English summary: How did women lose the power to govern in France? Why did Calvin apologize to Queen Elizabeth I of England when she acceded to the throne? What collective roles did women play in the English Revolutions of the 17th century and in the 18th-century American, French, Liegois, Brabant and Dutch revolutions? What forms of resistance did women slaves employ in the slave trade? How did Utopists and Marxists view the emancipation of women? When was the concept of "feminism" introduced? How has its meaning evolved since then? When and how did women obtain the right to vote in European countries, in North America and in Latin America? Did you know that women have been proponents of Nazism, Italian Fascism, the French collaboration, Francoism, and Portuguese Salazarism? What often underrated action was taken by female resistance fighters under these totalitarian regimes? Were the 1871 Paris Commune, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and the German Revolution of 1918 events which heralded social and political progress for women? What did "liberty and equality" represent for women experiencing the reality of life in Communist countries? Who were Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg and Alexandra Kollontai? What changed for women as a result of the First and Second World Wars? What is the extent of women's political success in Nordic countries? Why is abortion banned in Poland, a Member-State of the European Union? What methods have women used to oppose military dictatorship in Latin America? How did the women's liberation movement of the 1970s cross the Atlantic? How did international organizations managed to realize their ideology of gender equality? French description: Comment les femmes ont-elles perdu en France le pouvoir de gouverner? Pourquoi Calvin s'est-il excuse aupres de la reine d'Angleterre Elisabeth Ire lorsqu'elle acceda au trone? Comment les femmes ont-elles participe collectivement aux Revolutions anglaises du XVIIe siecle, americaine, francaise, liegeoise et brabanconne, neerlandaises du XVIIIe siecle? Quelles ont ete les formes de resistance des femmes esclaves dans la traite negriere? Comment les utopistes et les marxistes ont-ils concu l'emancipation des femmes? Quand le feminisme est-il ne? Comment a-t-il evolue? Quand et comment les femmes ont-elles obtenu le droit de vote dans les Etats europeens, en Amerique du Nord, en Amerique latine? Savez-vous que des femmes s'enrolerent dans le nazisme, le fascisme italien, la collaboration francaise, le franquisme, le salazarisme portugais? Quelle fut l'action souvent meconnue des resistantes a ces regimes totalitaires? La Commune de Paris de 1871, les Revolutions russes de 1905 et 1917, la Revolution allemande de 1918 ont-elles marque des avancees sociales et politiques pour les femmes? Quelles ont ete la liberte et l'egalite pour les femmes dans les pays du communisme reel? Qui etaient Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg et Alexandra Kollontai? Qu'est-ce que les deux guerres Guerres mondiales ont change pour les femmes? Quelle est l'etendue du succes politique des femmes dans les pays nordiques? Pourquoi l'avortement est-il interdit en Pologne, membre de l'Union europeenne? Comment des femmes ont-elles combattu les dictatures militaires d'Amerique latine? Comment les mouvements de liberation des femmes des annees 1970 ont-ils traverse l'Atlantique? Comment les organisations internationales ont-elles construit, idealement, l'egalite entre femmes et hommes?