Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (Published 1791) Source: http://csivc.csi.cuny.edu/americanstudies/files/lavender/decwom2.html Document 5.6

Its author, Marie-Olympe de Gouges (1748-93), was one of the most prominent feminist writers of the revolutionary period. Imprisoned for her Girondin sympathies in July 1793, she was executed in …

The impact of Olympe de Gouges’s political activism is commemorated by her inclusion as the only French woman on revolutionary and abolitionist Abbé Henri Grégoire’s (1750-1831) list of “all those …

o oppress my sex? Your strength? Your talents? Observe the Creator in his wisdom; survey in all her grandeur that nature with whom you seem to want to be in harmony, and give me, if .

Dans cette œuvre, Olympe de Gouges a symboliquement redistribué les cartes entre les sexes avec humour et satire. Elle y défend l’égalité dans toutes les situations.

Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached large audiences. She began her career as a playwright in the early 1780s, and as the …

Olympe de Gouges challenged the lack of equality for women found in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen promulgated by the National Assembly in 1789, the fundamental statement of …