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The role of women in society became a topic of discussion during the Enlightenment. Influential philosophers and thinkers such as John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith, Nicolas de Condorcet, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau debated matters of gender equality. Prior to the Enlightenment, women were not considered of equal status to men in Western society.
Marie Thérèse Geoffrin (French pronunciation: [maʁi teʁɛz ʁɔdɛ ʒɔfʁɛ̃], née Rodet; 26 June 1699 – 6 October 1777) was a French salon holder who has been referred to as one of the leading female figures in the French Enlightenment.
The Age of Enlightenment was a broad philosophical movement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The traditional theological-political system that placed Scripture at the center, with religious authorities and monarchies claiming and enforcing their power by divine right, was challenged and overturned in the realm of ideas.
Maria Martínez Abelló, known as Madama Abelló (died 1815), was a Spanish writer, dramatist, poet and salonnière.. She belonged to the group of literary women who kept literary salons and was published in Spanish papers between 1785 and 1805, when the Age of Enlightenment provided a greater public space for women in Spain.
The first Black woman to serve in Congress in 1968, Chisholm (nicknamed "Fighting Shirley") was also the first Black person and the first woman to run for U.S. president. In 1964, she became the ...
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General texts on the Enlightenment, such as Daniel Roche's France in the Enlightenment tend to agree that women were dominant within the salons, but that their influence did not extend far outside of such venues. [31] Antoine Lilti, on the other hand, rejects the notion that women 'governed' conversation in the salons. [32]
We've included the woman who wrote the original lyrics to Puerto Rico's national anthem, the Latina who helped fight to desegregate the school system and the famous Latina author who was the first ...