Women or the silences of history.

Are women making noise today? It's in light of the silence in which society has kept them for centuries. The silence of military or technical exploits, the silence of books and images, and above all the silence of the historical narrative that the historian rightly questions. For behind the walls of convents or bourgeois homes, in the intimacy of their journals or their distracted confidences, in the murmurs of the workshop or the market, in the interstices of a public space gradually taken over, women have acted, lived, suffered, and worked to change their destinies. Who better than Michelle Perrot to show us this? A historian of workers' strikes, the world of work, and prisons, Michelle Perrot became interested in the history of women from a very early age. She followed them throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, tracking down the silences of history and the moments when they dissipated. These are some of these stages that this book recounts for us.