Bridges to Feminism: Marcelle Auclair, Marcelle Ségal, and Women's Magazines in Twentieth-Century France

While most people who have waited in grocery or newsstand checkout lines today will recognize the magazines Elle and Marie-Claire, few know that two journalists, Marcelle Auclair and Marcelle Ségal, were critical to the success of these magazines when they began publication in France.True celebrities of the postwar decades, they wielded greater influence on French society than Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Lacans, or Michel Foucault.Through their columns and their appearances on radio and television, Auclair and Ségal became familiar figures in everyday life.Bridges to Feminism is a dual biography of these trailblazing French journalists--Marcelle Auclair of Marie-Claire and Marcelle Ségal of Elle--who helped reshape how women saw themselves in postwar France.Through their writing, they built powerful connections with readers, offering advice, empathy, and a vision of womanhood that defied convention.Their lives vividly distill the tumult of the twentieth century and its impact on women: w