Thank you for this discussion. It’s interesting the different paths that feminism takes in different cultures and the varying rates of change. Needed a permit to wear pants in Paris a hundred years ago? When I started college outside Boston in the early 1960’s we weren’t allowed to wear pants at all, except on designated snow days.
Absolutely not immediately after the war in 1919 the French society to free itself from its corset parallel to the emancipation movement in Great Britain led by the suffragettes, women did not need to ask permission to wear trousers. And although this law has existed for quite a long time since Napoleon and it seems to me until the 1970s it was not applied. In the aftermath of the First World War, the Garçonnes movement then the women attached to the artistic movement of surrealism could easily wear what they wanted, such as playing sports. Perhaps by questioning a woman from the middle class and not from the CSP + categories, the portrait of the evolution of feminism in France and of the condition of minority women to be emancipated would be traced in all its authenticity.
This was really interesting - thanks for offering time with Rachel!
glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for this discussion. It’s interesting the different paths that feminism takes in different cultures and the varying rates of change. Needed a permit to wear pants in Paris a hundred years ago? When I started college outside Boston in the early 1960’s we weren’t allowed to wear pants at all, except on designated snow days.
Absolutely not immediately after the war in 1919 the French society to free itself from its corset parallel to the emancipation movement in Great Britain led by the suffragettes, women did not need to ask permission to wear trousers.
And although this law has existed for quite a long time since Napoleon and it seems to me until the 1970s it was not applied.
In the aftermath of the First World War, the Garçonnes movement then the women attached to the artistic movement of surrealism could easily wear what they wanted, such as playing sports.
Perhaps by questioning a woman from the middle class and not from the CSP + categories, the portrait of the evolution of feminism in France and of the condition of minority women to be emancipated would be traced in all its authenticity.