Amazones d'Hier, Lesbiennes d'Aujourd'hui (AHLA) (Amazons of Yesterday, Lesbians of Today) is the name of a quarterly French language

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 magazine published starting 1982 by a lesbian

Lesbian

Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...

 collective

Collective

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 in Montreal

Montreal

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, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

 made of Louise Turcotte, Danielle Charest, Genette Bergeron and Ariane Brunet..

AHLA was written from a radical lesbian (Lesbiennes radicales) perspective, and aimed to offer analysis and reflection about political and philosophical issues affecting lesbians globally as well as in Quebec

Quebec

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The magazine's content drew heavily from francophone

Francophone

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 material feminism

Material feminism

Material feminism examines the "material conditions under which social arrangements, including those of gender hierarchy, develop" It argues that "material conditions of all sorts play a vital role in the social production of gender"....

, and the ideas of French

France

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 theorists Monique Wittig

Monique Wittig

Monique Wittig was a French author and feminist theorist who wrote about overcoming socially enforced gender roles and who coined the phrase "heterosexual contract". She published her first novel, L'Opoponax, in 1964...

 and Nicole-Claude Mathieu. The front page of every issue clearly stated that the magazine was intended "for lesbians only".

Documentary: Amazones d'Hier, Lesbiennes d'Aujourd'hui

A similar titled documentary film

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was developed from 1979 to 1981, and premiered on June 13, 1982 in Montreal.