How did revolutions affect gender roles
How did revolutions affect gender roles?
The impact of women in revolutions has had a great effect on many world societies. During the French revolution women took many roles including marching protest and writing against the monarchy. Most of them became very vocal during the revolution whiles others had a posthumous recognition about how women expressed their experiences in private life and family affairs during the decades of the revolution.
The involvement of women in the revolution may be considered as a volatile political force to the success of the revolution. On October 5, 1789 about 7,000 angry women mob marched on Versailles to protest against the monarchy about the scarcity of bread. These militant women were armed with pitch forks, pipes and muskets. They took turns on the queen Marie Antoinette who had shown a recalcitrant attitude against their demand for bread. But the queen managed to escape into the apartment of Louis XVI. The protest was too fierce that about 20,000 French National Guardsmen could not stop them. Undoubtedly, it was this march that forced the monarchy at Versailles to relocate to Paris.
Many women became very vocal during the French revolution. Olympe de Gouge (1748 - 1793) perhaps became one of the outstanding and outspoken women during the revolution. She was a play writer whose writings focused on gender roles and equality between men and women. She wrote the “Declaration of the rights of woman and female citizen” in 1791 to elevate the status of women to have a full right just like the men. Her writings influenced the revolution even though she was charged with treason and guillotined in 1793. Her proposition on voluntary taxation was adopted by the National Council early in the revolution in 1789.
Rosalie Ducrollay Jullien (1745 - 1824) is another woman who described her experiences during the period of the revolution. The bourgeois Parisian wrote over 800 private correspondent letters in which she shares her private life
The impact of women in revolutions has had a great effect on many world societies. During the French revolution women took many roles including marching protest and writing against the monarchy. Most of them became very vocal during the revolution whiles others had a posthumous recognition about how women expressed their experiences in private life and family affairs during the decades of the revolution.
The involvement of women in the revolution may be considered as a volatile political force to the success of the revolution. On October 5, 1789 about 7,000 angry women mob marched on Versailles to protest against the monarchy about the scarcity of bread. These militant women were armed with pitch forks, pipes and muskets. They took turns on the queen Marie Antoinette who had shown a recalcitrant attitude against their demand for bread. But the queen managed to escape into the apartment of Louis XVI. The protest was too fierce that about 20,000 French National Guardsmen could not stop them. Undoubtedly, it was this march that forced the monarchy at Versailles to relocate to Paris.
Many women became very vocal during the French revolution. Olympe de Gouge (1748 - 1793) perhaps became one of the outstanding and outspoken women during the revolution. She was a play writer whose writings focused on gender roles and equality between men and women. She wrote the “Declaration of the rights of woman and female citizen” in 1791 to elevate the status of women to have a full right just like the men. Her writings influenced the revolution even though she was charged with treason and guillotined in 1793. Her proposition on voluntary taxation was adopted by the National Council early in the revolution in 1789.
Rosalie Ducrollay Jullien (1745 - 1824) is another woman who described her experiences during the period of the revolution. The bourgeois Parisian wrote over 800 private correspondent letters in which she shares her private life