![]() While I personally found the issue of women’s rights during the Revolution fascinating, it seemed to me that in my classes it was always overlooked to focus on other major events. In a later class I took about the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, she was again mentioned very briefly. ![]() ![]() Frustrated by the government’s refusal to acknowledge women’s rights, De Gouges wrote and published her own Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in 1791, modeled on the original declaration. It is in this context that Olympe de Gouges’ name and writings came up. In August 1789, when the recently formed National Assembly wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Men and of the Citizen, comparable to the U.S.’ Declaration of Independence, its rights solely applied to men women did not enjoy the benefits of the French Revolution’s ideas of freedom, democracy, and natural rights. She will be continuing her research on this topic during the summer with funding from the university.īy Justine Carré Miller ( first heard the name Olympe de Gouges in an undergrad French History class, when studying the French Revolution. ![]() ![]() This post is an excerpt from Justine’s award-winning article in Villanova’s interdisciplinary graduate school journal Concept. ![]()
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