The book consists of six series of photographs by Martine Franck, presented in chronological order. These sequences are preceded by a short text that provides the historical context and sheds light on the significance of the images for the feminist movement. “1970: Year Zero of Women’s Liberation” describes the emergence of an autonomous feminist movement in the wake of May 1968. “ “Let’s Look at Ourselves” emphasizes the movement’s struggle with the image: refusing from then on to be the object of the male gaze in order to see and assert themselves as women. “The Fair Is Us!” chronicles the movement’s spectacular and festive actions, such as the disruption of the “États généraux de la femme,” organized by *Elle* magazine. “Imprimer les luttes” follows, in particular, the production—carried out exclusively by women—of issue No. 0 of the MLF’s magazine, *Le Torchon brûle*. The final two chapters are devoted to the transformations of the women’s press and to several individual and collective trajectories.
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