<I will confine myself to these 3 quotations because it would require a whole day the cite only the names of all thinkers, in all civilizations who conveyed the same ideas and prejudices (<Platon>, <Nietzsche>...)>

<And when psychiatry and psychoanalysys appeared, then came <Freud>, a man of genius bit a stone-block on the parth of <wmn>'s emancipation. He too, in a much more subtle and dangerous way, conveyed the same principle than can be summarized very schematically of course, in one of his most famous quotation:

<"Woman is a castrated male. Feminine ambition is only a neurosis meant to compensate the tragedy of being born a mwn. Her normal destiny is subservience and resignation to her fate.">

The way the 2nd sex was considered throughout the centuries, parctically no one, until this century stood up against their theories, is enough to explain why "WOMEN'S PLACE IN SOCIETY" is still today a subject to debate.

The place of man in society cannot be discussed or questioned: He is SOCIETY. Our part in it is, in most cases, their choice, and our status can be modified any time, in any country, not as citizens but as women, depending on religion, the <econom.>or <demofr.> situation, or any other accident.

To speak of French femne lit., and of femne lit in gal is to tell the story of a long struggle to emerge from an imposed silence