[1][2] She helped author Le Dictionnaire universel des créatrices (2013), a biographical dictionary about creative women.
Her mother, of Italian origin, emigrated from Calabria to France for economic reasons and settled in a popular district of Marseille.
In the 1960s, she enrolled at the EPHE for a thesis on literary avant-gardes, which she abandoned preferring her activism alongside women, but passed a "DEA with Roland Barthes".
[6][7][8] Appalled by the sexism surrounding the intellectual and activist environments at the time of May 1968,[3][9][10] Fouque became active with Wittig and Josiane Chanel in one of the early women's groups which gathered together in 1970 to form the mouvement de libération des femmes (MLF), a movement consisting of multiple groups throughout France without any formal leadership.
[11] Fouque herself denied being feminist, and rejected Simone de Beauvoir's existentialism in favour of structuralism and libertarian Marxism.
[12] In 1974, she helped found "Éditions des femmes", funded by Sylvina Boissonnas, "an heiress of the Schlumberger family", which printed works for the feminist movement.
According to the psychoanalyst Martine Ménès, Lacan was interested in the debates of the MLF but rejected Fouque's notion of libido.
The bookshop activities were reborn with an "Espace des femmes" center dedicated to the creations of women, with a gallery and the organization of meetings and debates in Paris.
[30] A doctor of political science, Antoinette Fouque was director of research at Paris 8 University from 1994, and a member of the Observatory of Gender Equality from 2002.
Antoinette Fouque ran for the European elections of 1994 on the list Énergie radicale (Radical Energy) led by Bernard Tapie.
A radical left-wing member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999, she joined the PES Group and sits on the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Civil Liberties and Women's Rights (Vice-President) In 2007, she called for a vote for Ségolène Royal, in a text published in Le Nouvel Observateur, "against a right wing of arrogance", for "a left of hope".