![]() ![]() Marguerite Nebelsztein: Erasure refers to the process of making a woman disappear from history. Do not assume sources tell the story as it is: you have to scratch beyond the surface to see what lies beneath.Ĭafébabel: Could you explain to us what you mean by 'erasure'? How does it happen? However, her story was reduced to a catfight with Fredegund ( another Frankish queen, ed.). For example, the only extensive study on Brunhilda comes from a book written by Bruno Dum é zil he completely rewrote her story and put her in her place. Decrypting women's history is also a matter of questioning the sources. When I delved deeper, I realised that her fight was nothing like the story we are told. In the case of Rosa Parks, for example, it all started from reading a short sentence in an article in Libération on a whim. Marguerite Nebelsztein: We had to dig deep. Marguerite Nebelsztein: Not by copying and pasting from Wikipedia pages (laughs)! Simply writing biographies for each of the women by themselves would not have been very interesting. Instead, we wanted to focus on the reasons why women have been made invisible.Ĭafébabel: Can you describe the process of recovering these women from anonymity and discovering the truth behind widely accepted history? I studied history, so I felt comfortable writing about Brunhilda ( a Frankish queen, ed.).Ĭafébabel: What was the research process for your project like? ![]() For example, an author called Flora Pajon knew Delia Derbyshire ( a pioneer of electronic music, ed.) very well so she suggested including her in the volume and wrote an entry for her. After that, everyone contributed ideas according to their own affinities. Our editor encouraged us to ask ourselves: "If this woman had been a man, would she appear in history books?" That was the guiding principle of the project. The rest was the result of exchanges and new discoveries as we went along. Marguerie Nebelsztein: First, we drew our inspiration from our Tumblr page. The idea was shelved until last year, when we were directly contacted by a publishing house, Hugo & Cie, and it all started from there.Ĭafébabel: How did you choose the 'invisible women' you would go on to write about in the book? At the time, we dreamt of making it into a book. Marguerite Nebelsztein: The project was born in 2015 from our Tumblr page Invisible Women. In response to the systematic erasure of women from history books, Georgette Sand, a French feminist collective, wrote Ni Vues Ni Connues.Ĭafébabel: So, how was the project Ni Vues Ni Connues ( meaning 'neither seen nor known' in French, ed.) born? History rarely keeps track of important women in fact, it often renders them invisible. Did you know that the oldest university in the world was founded by a woman? Or that the father of rock'n'roll was not a father at all, but a mother? Probably not.
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