of women in France have changed throughout history. In 1944, French women obtained women's suffrage. As in other Western countries, the role of women underwent...

debated how women shared in the French Revolution and what impact it had on French women. Women had no political rights in pre-Revolutionary France; they were...

root of the upheaval in Algeria that caused these women immigrants to give up their old way of life in search of a better one in France. The impact that the...

southern France, plundered its religious houses and took captive both men and women, clerical and lay, as slaves. In 842, the Annales report a raid in the...

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas...

in December 1979. Since 1982, much of the costs of abortions are taken in charge by the French social security system, which allows women in France to...

U.S. soldiers committed rape against French women during and after the liberation of France in the later stages of World War II. The sociologist J. Robert...

following the May 1968 events in France. Political goals included the guarantee of increased bodily autonomy for women via increased access to abortion...

'secularism') is the constitutional principle of secularism in France. Article 1 of the French Constitution is commonly interpreted as the separation of...

was a French colony, French Algeria, between 1830 and 1962. In the 19th century, Algerian women lived in gender segregation in harem. The French did very...