Images de femmes libres

Abstract

We will analyze the relationships between images and emancipatory practices by focusing on political imagination, transforming the boundaries between the thinkable and the unthinkable, the real and the unreal. By first discussing the interpretation of Olympe de Gouges proposed by Joan Scott, it is proposed to examine when the political imagination becomes a barrier, more than a support, for the transformation of ideas and practices. The essential condition is a collective practice of freedom. In this perspective, we will explore the symbolic creations of a group of women related to Saint- Simonism, who collaborated with the magazine La femme libre published between 1832 and 1834.