In this ambitious work, Karen rescues offen the history of the struggles that rid of European women (and also men) against male domination. Throughout a journey of 250 years - from the illustration to the atomic era, the author is marked several objectives. For less specialized readers and for those who are interested above in the historical chronicle, it offers a comparative study of great encouragement on feminist developments in the different European societies, as well as a rereading of European history from a feminist perspective.

On another level, by offering a broad and precise historical analysis, the book aims to unravel some misperceptions and throw light on some confusing contemporary debates on illustration, nature, equality against difference, and the public in front of The private The author raises that historical feminisms have much more than offering us that mere logical paradoxes and contradictions, who have much more than to do with sexual policy than with philosophy. Feminist victories are not related, in a strict sense, with wicking the right reasons, nor gender is only "a useful category of analysis"; The sexual difference is at the very heart of thought and human politics.