In this short clip, Liza Frulla talks about how the contraceptive pill represented the ultimate method of liberation for women.
This video is a clip from 75e, elles se souviennent.
La pilule, ç’a été le moyen ultime de la libération de la femme — ultime — parce que, en mille-neuf-cent-soixante-quatre (1964), on peut se signer un bail, on peut ouvrir un compte de banque, on n’a pas besoin d’être cosignée par son père ou son mari, mais on n’a pas l’ultime contrôle de son corps.
The (contraceptive) pill was the ultimate method of liberation for women — the ultimate — because, in nineteen-sixty-four (1964), (a woman) could sign her own lease, (a woman) could open a bank account, (a woman) didn’t need her father or husband as a co-signer, but (a woman still) didn’t have the ultimate form of control over her body.
un bail, lease (can refer, for example, to the lease you sign to rent an apartment)
signer un bail, to sign a lease
cosigner un bail, to co-sign a lease (as a guarantor)
un compte de banque, bank account
ouvrir un compte de banque, to open a bank account
This video can also be found in the Listen to Québécois French section of OffQc.
