"One is not born, but rather become a women. No biological, psychological or economic fate determines the figure that the being presents is society: it is civilization as a while that produces this creature indeterminate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine." - The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir (1949)

As the above statement states, the status of women is determined by the civilization itself. To investigate how the status of women has changed overtime I have decided to look into the development of feminism in the French cinema French feminist Film Industry in 1920s One of the notable female film directors in the 1920s is Germaine Dulac. Born to a cultured environment with intelligent and sophisticated parents who have lively appreciation of arts, Dulac later started a career in journalism and worked on editorial of La Fronde, a radical feminist journal...