Marry Wollstonecraft's Declaration Of The Rights Of Woman

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Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen: The Rights of Woman
The background of Marry Wollstonecraft author of From a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, living in 1759 to 1797 it is a clear understanding about why she wrote about woman’s write and she could have been one of the leading people in the women rights movement with a continuance with the Feminist movement. “Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century” (Puchner 134). With this statement it is true in the time period of which her work was developed in and it is true in today’s society as well. Her writing might have not been circulated much in her time but it does have connections with the Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen (Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens) which was passed by the French National Constituent Assembly.
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With the first statement point “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinction can be based only upon public utility.” (Puchner 22). It indicates that even though that men are born free that there is still the bias on society which in this is upon the utilities of the public. It has no mention of women and the rights that they should have. “Woman is born free and remain equal in rights. Social distinction can be based only upon public utility.” Was written by Olympe de Gouges in her Déclaration des Droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne (Declaration of the Rights of woman and of the Citizens) (Puchner

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