The author of the bestselling Rage Against the Machismo continues exploring feminist history since the French Revolution by turning to material culture, focusing on twenty everyday objects symbolic of struggle and emancipation. Musket, checkbook, hanger, bike pump, crinoline, sewing machine: all tell stories of hard-won social, physical, sartorial, and workplace freedoms, signs of the courage, self-organisation, and creativity of women who, relegated to their wardrobes, fought with the weapons they found there.
Mathilde Larrère's combative style is once more paired with Fred Sochard’s drawings in a lively story of eras and struggles buttressed by numerous period speeches, songs, and quotes.