Catherine Deudon was born in 1940 in Orléans (France). To a father working as a pharmacist and to a mother who was a former gym teacher and who became a housewife after her wedding, Catherine Deudon became interested in politics by the age of 16 through the Algerian War and after the reading of “Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir. In the 1960s, she worked as the assistant to Denise Colomb, a French photographer. She observed the May 1968 events without taking part to them. She also published a few photographs in “L’Idiot International”, a French newspaper. She discovered the feminist movement “Mouvement de la Libération des femmes” in 1970 and began to photograph its demonstrations, mainly in Paris in 1970-1971, followed by the “Ni putes ni soumises” movement in the 2010s. Her photographs are distributed by the Roger-Viollet agency, and the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand has regularly bought many of them.
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Demonstration organized by the French feminist movement "Ni putes, ni soumises" (Neither Whores nor [...]
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Demonstration organized by the French feminist movement "Ni putes, ni soumises" (Neither Whores nor [...]
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Demonstration organized by the French feminist movement "Ni putes, ni soumises" (Neither Whores nor [...]
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International women's march in solidarity with the American feminist movement. Paris, on November [...]
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Commemoration of the women of the Paris Commune (1871). Centre, wearing a hat, Monique Wittig [...]
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Demonstration against a program on homosexuality presented by Ménie Grégoire (1919-2014), French [...]
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First demonstration counting 5,000 to 10,000 people, denouncing the horror of illegal abortions and [...]
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International Women's Day: "All together for women's rights", by the MLF. Bourse de Paris, March [...]
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Demonstration on Mother's Day. Paris, May 28, 1972. Photograph by Catherine Deudon (born in 1940). [...]
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Shooting of Chantal Akerman's film, an adaptation of Sylvia Plath's book "Letters home". Delphine [...]
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From left to right: Yvette Roudy (born in 1929), French politician, and Simone de Beauvoir [...]
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Gay Pride. Paris, 2009.
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Press conference during the formation of the MLAC association (Movement for freedom of abortion and [...]
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Demonstration with "Ni putes, ni soumises" (Neither Whores nor Submissives) and SOS Racisme for [...]
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Monique Antoine (1933-2015), French laywer, co-founder and president (1973-1975) of the Mouvement [...]
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Roland Castro (1940-2023), French architect and political activist, running for the 2007 [...]
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Demonstration of women supporting Nilofar Bakhtiar (born in 1957), a Pakistani politician [...]
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International Women's Day: "All together for women's rights". Marie-George Buffet and Jean-Luc [...]
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Sit-in in front of the Palais de Justice to protest against the acquittal of Marie Andrée Marion's [...]
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On the right, Monique Piton, worker and union representative for Lip at the Etats généraux on [...]
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Gathering of the members of the MLF (Women's Liberation Movement). Paris, March 8th, [...]
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Demonstration in favour of criminalising rape. Banner "Viol de nuit Terre des hommes". Paris, May [...]
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Demonstration against violence towards women. Women marching and wearing white masks. November [...]
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March for free abortion and birth control, supporting the Veil law, where 50 000 women [...]
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Christine Delphy, chief editor of the magazine "Nouvelles Questions féministes", Camille Lacoste, [...]
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Rehearsal of "Letters home", a collection of letters written by Sylvia Plath. Delphine and Coralie [...]
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"Ainsi soit-elle" by Benoîte Groult, 25 years later : Clémentine Autain (née en 1973) et Thomas [...]
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Colloquium on "Choosing the cause of women", at Unesco. On the rostrum : Anne Zelinski, Maya [...]
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March for free abortion and birth control, supporting the Veil law, where 50 000 women [...]
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International Women's Day: "All together for women's rights". Paris, March 7th, 2009. Photograph by [...]
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International Women's Day: "All together for women's rights". Paris, March 7th, 2009. Photograph by [...]
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"Women's fair" on June 17th, 1973. On the stage, Madeleine Laïk and Annie Cohen, writers. [...]
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50 000 femmes dans la rue pour l'avortement et la contraception libres et gratuits, 6 octobre 1979. [...]
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Demonstration of women against anti-Semitism, following the attack on the synagogue on rue [...]
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Demonstration for the reimbursement of abortion by the French social security system. October 23rd, [...]
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Press launch of the "Nouvelles questions féministes" magazine's new issue: Women and the State. [...]
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World March of Women against violence and poverty. June 2000. Group of Algerian women. Photograph [...]
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50 000 femmes dans la rue pour la liberté de l'avortement et le soutien de la loi Veil. [...]
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The Black Women's Coordination at a demonstration during International Women's Day. Paris, March [...]
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"Etats Généraux des femmes des Quartiers" at la Sorbonne. Paris, January 26th and 27th, 2002. [...]
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World March of Women against violence and poverty. June 2000. African woman. Photograph by [...]
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Hélène Cixous (born in 1937), French author, at a reading in a bookshop. November 2006. Photograph [...]
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Demonstration against violence towards women. Josée Pépin. November 25, 2008. Photograph by [...]
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"Etats Généraux des femmes des Quartiers" at la Sorbonne. January 26th and 27th, 2002. Photograph [...]
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"The 3 F's". Electricity course for women. Paris, October 25th to 28th, 1983. Photograph by [...]
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International Women's Day: "All together for women's rights". Paris, March 7th, 2009. Sabine [...]
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"Women against sexism": Meeting in December 1983. Maya Surduts (1937-2016), French activist, is [...]
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Manifestation contre l'année de la femme et le ministère Giroud (Françoise Giroud, secrétaire [...]
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March for equal rights in Warsaw and solidarity rally in front of the Polish embassy by LGBT [...]
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International conference in Paris for the 100th birthday of Simone de Beauvoir at the Réfectoire [...]