Glossary
You will find in this page all the words which can pose a problem or for which it can be interessant to have a definition or complementary information.
- Organization for Women’s rights (proper noun)
- Created on 16 April 1870 by Leon Richter. It fights for the improvement of women’s situation. In 1882, it became the french league for women's rights.
- #Balancetonporc (hashtag)
- Social movement which gives speaking to victims or witnesses of rapes or sexual assaults. It was created in 2017.
- MMI BUT (proper noun)
- Educational establishment of 3 years which prepares web’s jobs.
- Ces hommes qui épousèrent la cause des femmes (proper noun)
- Novel by Martine Monacelli and Michel Prum which speaks about feminist men in Great Britain during the XIX century.
- Civil code (proper noun)
- Legal code which assembles laws about people’s positions, property and relation between private people.
- International Congress of Women’s rights (proper noun)
- Feminist meeting which has taken place on 25 July to 9 August 1878 in Paris.
- Declaration of woman’s and citizen’s rights (proper noun)
- French legal text written by Olympe de Gouges to demand legal, politic, social integration for women.
- De l'assujettissement des femmes (proper noun)
- Literary essay by John Stuart Mill published in 1869 and in which he brings his ideas of equality between men and women and right vote developed with his wife.
- De l’éducation des femmes (proper noun)
- Book by Pierre de Choderlos de Laclos written in 1783 which speaks about the fate reserved by our society for women.
- De l’égalité des deux sexes (proper noun)
- Physical and moral speech dated 1673 which mentions and defends equality between men and women.
- Emancipation (noun)
- Action to liberate or to liberate himself about an authority or prejudice.
- Harvard’s university (proper noun)
- American private University situated in Cambridge which was founded in 1636. She is considered one of the most prestigious institutions in the world.
- Feminism (noun)
- Ensemble of movements and philosophic ideas which defines and promotes equality between men and women and women’s rights.
- Women’s walking (proper noun)
- Political meeting in Washington on 21 January 2017 to promote among others women’s rights.
- Le deuxième sexe (proper noun)
- Feminist essay by Simone de Beauvoir written in 1949. It interests itself about women’s place and her cause with an objective and philosophic gaze.
- Law for professional equality (proper noun)
- Law of the 13 July 1983 which modifies the labour code and the penal code to add professional equality between men and women.
- Abortion (noun)
- abortion made because of personal or familial choice and not because of medical reasons. It is made in a very precise legal setting.
- Veil Law (proper noun)
- Law of the 17 January 1975 which legalizes abortion.
- Movement of women’s liberation (proper noun)
- Feminist and not mixed movement which claim liberty for women to have available about their body and which question partiarchal society.
- Constitution’s preamble (proper noun)
- Ensemble of fundamental rights and liberties which appeared necessary to add in the Declaration of Man and citizen’s rights in the end of the Second World War.
- Martine Monacelli (proper noun)
- She is a teacher of British civilization in the Nice-Sophia Antipolis University in Nice.
- #metoo (hashtag)
- Social movement to liberate speaking of women victims and witness of sexual violence. It started in 2007 and has been particularly famous in 2017.
- State’s secretarial work for the women’s status (proper noun)
- Created in France in 1974 by Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. It is charged to take measures to improve women’s situation and suppress discrimination.
- Shoah (proper noun)
- Systematic extermination process on the jewish people by the Nazi Germany during the Second World War. It has prompted the disappearance of 5-6 millions jews.
- Sociology (proper noun)
- Study and analysis of relations and social representations in our society, specially across her transformations.
- The Oprah Winfrey Show (proper noun)
- American talk show presented and produced by Oprah Winfrey. It is interested itself about world’s actualities and issues.