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Alice Coffin
Alice Coffin in 2019
Councillor of Paris
Incumbent
Assumed office
28 June 2020
MayorAnne Hidalgo
Personal details
Born (1978-04-29) 29 April 1978 (age 46)
Toulouse, France
Political partyEurope Ecology – The Greens
OccupationActivist

Alice Coffin (French pronunciation: [alis kɔfɛ̃]; born April 29, 1978) is a French journalist, feminist, lesbian activist and politician. She was elected to the Council of Paris in 2020. She is affiliated to the political party Europe Ecology – The Greens, without being a member of this party.

In 2020, she published Le Génie lesbien (The Lesbian Genius). In the book, she makes a case for women to banish men and masculine culture from their lives.

Biography

She joined the feminist group La Barbe in 2010 and created the Association de journalistes LGBT along with other colleagues in 2013.

In June 2020, she was elected to the Council of Paris for the centre-left-to-left green political party Europe Ecology – The Greens.

Controversy

In her 2020 essay Le Génie lesbien (The Lesbian Genius) Coffin urges women to eradicate men from their lives. She says she considered titling the essay ‘misandre’ (man-hater) and claims misandry to be an integral part of her feminism.

After the first round of the 2022 French Presidential Election, Alice Coffin denounced "political mediocrity" within the Green Party, and voiced the opinion that their candidate Yannick Jadot "had screwed up".

Publications

  • (fr) Le Génie lesbien (The Lesbian Genius), Grasset, 2020

References

  1. ^ "Men should have no place in women's minds, says a new book". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  2. https://www.ouest-france.fr/societe/famille/feminisme/portrait-alice-coffin-elue-ecolo-a-paris-assume-son-feminisme-radical-7002953 Ouest-France (in French)
  3. Paris, Adam Sage (2023-07-07). "Alice Coffin: 'man-hater' splits French feminists". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  4. Védie, Léa (2022-02-21). "Hating men will free you? Valerie Solanas in Paris or the discursive politics of misandry". European Journal of Women's Studies. 28 (3): 305–319. doi:10.1177/13505068211028896. S2CID 236980500. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
  5. Alice Coffin dénonce "une médiocrité politique" chez EELV et affirme que "Yannick Jadot s'est planté" (in French), retrieved 2022-05-06


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