Long before feminism became a significant social movement, with philosophical baggage, clear objectives and media recognition, ideas about the need to improve women's lives and educational and working conditions had to face their own wilderness journey. Denied by society, without much support among their male colleagues and reviled by many women who considered it too subversive, feminist thought (which was not always recognised as such) sharpened its weapons over several centuries, allied with other intellectual movements: the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the abolition of slavery or socialism.
ISBN: 9788412471649