Professor emeritus of contemporary history at Paris-Diderot University, Michelle Perrot is an internationally-renowned historian and pioneer of women's and gender history. With Georges Duby, she edited L'Histoire des Femmes en Occident, de l'Antiquité à nos jours ("The History of Women in the West, from Antiquity to the Present," five volumes), and has written Le Chemin des Femmes ("The Way of Women"), Le Temps des Féminismes ("The Time of Feminisms," with Eduardo Castillo) and S'Engager en Historienne ("Engaging as a Historian").

Does Donald Trump's second term as US president mark a moment of regression for women in the West?

Political masculinism is a reaction to the new age of women's emancipation, a virilist response to the #MeToo movement. Faced with the liberation of the word on sexual and sexist violence, but also faced with women's assertion of wanting to live their love, sex and sometimes even professional lives fully and sovereignly, some men find in Donald Trump a figure of resistance to the old order. Some of the American president's supporters, misogynist and conspiracy-mongering influencers, even go so far as to turn the feminist slogan, "My body, my choice" on its head with "Your body, my choice."

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