Cova, Anne2021-12-152021-12-152021Cova, A. (2021). Feminisms and neo-Malthusianisms during the French Third Republic: Madeleine Pelletier and Nelly Roussel through the lens of their literary production. DEP. Deportati, esuli, profughe, 47, 1-221824-4483http://hdl.handle.net/10451/50417Feminisms and neo-Malthusianisms emerged in France as movements at the end of the nineteenth century. The neo-Malthusian feminists were a minority among feminists and within the neo-Malthusians. Nevertheless, they defended original topics which remained taboo at their time like the right for women to access abortion and sexual pleasure. These demands were part of a broader agenda that two French neo-Malthusian feminists, Madeleine Pelletier (1874-1939) and Nelly Roussel (1878-1922), both qualified as “integral feminism”, understood as the economic, intellectual, legal, political, religious, sexual and social emancipation of women. In such a wide range of claims, this article focuses on a comparative approach of how Pelletier and Roussel became neo-Malthusian “integral feminists”, analysing the similitudes and differences in their trajectories and showing how their literary production was a significant part of their activism.engjournal article