June 1, 2020
Jacinthe Michaud, « Deux générations de militantisme journalistique féministe avec Québécoises deboutte ! (1969-1974) et La vie en rose (1980-1987) », Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies, ID : 10.4000/eccs.3526
This article proposes a critical analysis of feminist journals within Québécois feminism during the 1970s and the 1980s. During that time period, journals like Québécoises deboutte ! (1969-1974) and La vie en rose (1980-1987) were laboratories for new ideas and analyses, and these ideas, in turn, were transmitted to inform political struggles. The transformation of feminism and women’s collectives from the end of the 1960s until the middle of the 1980s is observed through the evolution of these journals, the themes they addressed and the ways in which they dealt with such issues. The article revisits the generation of feminist activists who created these journals, who were successful in positioning them at the heart of their movement and of multiple ways of thinking, and who reflected on the importance of a counter-information press. More specifically, La vie en rose is highlighted as it is a journal that provoked a rupture with women’s groups while attempting to create a new feminist “avant-garde”. The article ends with a discussion of the place of feminist journals within feminism and their displacement to the periphery of the movement, hence provoking a rupture – partial and/or temporary – between the cultural and the political spheres.