With her usual erudition and humor, historian Mathilde Larrère looks back on three centuries of an old struggle: fighting for women's emancipation.

Rage Against the Machismo retraces the feminist struggle from the French Revolution to the no-bra movements, combining stories, documents, songs, slogans, and powerful quotes reflecting the fervor and determination of those who refuse to accept gender inequality. Larrère invokes such icons as Louise Michel and Gisèle Halimi, but also those who fought in their wake (Hubertine Auclert, Madeleine Pelletier, Pauline Léon, and more). From universal suffrage, civil rights, access to education, bodily autonomy, sexual violence, and the armed forces, Larrère addresses areas where women’s freedom has been violated, as well as the many rights still to be won and protected for today and the future.