REACTION. “Emmanuel Todd could have been an ally,” regrets the “ecofeminist” activist, reacting to the anthropologist’s latest book, devoted to women.
By Sandrine Rousseau
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“Where are they? asks Emmanuel Todd in his latest book, subtitled “A sketch of the history of women” (Seuil). The anthropologist and historian traces the thread of women’s emancipation in the West and analyzes its possible impact on society, deindustrialization or even the rise of individualism. Intrigued – “annoyed”, he admits himself – by the rise of what he calls an American-style “antagonistic feminism”, he seeks to answer the following question: how is it that in France, are relations between men and women threatening to tip over into a war of the sexes today? Something to titillate some feminist souls… We had Emmanuel Todd’s work read, with sometimes daring theses, to women…
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