The 'feminine world' is sometimes contrasted with the masculine universe, but it must be reiterated that women have never formed an autonomous and closed society; they are integrated into the group governed by males, where they occupy a subordinate position; they are united by a mechanical solidarity only insofar as they are similar: they do not share that organic solidarity upon which any unified community is founded; they have always endeavored in the period of the Eleusinian mysteries just like today in clubs, salons, and recreation rooms to band together to assert a 'counter universe,' but it is still within the masculine universe that they frame it.