This book recounts the fight for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom and the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.It gives a panorama of a complex movement in which "the pen and the voice" were key weapons.

This volume provides the French translation of the Grimké sisters' writings published during the short period of their active involvement in the cause of abolitionism (1834-1838. She had a decisive impact on the upsurge of the first wave of American feminism.

Mary Wollstonecraft: the Beginnings of political and social Feminism is aimed at a non-specialized French readership. It offers a synthesis of the thought of Wollstonecraft, who is widely regarded as the "mother of Anglo-American feminism" as well as translated excerpts from her works.

J.S. Mill's thought has been available to French readers since the 19th century and the Subjection of Women, his book on women’s position in society was translated and published as well. Yet the rest of his writings on women is less known which is why this book contains selected writings on women ranging.