ABSTRACT
After pursuing studies in sociology and psychology, Badinter turned to history, which she has taught in a number of Paris’s tertiary educational institutions. In the 1980s and 1990s, she has published works dealing with gender and sexual/political issues. These include The Myth of Motherhood: An Historical View of the Maternal Instinct (L’Amour en plus: histoire de l’amour maternel XVIIeXXe siècle), Man/Woman: The One is the Other (L’Un est l’autre), Qu’est-ce qu’une femme? (What is a Woman?), and XY: On Masculine Identity (XY, de l’identité masculine). She has also written biographical historical works.
