 In 1919 Magdeleine Marx wrote an article in "La Voix des femmes" in which she argued that women had only themselves to blame for their inferior position, since they had not done anything to stop the war, had not suffered from the war and ignored the sacrifice the men had made.This drew a sharp response from Nelly Roussel, who listed all the ways in which women had suffered from a war that they had no part in starting.Magdeleine Marx's novel "Femme" was published in Paris in 1919.