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  2. Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen

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    First page of Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne), also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written on 14 September 1791 by French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in response to the 1789 Declaration of ...

  3. Charlotte Woodward Pierce - Wikipedia

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    Charlotte Woodward Pierce (January 14, 1830 – March 15, 1924) was the only woman to sign the Declaration of Sentiments at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and live to see the passing of the 19th Amendment in 1920. [1] She was the only one of the 68 women who signed the Declaration to see the day that women could vote nationwide. [2]

  4. Declaration of Sentiments - Wikipedia

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    Signers of the Declaration at Seneca Falls in order: Lucretia Coffin Mott is at top of the list The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, [1] is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women.

  5. Olympe de Gouges - Wikipedia

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    Olympe de Gouges (French: [ɔlɛ̃p də ɡuʒ] ⓘ; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist.She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism.

  6. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Wikipedia

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    [7] At the end of 1791, French feminist Olympe de Gouges had published her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, and the question of women's rights became central to political debates in both France and Britain. [3] The Rights of Woman is an extension of Wollstonecraft's arguments in the Rights of Men.

  7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Wikipedia

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    The Seneca Falls Convention is now recognized as an historic event, the first convention to be called for the purpose of discussing women's rights. The convention's Declaration of Sentiments became "the single most important factor in spreading news of the women's rights movement around the country in 1848 and into the future," according to ...

  8. Legal rights of women in history - Wikipedia

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    The legal rights of women refers to the social and human rights of women. One of the first women's rights declarations was the Declaration of Sentiments . [ 1 ] The dependent position of women in early law is proved by the evidence of most ancient systems.

  9. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident.' The Declaration of ...

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    The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. ... That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the ...