In the 1970s, studies on women's history gained prominence, offering a way of interpreting the past in which women were no longer seen as passive objects, but as conscious and active subjects. Therefore, it was necessary to rewrite their history, to develop a narrative that engaged in dialogue and interaction with general history in order to include them more fully and authentically within it. This is, then, a history of women, but one that also encompasses and affects men, and examines how relations between the sexes have been constructed at different points in history, both in social and political spheres as well as in private ones. From a universal and global perspective, the book addresses the cultural and historical nature of differences and inequalities, and analyzes the influence of social and political changes on women, but also their influence on these changes: were they able to actively participate in the course of history?