Élisabeth Badinter is a French author, feminist, historian, and professor of Philosophy

Philosophy

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 at the École Polytechnique

École Polytechnique

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 in Paris

Paris

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.

She is the daughter of the late Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet

Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet

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, founder of the Publicis Groupe, and the wife of Robert Badinter

Robert Badinter

Robert Badinter is a high-profile French criminal lawyer, university professor and politician mainly known for his struggle against the death penalty, the abolition of which he successfully sponsored in Parliament in 1981...

, a famous French lawyer, law professor and previous French Minister of Justice. They have a son, Simon Badinter. According to Challenges, she is also one of the most wealthy French citizens (number 58) with a fortune of around 750 million euros in 2011.

A 2010 Marianne news magazine

Marianne (magazine)

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 poll named Badinter France's "most influential intellectual," partly on the basis of her books on feminism and motherhood.

Works

• L'Amour en plus : histoire de l'amour maternel (XVIIe-XXe siècle), 1981, ISBN 2253029440
• Les Goncourt : « Romanciers et historiens des femmes », foreword of « La Femme au XVIIe siècle d'Edmond
  Edmond de Goncourt
  Edmond de Goncourt , born Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt, was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.-Biography:...
  
   et Jules de Goncourt
  Jules de Goncourt
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   », 1981,
• Émilie, Émilie, L'ambition féminine au XVIIIe siècle, 1983, ISBN 2082100898
• Les Remontrances de Malesherbes (1771–1775), 1985,
• L'Un est l'autre, 1986, ISBN 2738113648
• Cahiers Suzanne Lilar
  Suzanne Lilar
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  , pp. 15–26, Paris, Gallimard, 1986, ISBN 2-07-0700632-X
• Condorcet. Un intellectuel en politique, 1988,
• , 1988,
• Madame d'Épinay, Histoire de Madame de Montbrillant ou les Contreconfessions, foreword by d'Élisabeth Badinter, 1989,
• Thomas
  Antoine Léonard Thomas
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  , Diderot, Madame d'Épinay
  Louise d'Epinay
  Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles d'Épinay was a French writer, a saloniste and woman of fashion, known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who gives malicious reports of her in his Confessions...
  
   : Qu'est-ce qu'une femme ?, foreword by Élisabeth Badinter, 1989
• Condorcet, Prudhomme, Guyomar : Paroles d'hommes (1790–1793), Élisabeth Badinter, 1989,
• XY, de l'identité masculine, 1992, ISBN 2253097837
• Madame du Châtelet, Discours sur le bonheur, foreword, 1997
• Les Passions intellectuelles, tome 1 : Désirs de gloire (1735–1751), 1999,
• Les Passions intellectuelles, tome 2 : L'exigence de dignité (1751–1762), 2002, |year=2007 |isbn=9782213626437}}
• Simone de Beauvoir
  Simone de Beauvoir
  Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, often shortened to Simone de Beauvoir , was a French existentialist philosopher, public intellectual, and social theorist. She wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography in several volumes, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and...
  
  , Marguerite Yourcenar
  Marguerite Yourcenar
  Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3.-Biography:Yourcenar was born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie...
  
  , Nathalie Sarraute
  Nathalie Sarraute
  Nathalie Sarraute was a French lawyer and writer of Russian Jewish origin.-Life:Sarraute was born Natalia/Natacha Tcherniak in Ivanovo , 300 km north-east of Moscow in 1900 , and, following...
  
  , 2002. Conference Élizabeth Badinter, Jacques Lassalle and Lucette Finas, ISBN 2717722203
• Fausse route, 2003, ISBN 225311264X
• Dead End Feminism, 2006, ISBN 0745633803
• Madame du Châtelet, Madame d'Épinay : Ou l'Ambition féminine au XVIIIe siècle, 2006, ISBN 2082105636
• Le conflit, la femme et la mère, 2010.

External links

• "Elisabeth Badinter distorts feminism the better to fight it", isyphe.rog, Elaine Audet, 1er octobre 2003
• Steven Erlanger and Maïa de la Baume, "In Defense of the Imperfect Mother", New York Times, June 6, 2010.