was undergoing reforms‚ Olympe de Gouges‚ Mary Wollstonecraft‚ and Judith Sargent Murray recognized an opportunity to push for other reforms: reforms for women’s rights*.
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” The Declarations of the Rights of Women” is a declaration written by Marie Gouze under the pseudonym Olympe de Gouges. This declaration was her attempt to disseminate a list of Rights for women that mirrored the Rights men had in France under the rule of Marie Antoinette. Gouze was heavily influenced by Enlightenment principals‚ and it is very evident in her writings. Firstly‚ Gouze was the self-taught daughter of a simple middle-class butcher. This was one major theme of the Enlightenment; the
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attention to women‚ but more to the revolutionary men. After all‚ most history books only mention the King‚ the soldiers‚ the condemned‚ and perhaps the Queen. But where are the mothers‚ daughters‚ sisters and wives? Even with characters such as Olympe de Gouges‚ (who was in fact a woman)‚ and Marie-Jean Roland‚ (also a woman)‚ who inspired the French women to take part in the revolution; women still did not have much influence in the revolutions and after that. So‚ what did women throughout the revolutions
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conversion‚ she and four other women formed a lay group dedicated to charity and took simple vows. Called “tipsy women” because of the d’Youvilles’ alleged profits from brandy trafficking‚ in 1747 they were put in charge of the bankrupt Hôpital Général de Montréal. In French‚ grise means both ‘tipsy’ and ‘grey.’ What was meant as a slight to the women became the inspiration for their name–the Grey Nuns. In 1755‚ the women became the Sisters of Charity or the Grey Nuns (Sœurs grises). Many Montrealers
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sacred rights of man and of the citizen‚ where they listed seventeen points in which were the rights given. The publication of the document did not sit well with a white French woman by the name of Olympe de Gouges. She noticed that these rights that were put in to place by the men‚ that
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notable women who did open up about this was Olympe de Gouges. She wrote the Declaration of the Rights of women along with other documents like Les Trois Urnes which led to her arrest and execution in 1793. During the 1700’s women was nothing more than just an object. Their main role was just to be a good wife‚ reproduce and then take care of the family while men make all decisions (Nash). Gouges was different‚ she was like a black sheep of her era. Gouges was a woman who defied the odds and stood
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citizen assume sovereignty‚ but this security was accepted by the male citizen‚ so it ignored the Rights of women and the female citizen. Therefore‚ the Declaration of Rights of Women included female rights to change male chauvinism. In addition‚ Olympe de Gouges is one of famous person who declared the women’s rights. She began to open protest rally for woman rights‚ and she criticized that the Declaration of Human Rights did not secure the female citizen’s rights. However‚ she could not change the concept
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used to argue for equality in society. However‚ women were oftentimes left out of the conversation. Hoping to expose revolutionaries for this oversight‚ Olympe de Gouges wrote “The Declaration of the Rights of Woman” that delineated the natural rights of all French individuals. The Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789‚ to which de Gouges’s work is a direct response‚ evaluated the relationship between citizens and the state and successfully influenced amendments to the French Constitution
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Throughout this reading‚ De Gouges never shows her true identity of herself being a woman. She covers it up so men don’t just assume that the writing is biased and shouldn’t be taken seriously just because a woman wrote it. The goal of the overall piece of work is to influence the society as a whole‚ which means both men and women must buy into this idea of women being “equal” (De Gouges 176). In her writing‚ De Gouges seems to question how men have been treating women and if they have the right
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of trials. In Article VI she says that women should be treated equally to men when they break the law and that women should not be sheltered from punishment for a crime that they committed. This was not a topic that had been addressed much‚ but de Gouges was adamant that when she advocated for equality for men and women she advocated for absolute equality between the two
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