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This article examines gender relations in mobilizations for the Armenian cause in France during the years around 1968, several decades after the original arrival of Armenian migrants in France, following the 1915 genocide in the Ottoman Empire. While feminism, which had emerged in the homeland at the late nineteenth century, certainly found support from Armenian women in the public arena in 1970s France, they make no reference to it in their defense of the Armenian question, to which they were committed. The article concludes that there are similarities with other contemporary forms of protest: a gendered division of labour, and the refusal to see these divisions, but also the emancipatory dimension of activism. It shows, as well, that since the genocide had been marked by gendered forms of violence, women were responsible for rebuilding the community; as a result, gender relations among Armenians were not shaped exclusively along contested gender frontiers.