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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.
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.
The Rights of Women [including the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen], Olympe de Gouges (1791) [28] Breve difesa dei diritti delle donne scritta da Rosa Califronia contessa romana,, A Brief Defence of the Rights of Women of Rosa Califronia, Roman Countess, Rosa Califronia (1794) [29] La causa delle donne.
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
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.
The authors acknowledge how the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, with its "paternal solicitude", makes it so that "the poor villager is no longer obliged to grovel before the proud seigneur of his parish; the unfortunate vassal can halt in his tracks the impetuous boar that piteously ravaged his crops; the timid soldier dares to complain when he is run down by the splendid ...