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Roberts, Rebecca. "Le Catholicisme au féminin: Thirty Years of Women's History," Historical Reflections (2013) 39#1 pp. 82–100, on France, especially research on Catholic nuns by Claude Langlois; Spencer, Samia I., ed. French Women and the Age of Enlightenment (1984) Stephens, Sonya. History of Women's Writing in France (2000).
Women of the French Revolution (1987) 192 pp biographical portraits or prominent writers and activists; Kindleberger, Elizabeth R. "Charlotte Corday in Text and Image: A Case Study in the French Revolution and Women's History." French Historical Studies (1994) 18#4 pp: 969-999 in JSTOR
Anne de Seguier, 16th-century French poet and salon-holder; Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999), Russian-born French novelist, who pioneered the nouveau roman; Albertine Sarrazin (1937–1967), French-Algerian novelist, essayist, and poet; Johanna Schipper (known as "Johanna"; born 1967), Taiwanese-born French comics artist and short-story writer
In the English-speaking world, the term "French feminism" refers to a branch of theories and philosophies by and about women that emerged in the 1970s to the 1990s. These ideas have run parallel to and sometimes in contradistinction to the political feminist movement in France but is often referred to as "French feminist theory," distinguished ...
Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI, was beheaded during the French Revolution.. This is a list of the women who were queens or empresses as wives of French monarchs from the 843 Treaty of Verdun, which gave rise to West Francia, until 1870, when the French Third Republic was declared.
Oct. 5, 1789, a young woman struck a marching drum and led The Women's March on Versailles, in a revolt against King Louis XVI of France, storming the palace and signaling the French Revolution. [30] In 1947, Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti led the Abeokuta Women's Union in a revolt that resulted in the abdication of the Egba High King Oba Ademola ...
The women's march was a signal event of the French Revolution, with an effect on par with the fall of the Bastille. [68] For posterity, the march is emblematic of the power of popular movements. The occupation of the deputies' benches in the Assembly created a template for the future, ushering in the mob rule that would frequently influence ...
Antoine-Leonard Thomas was a distinguished member of a French Academy, but opposed women's involvement in the revolution. He agreed with Rousseau, and published Essay on the character, nature of morals and spirit of women where he stated it was engraved in nature that women were inferior to men in most ways. [citation needed]