Press cartoonists have often seized on the issue of women to denounce, with humour, the inequalities and injusticies of which women are currently victim all around the world. After the preface wrote by Elisabeth Badinter, elder stateswoman of feminism, a 60 strong selection of cartoons establishes a picture of the many problems that women encounter in terms of education, sexuality, work or religion.
Elisabeth Badinter has a higher degree in philosophy. Specialist of the Age of Enlightment, she pays a particular attention to the evolutions of customs and mindsets. Committed to the feminist cause, she is the author of many books, such as the recent Le Pouvoir au féminin, Marie-Thérèse d’Autriche, 1717-1780 (Flammarion, 2016).
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