Women played a vital role in evolution of the Enlightenment Era. The women of the Enlightenment were the creators of feminism, they gave birth to the Women Liberation Movement. Female activists like Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe de Gouges broke ground for modern feminists like Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes. To this day women are still fighting to break the glass ceilings holding them back, such as the current wage gap. Women of the enlightenment began the over three-hundred-year long fight for equality. Great authors like Mary Shelly showed people that woman could contribute to culture and could present different ideas to society.
Involvement in the enlightenment era was normally reserved for upper and middle class people and not many women are noted for their contribution. Not every woman of the era was a firecracker on a soapbox like Wollstonecraft. Some women, like Moll King, contributed to the movement in a more domestic manner by hosting salons and …show more content…
She wrote “The Declaration of the Rights of Women” among many other political pieces, pamphlets and politically fueled plays. She made many, which most considered radical, claims for the rights of women and demanded that women recognize that they her owed these rights by birth in the same way as Mary Wollstonecraft did. “The Declaration of the Rights of Women” reads very much like our own United States constitution and the piece was written in response the lack of rights for women in the French constitution. She proclaimed that “Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on common utility. The purpose of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of woman and man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and especially resistance to oppression” (de
Involvement in the enlightenment era was normally reserved for upper and middle class people and not many women are noted for their contribution. Not every woman of the era was a firecracker on a soapbox like Wollstonecraft. Some women, like Moll King, contributed to the movement in a more domestic manner by hosting salons and …show more content…
She wrote “The Declaration of the Rights of Women” among many other political pieces, pamphlets and politically fueled plays. She made many, which most considered radical, claims for the rights of women and demanded that women recognize that they her owed these rights by birth in the same way as Mary Wollstonecraft did. “The Declaration of the Rights of Women” reads very much like our own United States constitution and the piece was written in response the lack of rights for women in the French constitution. She proclaimed that “Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on common utility. The purpose of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of woman and man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and especially resistance to oppression” (de