Olympe de Gouges

Olympe de Gouges was a woman in France during the 1700s. Normally a woman of this time period would be married, having children, and doing house work, but Olympe de Gouges was not the typical housewife that men expected her to be. She was an outspoken activist who truly changed France for the better. De Gouges fought for all people, women, Africans, orphans, the poor, the unemployed, the illegitimate, and the elderly. She did not do so by starting an all out rebellion, but using the little education she had, to write 40 plays, two novels, and almost 70 pamphlets that all focused on aspects of France she wanted to change. Her most famous work was the “Declaration of Rights of Woman”, which was written to challenge the writing of “Declaration…

It was possible to observed multiple dimensions of inequality and expressions of discrimination against women in access, use and control of opportunities, decision-making and management of resources and services, as well as the lack of recognition of their rights. Olympe de Gouges in its Declaration of women's rights and citizenship (1791) required for women the rights of freedom and equality proclaimed by the French Revolution. It was the first document in which the female vote was required as…

the Declaration of the Rights of Women by Olympe de Gouges, which was written in 1791. De Gouge fearlessly criticized not just the men of politics, but the entire population of men, and didn’t hold back on the words she used to describe them. She asserted that having superior genders is nothing but “empty pretentions” and women should wake up and disrupt this cycle. She also stated that equality could be achieved if women would stand up, unite, and have the will to use their inner power to break…

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…

Olympe De Gouse was a political activist, who was thought less of automatically because she was a woman. The hectic and shifting events of her era lead her to develop ideas that were evolving along with it. During the French revolution the rights of man and citizens was created which is sexist and leaves out half of the other population. The declaration of the rights of man and the citizen was written in 1879 during the climax of the French revolution and proclaimed that all men are born and…

Revolution is a time of change and women wanted their lives and their rights to improve along with the men’s. However, without De Gouges’ Declaration there would have been no one speaking for women. Her declaration state almost identical rights for women as the “Declaration of the rights of Man” states for men. De Gouges wanted equal treatment and equal punishment, which was not provided to them before. Before the revolution, women were given almost no rights when it came to terms of custody or…

Revolution Throughout history, numerous people have started revolutions in many ways by displaying progressive ideas and fighting for the liberal changes in their society. One such example is Olympe de Gouges, who courageously advocated for the rights of women in her writing “The Rights of Woman”. During Gouges’ time, women were living by social standards that made them inferior to men. In hopes of influencing the public with her notions and showing support for the females, Gouges, despite…

During the 18th and 19th centuries, both Frederick Douglass and Olympe de Gouges were implicitly forced by their government to fight against civil right violations. In the 19th century, Frederick Douglass released The Right to Criticize American Institution corresponding to Slavery and its ill-willed repercussions amongst 3,000,000 people of color in America. In the 18th century, Olympe de Gouges released Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen which was a reinterpretation…

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This is referred to as the “second wave” because of reasons aforementioned. When people think of second wave feminism, they think of Simone de Beauvoir. She can be seen as “the face” of this wave because of the influence she had on modern feminism through her works in the mid-19th century. Dorie LaRue elaborates, “Simone de Beauvoir, who was a prolific writer, was most famous for The Second Sex because of its profound impact upon the feminist movement. Though some feminists have concerns with…