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Gisèle Halimi (born Zeiza Gisèle Élise Taïeb; 27 July 1927 – 28 July 2020) was a Tunisian-French lawyer, politician, essayist and feminist activist.[1]
Biography
Zeiza Gisèle Élise Taïeb was born in La Goulette, Tunisia, on 27 July 1927 to a modest, practicing Jewish Berber family. Her father, Edouard Taïeb, began as a courier in a law office before becoming a notary clerk, then a legal expert. He was naturalized as a French citizen in 1928.[2] Her mother, Fortunée "Fritna" Mettoudi, conformed to society's expectations of traditional womanhood such that Gisèle describes her as the reason for her own early feminist engagement.[3]
When Gisèle was born, her parents hid her birth for three weeks, as, at the time, giving birth to a daughter was perceived as a curse.[4] At 12 years old, she refuses to serve her brothers and goes on a hunger strike to protest gender roles enforced by her family. At 15, she refuses to marry a rich oil merchant much older than her.[5]
Gisèle was educated at a French lycée in Tunis, and then attended the University of Paris, graduating in law and philosophy. She is the mother of three sons: Serge, a journalist, and Jean-Yves, a lawyer, were born from her first marriage with Paul Halimi. Her youngest son, Emmanuel Faux, born from a second marriage with Claude Faux,[6] was a journalist.
She died the day following her 93rd birthday, on 28 July 2020.[7]
Career
In 1948, Halimi qualified as a lawyer and, after eight years at the Tunisbar,[8] moved to practise at the Paris bar in 1956.[8] She acted as a counsel for the Algerian National Liberation Front, most notably for the activist Djamila Boupacha in 1960, who had been raped and tortured by French soldiers,[8] and wrote a book in 1961 (with an introduction by Simone de Beauvoir) to plead her case.[8] She also defended Basque individuals accused of crimes committed during the conflict in Basque Country, and was counsel in many cases related to women's issues,[8] such as the 1972 Bobignyabortion trial (of a 17-year-old accused of procuring an abortion after having been raped),[8] which attracted national attention.
In 1971, she founded the feminist group Choisir (transl. To Choose)[9] to protect the women who had signed the Manifesto of the 343 admitting to having illegal abortions, of which she was one.[8][10]
In 1972, Choisir formed itself into a clearly reformist body, and the campaign greatly influenced the passing of the law allowing contraception and abortion carried through by Simone Veil in 1974.[citation needed]
General Paul Aussaresses, The Battle of the Casbah: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Algeria, 1955-1957. (New York: Enigma Books, 2010) ISBN9781929631308.
Natalie Edwards, The Autobiographies of Julia Kristeva, Gisèle Halimi, Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous : beyond "I" versus "we". (Chicago: Northwestern University, 2005) ISBN0542173042.
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