Éditions des Femmes

Éditions des Femmes grew out of the international women in print movement, an effort by second-wave feminists to create autonomous communications networks created by and for women. The statutes of the SARL Women (a company composed of 21 members in equal parts) were filed in December 1972. The first manager was Yvonne Boissarie. Marie-Claude Grumbach (December 11, 1940 - 1 May 2001) succeeded Boissarie in June 1974. In 1979, shares were sold in favor of members Fouque, Sylvina Boissonnas and Marie-Claude Grumbach, which "represents a significant change; the equality that was the basis of the LLC is broken.".

The first bookstore "Women" was inaugurated in Paris on May 30, 1974 at 68 rue des Saints-Pères which transferred to rue de Seine in 1981, where it includes an art gallery hosted by Marie Dedieu, which exhibits artists such as Sonia Delaunay, Milvia Maglione Françoise Martinelli, Kate Millett, Michele Knoblauch, Sophie Clavel, Tina Modotti, Claude Batho, Ilse Bing, Louise Nevelson, June Wayne, Popy Moreni, Mary Orensanz, Colette Alvarez-Urbajtel This bookshop-gallery closed in 1999, and reopened in rue Jacob, accompanied by a "women's space".

In 1976, a women's bookstore was opened in Marseille, and another in Lyon in 1977, but closed thereafter.