50 years of the MLF: "It's a women's liberation movement, not just emancipation"

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By: Clémentine Pawlotsky

From the legalization of abortion to the fight against harassment, many advances for women have taken place since the creation of the Women's Liberation Movement (MLF), which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this Wednesday. Christine Bard, specialist in the history of women and gender, professor of contemporary history at the University of Angers, decrypts this movement for RFI.

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Christine Bard has published Feminisms: 150 years of received ideas , published by Le Cavalier bleu and edited the collective work Antifeminisms and masculinisms from yesterday to today , at the PUF.

She recalls that the history of the MLF begins on August 26, 1970, when nine women tried to lay a wreath for the wife of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, before being arrested by the police. Fifty years after its founding, young feminists recognize the heritage of the movement without knowing it in detail, which raises issues of transmission and memory of the history of feminism.

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• Womens rights
• French politics

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