I Wrote a Book About a Woman Who Fought ...

For the past two years, I’ve been writing The Mademoiselle Alliance, a book about a woman named Marie-Madeleine Fourcarde who fought against a collaborationist French government that declared abortion to be treasonous, and thus punishable by death. A government that made it illegal for women to work in the public sector. A government that reintroduced laws that prohibited women from having control over the money they earned. A government that made divorce laws more restrictive for women. She als...