices. Part Two lays out a practical and optimistic approach to forging a new sexuality based on ethics, imagination, and compassion.

Éditions Anne Carrière

9782843379291 / 2020 / 416 pages / 21,00 €

Maïa Mazaurette


Julie Finidori (Agent) [email protected] Yasmina Urien (Rights Manager) [email protected]

Sophie Langlais [email protected]




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Céline Bessière, Sibylle Gollac

Contrary to the usual image of the modern family as an emotional haven, this essay traces the resurgence of inheritance-based inequalities under 21st-century capitalism.

CAPITAL AS GENUS: HOW FAMILIES REPRODUCE INEQUALITIES

Le genre du capital - Comment la famille reproduit les inégalités

Why do women accumulate fewer assets than men? Why do marital separations impoverish women while they do not prevent men from becoming wealthy?The answers to these questions lie in the legal intricacies of familial wealth. Such an approach implies breaking with the common conception of the family as an emotio-nal haven of peace in a brutal capitalist world. In reality, the family should be seen as an economic institution unto itself: one that produces, circulates, controls, and evaluates assets. One whose true purpose is revealed during matters of inheritance or marital separation.

La Découverte

9782348044380 / 2020 / 336 pages / 21,00 €

At the intersection of the Atlantic triangular slave trade and the Gallic Hexagone, Maboula Soumahoro recounts her own intellectual journey as well as the social, philosophical, and in short, human difficulties she ran into along the way before finally being able to define her identity as a black woman..

THE TRIANGLE AND THE HEXAGON: REFLECTIONS ON BLACK IDENTITY

Le triangle et l’Hexagone - Réflexions sur une identité noire

“A daughter of France and the Atlantic, I find myself by ancestry, origins, and personal history in the cultural, political, and intellectual vastness of the ‘Black Atlantic’, a space profoundly shaped by history. Here I evoke the space, often called ‘triangular’, that unprecedentedly and permanently connected three continents: Europe, Afri-ca, and the Americas. It encompasses Ivory Coast and the Africa of my parents, and France, my birthplace and current home after many years in North America. Each of these places has its own interpretation of the black body and experience. I give you mine.”

La Découverte

9782348041952 / 2020 / 160 pages / 16,00 €

Maboula Soumahoro

Delphine Ribouchon [email protected] Ribouchon [email protected]




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Clara Moley

Take back control of the game, get what you deserve for your work, and make it on your own terms!

THE RULES OF THE GAME: WHAT EVERY WOMAN NEEDS TO KNOW TO SUCCEED IN THE WORKPLACE

Les Règles du jeu - Ce que toutes les femmes devraient savoir pour réussir au travail

A former stock trader, Clara Moley soon had to face sexism in her male-dominated work environment, and obstacles both inner and and outer that stood between her and success. This book is the story of her awakening and 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.

Dunod

9782100807116 / 2020 / 224 pages / 17,00 €

A complete overview of the concept of gender, illustrated with many concrete examples.

SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER - 2ND ED.

Sociologies du genre (2e édition)

Growing up, working, choosing a partner, having a family, enjoying leisure time, raising children: gender affects key moments in the course of an individual life. This book reveals how gender differences are construc-ted and legitimized by contemporary society. It also describes the primary venues of socialisation that col-laborate in producing them: school, peers, family, media, etc. Finally, it provides insight into the transgressions underway in our societies and the potential social trans-formations they herald.

Armand Colin

9782200623838 / 2019 / 228 pages / 17,90 €

Marie Buscatto

Gail Markham [email protected] Markham [email protected]




ANGÉLIQUE GÉRARD

Feminism in a post-#MeToo era.

LET’S END SEXISM! Pour la fin du sexisme !

Women: one of today’s burning topics. The news seems like a sea of information relating to feminism and women. As if these topics were in the very air when the #MeToo scandal broke out, unleashing an impetus toward equa-lity. Since then, everything having to do with women’s lives has resurfaced: their place in the workforce, equal pay and employment, hiring diversity and the concept of quotas. The issues of female leadership, careers, and management. Parenthood, couplehood, concerns about motherhood and fatherhood.

Eyrolles

9782212572674 / 2019 / 322 pages / 18,00 €FIND OUT MORE> 1,500 copies sold since publication in October 2019

How do we leave binaries behind?

TRANSITIONS Transitions

With today’s medicine and therapeutic procedures, we can alter our anatomies to suit the gender we believe is our own. But many individuals never managed to reconcile themselves with their identities, torn by ambivalence between biology and social roles. Forming an identity is like putting together a puzzle, each of whose pieces are taken from your familial and social surroundings. Psy-chiatrist and psychoanalyst Serge Hefez has written an ambitious and accessible book urging us to do away with the preconception that knowing who you are means fitting into a existing categories.

Calmann-Levy


Serge Hefez

Patricia Roussel [email protected] Viviane Alloing [email protected]

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Antoinette Fouque, Preface by Alain Touraine

Revisits the most striking themes of a politically engaged theoretical work from 1968, disseminatedin debates, conferences, and publications by the Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (MLF) and the group Psychanalyse et Politique.

GRAVIDANZA: FEMINOLOGY II

Gravidanza : Féminologie, Tome 2

“At first, it was hard to hear the voice in question. It was muffled by the furor of campaigns and controversies. But after reading There Are Two Sexes, that voice is now all I can hear, more clearly and audibly than the rest. As a voice, it’s insistent yet reserved, full of passion and ima-ginative creativity, rich with secrets and revelations. I’ve never heard anything like it, except in Rimbaud... What I’m trying to say goes much farther than recognizing the importance of a single thread of feminism. It is about sensing the transition, or rather, transformation, of one culture into another, in which this new feminism played a central role.” Alain Touraine

Éditions des femmes - Antoinette Fouque

9782721005656 / 2007 / 370 pages / 15,25 €

A practical guide to activism for a new generation of feminists.

CLIT REVOLUTION: A MANUAL FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM

Clit révolution : manuel d’activisme féministe

“I’m a feminist and I’d like to do something concrete, but I don’t know where to start. Do you have any advice?”After seeing this kind of message on their social networks, feminist activists Sarah Constantin and Elvire Duvelle-Charles realized they needed to write a book. The next generation of feminists needed a practical guide to activism, one that told them how to transform their ideas into concrete actions and showed them that every last one of them had the means to change society, either on their own or as part of a group.

Éditions des femmes - Antoinette Fouque

9782721007254 / 2020 / 200 pages / 16,00 €

Sarah Constantin, Elvire Duvelle Charles, Alice Des (illustrations)

Christine Villeneuve [email protected] Christine Villeneuve [email protected]

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Odille Chabrillac

Witches are back!

SOUL OF A WITCH Âme de sorcière

A subversive symbol of the feminist revolution, witches have made a noteworthy comeback in the last few years. Ready to challenge our choices, our approach to the world, our bodies, our rationality, and our sexuality, they have taught us to learn from their history, their lore, and their powers to discover our own.

Solar

9782263148873 / 2017 / 240 pages / 18,90 €


Desire, pleasure, contraception, STDs… welcome to the sexual workload.

THE SEXUAL WORKLOAD La charge sexuelle

In this powerful and political critique, Clémentine Gallot and her co-author Caroline Michel inventory the various forms the sexual workload takes in intimacy: being ready to please, worrying about our partner’s libido and our own, looking for information about a more fulfilling sexual life, taking charge of birth control... In showing how the sexual workload can be comparable to the idea of “mental load”, this book offer keys and tips to help everyone toward a happy, open and inclusive sexuality of their own invention.

First

9782412055250 / 2020 / 208 pages / 14,95 €

Clémentine Gallot, Caroline Michel

James Elliott [email protected] James Elliott [email protected]

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Emmanuelle Richard

“I spoke with men and women who, like myself, no longer make love.”

BODIES IN ABSTINENCE Les corps abstinents

In the competitive arenas of personal development, enter-tainment and leisure, consumption and pleasure (and its by-product, the obligation to ‘get your rocks off’ with just about everything), a life without sex is an invisible life. But voluntary or not, abstinence begins as a perception, a fee-ling. Over the course of a year, Emmanuelle Richard met with women and men who entrusted her with intimate details of their sex lives. Their anonymized words inform her own experience of emptiness. In every instance, one overriding issue stands out for those who no longer make love: the lack of a sense of touch.

Flammarion

9782081504370 / 2020 / 288 pages / 19,00 €Rights sold English, German, Japanese, Spanish


On the submissiveness and oppression of women.

NO ONE IS BORN SUBMISSIVE, THEY BECOME THAT WAY

On ne naît pas soumise, on le devient

Taboo in philosophy and often overlooked in feminism, women’s submissiveness has never been analyzed in detail, in the full complexity of its lived experience.Following in the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir, Manon Garcia powerfully tackles the question: because unders-tanding why women submit of their own free will is a necessary precursor to any form of liberation.

Flammarion

9782081439412 / 2018 / 272 pages / 19,00 €

Manon Garcia

Florence Giry [email protected] Florence Giry [email protected]

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Collective

Gallimard

An unprecedented and politically relevant study on the place of women in literature, analyzing in depth their exceedingly slow evolution from object to subject, from the Middle Ages to our era.

An unprecedented and politically relevant study on the place of women in literature, analyzing in depth their exceedingly slow evolution from object to subject, from the Middle Ages to our era.

WOMEN AND LITERATURE, A CULTURAL HISTORY VOLUME 1: MIDDLE AGES - 18TH CENTURY

WOMEN AND LITERATURE, A CULTURAL HISTORY19TH - 21ST CENTURY. FRANCOPHONIA

Femmes et littérature Une histoire culturelle, tome I : Moyen Âge - XVIIIe siècle

Femmes et littérature - Une histoire culturelle, tome II : XIXe - XXIe siècle. Francophonies

The result of several years of research carried out collec-tively by ten French and American academics, this book is the first comprehensive survey of women’s works in lite-rature, from the Middle Ages to the 21st century in France and Francophone countries. These two volumes cover not only works in the classic literary genres, but also essays, correspondence, diaries and autobiographies, journalism, popular literature, and children’s literature. This overview calls for a full-scale reassessment of literary works by men and women, and for a new understanding of French and Francophone literature.

The result of several years of research carried out collec-tively by ten French and American academics, this book is the first comprehensive survey of women’s works in lite-rature, from the Middle Ages to the 21st century in France and Francophone countries. These two volumes cover not only works in the classic literary genres, but also essays, correspondence, diaries and autobiographies, journalism, popular literature, and children’s literature. This overview calls for a full-scale reassessment of literary works by men and women, and for a new understanding of French and Francophone literature.

Gallimard

9782070465705 / 2020 / 1040 pages / 13,50 € 9782072889707 / 2020 / 592 pages / 10,30 €

Collective

Judith Rosenzweig [email protected] Judith Rosenzweig [email protected]

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Jacques Balthazart

The male brain is not built the same way as its female counterpart. A politically incorrect yet scientifitically accurate book.

WHEN THE BRAIN BECOMES MALE

Quand le cerveau devient masculin

Genderless at conception, the brain becomes more mas-culine in the embryo and then, during infancy, is further altered by a veritable tsunami of hormones. One of the subject’s finest specialists lucidly details the exact extent to which genes and sexual hormones, in concert with the environment, influence boys’ behavior, demonstrating how the male brain changes over time. Jacques Balthazart is a neuroendocrinologist and eme-ritus researcher with the Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Research Group at the University of Liège.

Humensciences

9782379310362 / 2019 / 256 pages / 21,90 €

“A call for emancipation from the capitalist, heteronormative, and racist ideas of today’s society.” Cheek Magazine

UNCONDITIONAL EQUALITY L’égalité sans condition

Political philosopher and committed feminist Réjane Sénac challenges the conventional notions of equality as a myth to be deconstructed in order to work towards an unconditional equality: beyond gender, social, ethnic, and racial origins; and religious or sexual preference. Sénac critiques the motto of the French republic, demonstrating that equality can only exist if it is freed from empty talk about the performance of diversity. Women must be equal to men in principle, not because they bring something more to the table.

Rue de l’échiquier

9782374251479 / 2019 / 96 pages / 10,00 €

Réjane Sénac

Christian Voges [email protected] Sandrine Paccher [email protected]

Rights sold Japanese

FIND OUT MORE> 2,000 copies sold> Nominated for the 2019 Knowledge Prize

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Séverine Auffret

Although feminism as a political movement came about in 19th-century Europe, feminist ideas have implicitly or explicitly been expressed throughout the world since Antiquity, against dominant misogynistic discourses and customs.

A HISTORY OF FEMINISM FROM ANCIENT GREECE TO THE PRESENT ERA

Une histoire du féminisme de l’Antiquité grecque à nos jours

Alternating profiles, stories, and analysis, Séverine Auffret traces the evolution of feminist ideas from their first appearances through more contemporary issues in this lively and unprecedented tome. Readers will meet Amazons, Simone de Beauvoir, Sap-pho, and Diderot, and be transported from ancient Egypt to the Pre-Columbian Americas. A philosopher and editor of 17th-century philosopher Gabrielle Suchon’s oeuvre, Séverine Auffret teaches a seminar in feminist studies at the People’s University of Caen.

Éditions de l’Observatoire

9791032901113 / 2018 / 700 pages / 24,00 €

Rights sold Spanish (World)

Whether joyful or tragic, visible or invisible, turning points punctuate our lives, transform us, and make us question ourselves.

TURNING POINTS Rupture(s)

For philosopher Claire Marin, our lives are defined as much by the beaten path as when we leave it, in the promises we make and break alike. Birth, mourning, divorce, new love, wanderlust: our strayings and hesita-tions unsettle our self-image and rattle our certainies. But they also remind us life is fundamentally unpredic-table, and strengthen our capacity to deal with uncer-tainty, work with disasters, surmount them, and start over again. Claire Marin is a philosophy professor for post-baccalaureate students preparing for the Grandes écoles and an associate member of the École Normale Supérieure-Ulm.

Éditions de l’Observatoire

9791032903360 / 2019 / 160 pages / 16,00 €

Claire Marin

Sandrine Paccher [email protected] Sandrine Paccher [email protected]

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Sabine Melchior-Bonnet

Sabine Melchior-Bonnet studies breakups by asking questions about the basis of falling in and out of love, the parts played by cultural and religious conventions, the burden of morality, and the arsenals of legislation.

LOVE’S PITFALLS: A HISTORY OF BREAKING UP

Les revers de l’amour - une histoire de la rupture

From Héloïse and Abélard to Onassis and Callas, by way of George Sand and Alfred de Musset, the infidelities of Louis XIV, or the divorce of Lady Di and Charles, Sabine Melchior-Bonnet gives us the chapter that has been missing from the story of romantic relationships. A story that, naturally, ends poorly. Sabine Melchior-Bonnet is a historian specializing in the history of emotion. Among 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].

PUF

9782130818502 / 2019 / 480 pages / 22,00 €

Rights sold Russian (World)

Accessible, rich, and as inventive in its factual research as in its critical examination, this history of sexualities traces the great stages and evolutions of norms and attitudes.

HISTORY OF SEXUALITIES Une histoire des sexualités

A “totalizing social fact“, sexuality stands at the inter-section of several kinds of historical approaches: social, anthropological, cultural, linguistic. It is impossible to speak of sexuality today without using the tools forged in studying the history of gender. More than ever, sexuality has become an essential field of history.Sylvie Steinberg is the Director of Studies at EHESS, spe-cializing in the modern era. She is a member of the journal Clio - Women, Gender, History.

PUF

9782130729792 / 2018 / 528 pages / 22,00 €

Sylvie Steinberg (dir.)


Rights sold Brazil (World)

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Éric Touya de Marenne

A privileged witness to her era, Simone de Beauvoir influenced a broad range of subjects, including gender studies, and occupies an eminent place in contemporary thought.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Simone de Beauvoir

Éric Touya de Marenne revisits the protean life and work of Simone de Beauvoir, demonstrating how it can enlighten us and deepen our understanding of the great issues of our time: human freedom and responsibility, the female condition, the fight for justice, and dialogue between peoples. Éric Touya de Marenne teaches 20th-century literature at Clemson University in South Carolina (USA).

Que sais-je ?

9782130814658 / 2019 / 128 pages / 9,00 €Rights sold Chinese

Introduction to an important current topic written by Florence Rochefort, a renowned specialist in the history of feminism, women, and gender.

WORLD HISTORY OF FEMINISM

Histoire mondiale des féminismes

The late 18th-century revolutions first brought up the matter of rights, citizenship, and women’s liberation. Various forms of feminism took root on every continent to free half the human population to speak and act. Florence Rochefort traces these transnational interactions and the major characteristics of modes of thought and mobili-zation against gender inequality and in favor of female freedom, as well as new gender norms.

Que sais-je ?

9782130732846 / 2018 / 160 pages / 9,00 €

Florence Rochefort


Rights sold Korean, Turkish

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Annick Cojean

Le Monde journalist Annick Cojean interviews 25 women on the defining moments of their lives that made them who they are today.

I’D NEVER HAVE MADE IT THIS FAR IF…

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Annick Cojean asked 25 exceptional women to complete this sentence: “I’d never have made it this far if…” Everyone willingly replied. From Virginie Despentes to Patti Smith, Marianne Faithfull to Nicole Kidman, Vanes-sa Redgrave to Brigitte Bardot. From Iranian lawyer and Nobel Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi to feminist Eve Ensler… These women tell their stories with disarming sincerity. What shaped them? What have they learned in life? What can they share with young women, who will, in their wake, struggle to make their voices heard in a world where the rules are made by men?

Grasset

9782246815808 / 2018 / 320 pages / 20,00 €

Rights sold German (Aufbau), Korean (Millet)

FIND OUT MORE> Adapted into a play by Judith Henry for Le Théâtre Libre

“When it comes to women’s health, there are no stupid questions, or, for that matter, forbidden ones: only questions it’s perfectly OK to ask.”

IT’S MY BODY! C’est mon corps

This book answers all the questions today’s women have about their bodies and their health: a simple, concrete response to the current crisis in medical standards of care. Women everywhere want to reclaim power over their bodies and their health, asserting their right to well-considered answers. This book is for all women, regardless of age, sexual orientation, or whether or not they want to bear children. There are key chapters on such major topics as menstruation, contraception, pregnancy, invasive practices during childbirth, etc. Martin Winckler is a writer and feminist doctor.

L’Iconoclaste

9782378801267 /2020 (forthcoming)400 pages / 22,90 €

Martin Winckler

Sophie Langlais [email protected] Christiaan van Raaijen [email protected]

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Marina Yaguello

A sociolinguistic approach to the female condition.

WORDS AND WOMEN Les mots et les femmes

How do women speak? When amongst themselves? When spoken to? And how are they spoken of? Do men and wo-men speak the same language? What role do sexual me-taphors, denigrating connotations, and sexually charged insults play in maintaining a sexist ideology? This study explores the sexual diversity of language as a cultural, rather than “natural” phenomenon.

Payot

9782228921602 / 2018 / 272 pages / 8,50 €


Interdisciplinary readings on armed feminist revolt.

SISTERS IN ARMS: WOMEN AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE

S’émanciper par les armes ? Sur la violence politique des femmes

Western democracies are experiencing a wave of revolu-tionary violence. Armed Far-Leftist groups are becoming involved in social protest as a political tool, and so are wo-men. A climate like that of the 1970s, sites of resistance, and the fight for freedom are conducive to renegotiating gender roles. Today’s women are also at the heart of a national struggle to liberate certain Turkish and Kurdish Leftist organizations, just as they once were in Latin America and South Asia.

Presses de l’INALCO

9782858313273 / 2019 / 238 pages / 25,00 €

Caroline Guibet Lafaye, Alexandra Frenod

Nathalie Bretzner [email protected] Diotallevi [email protected]

Marie-Martine Serrano [email protected]

FIND OUT MORE> Published on OpenEdition, a platform for open-access academic books and journals> Print run: 350 copies/Sold: 178

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Yannick Ripa, Collective

An introduction to women in world history by the finest French historians.

THE TRUE HISTORY OF WOMEN FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE PRESENT

La véritable histoire des femmes, de l’Antiquité à nos jours

Queens, courtesans, nuns, geishas, mothers, intellec-tuals, prostitutes, laborers, feminists: this unprecedented work gathers the finest specialists on women’s history to tell us their true stories. The authors deconstruct received notions of women that still affect us today, detailing their lives from Athens to ancient Rome, Medieval or Revolutio-nary France, 18th-century Japan, or 19th-century Paris; in palaces, homes, convents, workplaces; at war or in the streets fighting for their rights and lives.

Nouveau Monde Éditions

9782369428534 / 2019 / 288 pages / 19,90 €

FIND OUT MORE> Contributors include Alain Corbin, Jacques Le Goff, Mona Ozouf, Michelle Perrot, etc.

18 profiles of exceptional women, from Antiquity to our era.

REBELS Les insoumises

Ever heard of Hypathia, 4th-century mathematician and philosopher? Nicole Lepaute and Hélène Metzger, whose work revolutionized the world of science? Or Victoria Woodhull, who dared run for president of the U.S.A. when women weren’t even allowed to vote yet? Greek, Italian, French, English, American, or German, these women all had one thing in common: astonishing willpower and détermination. That’s what it takes to live the way you want in a misogynistic society. Here are the stories of 18 exceptional women, from Anti-quity to our own times, each more amazing than the last.

Nouveau Monde Éditions

9782369426738 / 2018 / 256 pages / 8,00 €

Jean Haechler

Yannick Dehée [email protected] Yannick Dehée [email protected]

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Amélie Le Renard

Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai.

WESTERN PRIVILEGE Le privilège occidental

Dubai, the crossroads of neoliberal globalization, is the incarnation par excellence of the advantages associated with being a white Westerner. In Dubai, Westerners stand out as a social group unto themselves, structurally pri-vileged in the job market and the private sphere, despite other categories of gender, class, race, and sexuality. Through accounts from over a hundred inhabitants and expatriates, this work offers readers a unique and inci-sive glimpse into the current reconfigurations of Western hegemony.

Presses de Sciences Po

9782724624304 / 2019 / 272 pages / 24,00 €Rights sold English

Isn’t it about time we freed ourselves from gender?

THE TYRANNY OF GENDER La tyrannie du genre

Although sociologists have extensively studied gender in order to reveal power structures, brandishing it at every opportunity has paradoxically reinforced the idea that men and women are not individuals but first and foremost representatives of their sex. In the name of distinctions wrongly thought of as natural, we are assigned roles that are specific, stereotypical, and unequal.

Presses de Sciences Po

9782724621402 / 2017 / 309 pages / 17,00 €Marie Duru-Bellat

Nathalie Larmanjat [email protected] Nathalie Larmanjat [email protected]

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Fabienne Brugère

What does it mean to be a woman, at every stage of life?

NO ONE’S BORN A WOMAN, YOU BECOME ONE

On ne naît pas femme, on le devient

Fifty years after feminism began, where are we now? The struggle by and for women is still diversifying to this day, expressed on social networks with slogans and demons-trations. But where are we really, in our day-to-day lives? This book is a plea to liberate the so-called “ordinary” woman: everyone who isn’t a hero our out there in the trenches all the time. Fabienne Brugère explores what it means to be a girl, a young woman, and a woman in her prime, in today’s world.

Stock

9782234086210 / 2019 / 224 pages / 17,50 €FIND OUT MORE> English synopsis available

From the formation of patriarchal societies to feminist leaders and struggles, a sociological and historical fresco that embraces all eras and continents, even exploring prehistoric societies.

JUST MEN Des hommes justes

Built up over millennia of stereotypes and institutions, the model of the traditional male is obsolete. Old-fashioned and harmful as any machine designed to dominate wo-men (and men whose masculinity is judged illegitimate), its pernicious influence persists. Gender inequality is still rampant worldwide. What is the next utopian project, then? To invent new types of manhood. To transform mas-culinity so as to make it compatible with women’s rights and incompatible with patriarchal hierarchies. How can we ensure that respect women’s rights? When it comes to gender equality, what is a “good guy”?

Éditions du Seuil

9782021401561 / 2019 / 448 pages / 22,00 €

Ivan Jablonka

Maria Vlachou [email protected] Maÿlis Vauterin [email protected]

Rights sold Castilian Spanish (World), English (World), German, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil)


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Elisabeth Badinter, Cartooning for Peace

Cartooning for Peace, an international network of over 160 editorial cartoonists, uses humor to fight for freedom and cultural respect.

MAKE WAY FOR WOMEN! 60 EDITORIAL CARTOONS

Place aux femmes ! 60 dessins de presse

Even today, women’s rights are too often challenged or ignored. Élisabeth Badinter reminds us that, though there have been a few shake-ups recently, women still have a long way to go before their rights are respected. Selected by Cartooning for Peace, these 60 editorial cartoons from around the world paint a portrait of the injustices and violence women face every day, whether in education, sexuality, work, or religion.

Gallimard Loisirs

9782742449385 / 2017 / 120 pages / 12,00 €

Rights sold Korean, Spanish

FIND OUT MORE> 10 titles in the small-format series > 12,000 copies sold

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, this book collects 120 editorial cartoons on the current situation of women all around the globe.

WOMEN OF THE WORLD, UNITE! 120 EDITORIAL CARTOONS

En avant toutes ! 120 dessins de presse

Although our society seems to be engaged in reconsid- ering the status of women, with an eye toward equal rights for all, respect for the rights of individual women is still far from guaranteed. This collection, prefaced by journalist and women’s history specialist Laure Adler, is a collaboration with Amnesty International. Its 120 edi-torial cartoons, selected by Cartooning for Peace, paint a portrait of women worldwide and their plight in sup-port of feminist struggle, while denouncing violence and repression perpetrated upon women.

Gallimard Loisirs

9782742461585 / 2020 / 144 pages / 19,50 €

Laure Adler, Cartooning for Peace

Hélène Clastres [email protected] Hélène Clastres [email protected]

FIND OUT MORE> 5 titles in the large-format series

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Illustrated Non-Fiction Literature & Fiction Essays & Humanities


Julia Pietri

A must-read for feminists who want to make a difference in their everyday lives.

YOU AREN’T BORN A FEMINIST, YOU BECOME ONE

On ne nait pas féministe, on le dévient

This is the book women have been waiting for! Powerful, political, and perfect for the Feminist 4th Wave, just like its author! Julia Pietri speaks to all women of all ages, in lan-guage freed from stereotypes and censorship. Parenting, sex, self-confidence, pregnancy, work... she covers every imaginable subject, providing an overview of the condition of women today. A fervent feminist who supports male/female equality, 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.

Leduc.s Éditions

9791028516871 / 2020 / 192 pages / 19,00 €


“Ever since #MeToo, we’ve shared everything, even pleasure!”

KAMA SUTRA Kamasutra

A chic and contemporary Kama Sutra to help today’s wo-man find mutual pleasure with her partner.Featuring 60 positions, sensually and tastefully illustrated by Petite Bohème, this Kama Sutra is for every woman who aspires to express her own femininity and increase her pleasure in total sensual freedom. Lucile Bellan has carefully selected postures from classics to naughty taboos, adding a short preface to each one, to put you in the mood and heighten your senses. A detailed descrip-tion of the position follows. A decidedly feminist approach that represents both sexes equally!

Leduc.s Éditions

9791028516895 / 2020 / 144 pages / 19,90 €

Lucille Bellan, Petite Bohème

Laurence Badot [email protected] Laurence Badot [email protected]


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Anne-Sophie Lesage, Fanny Lesage

Learn to say “Fuck it!”

THE GIRL WHO SAID “FUCK IT!”

Celle qui a dit fuck

Discover the diary of a young woman, warts and all, who decided to say “Fuck it!” Be privy to her ups, down, rou-tines, and rituals as she learns to be a free, uninhibited woman. After all, Beyoncé didn’t become Beyoncé in one day!

Solar

9782263153297 / 2018 / 224 pages / 16,90 €

Rights sold Italian, Chinese (Traditional)

FIND OUT MORE> 30,000 copies sold> A 2019 sequel (Toss Off That Cape) and a new sketchbook to teach us how to say “Fuck It!” in 2020.

Amazing women, forgotten pioneers in their fields, finally get their say.

TROUBLEMAKERS Les infréquentables

Discover, in this beautifuly illustrated book, 40 profiles of women from around the world who were the baddest ladies of their time. Among them: Hypatia, a greek neoplasticist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician; Maud Wagner, the first female tattoo artist in the United States; Mary Anning, a palaeontologist and fossil collector; Trota of Salerno, a doctor and surgeon during the Middle Ages; and more!

First

9782412062029 / 2020 / 192 pages / 20,95 €Collective

James Elliott [email protected] James Elliott [email protected]

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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! A GUIDE TO STYLE Chic ! Le guide qui donne du style

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 and Lucille Renie dispense valuable 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!

Le Cherche Midi

9782749164243 / 2019 / 208 pages / 25,00 €

Christine Lombard, Lucille Renie

Élisabeth Stempak [email protected]

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