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First page of Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne), also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written on 14 September 1791 by French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in response to the 1789 Declaration of ...
Olympe de Gouges (French: [ɔlɛ̃p də ɡuʒ] ⓘ; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist.She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism.
Olympe de Gouges wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in 1791. Madame de Staël, one of the most sophisticated activists and commentators on the Revolution [27] While some women chose a militant and often violent path, others chose to influence events through writing, publications, and meetings.
[13] [6] Yet, women were "denied political rights of 'active citizenship' (1791) and democratic citizenship (1793)." [13] In 1791, Olympe de Gouges published a vital document of the Revolution, the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. In it, de Gouges replicated the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ...
6 October – The French Penal Code of 1791 is adopted. On 14 October a law passed to reorganize the Garde Nationale in cantons and districts; officers and sub-officers were to be elected for only one year. 16–17 October – Massacres of La Glacière. 28 October – The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen is published.
A new book from two New York Times reporters—The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America—details how fights about abortion are actually debates about the place of women in American life.
1848 – At Seneca Falls, New York, 300 women and men sign the Declaration of Sentiments, ... 1985 – EMILY's List is founded, its mission to elect Democratic, pro-abortion rights women to office.
Virginia Declaration of Rights, adopted in Virginia in 1776; Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, adopted in France in 1789; Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, written in France in 1791; Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1793, written in France in 1793