Women's Participation In French Revolution

In this paper the topic that will be explored is if women had a political revolution, around the time area of the French revolution. Thus the French revolution is a major and important revolution that opened the door to many other revolutions for example the American Revolution. Thus this revolution is seen to be import due to the fact that the “third order of France was able to over throw the king and establish a democratic leadership (Levy pg.280).” However, during the revolution many women as well as children participated in plenty of the events. Thus the involvement of women has never really been seen as the involvement that the women of the French revolution had. However, it seems that during the revolution many women viewed that something had to be done about the treatment of women as well as their rights. Although some would say that before the revolution many …show more content…
Levy states the “French revolutionaries established legislatures, local governing bodies, political clubs, a popular press, and other institutions doe political participation…. (Levy pg. 280).” During this time period many “women were involved in these transformation in all kinds of way: as members of revolutionary cowards, as radical leaders, and as supporters of the French government (Levy pg. 260).” Therefore, women were making an impact on the revolution for their gender without even knowing it. Although there were some women during that time period that were advocating for women’s rights many weren’t aware of it (Sigel).” Significant numbers of women were involved in the progressive radicalization of politics in Paris and especially in the development of republicanism after the king tried unsuccessfully to flee the country in June 1791 (Levy pg. 281).” Thus the impact that the women had was with the events that they took part in as well them realizing that they wanted equality and