The Image of the White Woman

The image of white women in France and around the world is a thorny subject and an unprecedented theme that has never really been treated as a whole before.

Throughout this book, the author strives to be as methodical as possible in order to convey information and facts and obtain a fuller picture of our time. To do this, Joseph Lagrange relied on numerous books, documents and testimonies.

He explains how, from antiquity to the present day, the image of white women was created and evolved.

The history of the world is the meeting of peoples, ethnicities and different civilizations which have alternated periods of war and peace. This is why, to deal with the image of white women, it is also to deal with the image of other women, such as black, Arab or Asian women. It is therefore a question to address what brings these women closer to each other, but also what distinguishes them, individualizes them in a global manner.