Read more  Reserved for subscribersINTERVIEW – The graduate of the École Normale Supérieure and doctor of political science is the author of Féminicène (Fayard) and coordinated the collective work La Souveraineté, l'Europe et le Peuple (Michalon, in homage to the sovereignist intellectual Coralie Delaume). Two important and complementary essays which each in their own way explore the crises to come and their repercussions, in particular on the emancipation of women. LE FIGARO. – The thesis of your book is provocative. You postulate that women owe the evolution of their status, not to feminist struggles, but to technical and medical progress as well as to general enrichment. What allows you to assert this? Véra NIKOLSKI. – If the thesis seems provocative, it is because we have become accustomed to considering, as the dominant narrative invites us to do, that the emancipation of women would be due to feminist struggles, rights being “wrested” from men at the end of a confrontation. However, until the beginning of the 92th century, demands for equality remained very much in the minority, the preserve of a few – courageous – isolated figures, and were reduced to “symbolic agitation”, to use Simone de Beauvoir’s phrase. It is difficult to see what interest the dominant – in this case, men – had in giving up entire sections of their privileges in the face of such low-intensity protest. Everything becomes clear if we remember… This article is reserved for subscribers. You have XNUMX% left to discover. 

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