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However, they were angered that women would be left out of being given rights and being able to partake in the reshaping of their country. They showed the inconsistency and hypocrisy of the Declaration: "You have broken the scepter of despotism, you have pronounced the beautiful axiom [that] . . . the French are a free people.
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 ...
In 1909, French noblewoman and feminist Jeanne-Elizabeth Schmahl founded the French Union for Women's Suffrage to advocate for women's right to vote in France. Despite some cultural changes following World War I , which had resulted in women replacing the male workers who had gone to the front, they were known as the Années folles and their ...
French feminists fighting for abortion rights are working to secure a necessary right for women’s freedom and bodily autonomy, but they’re also taking an important step to protect their nation ...
Journal of Women's History 28.4 (2016): 134–143, deals with French nuns in 19th century. Diamond, Hanna. Women and the Second World War in France 1939-1948: Choices and Constraints (1999) Foley, Susan. Women in France Since 1789 (NYU, 2004)
In 1866, she created the "Association for the Improvement of Women's Education" and in 1868, she published a text defending the equality of the sexes which was the origin of the first French feminist group. [9] Other women also defended the idea of women's liberation such as Julie-Victoire Daubié, the first woman to obtain the baccalaureate in ...
As French lawmakers voted to topple the government on Wednesday, several thousand people lined up outside a cafe in northern Paris for a chance to share a brief word, or perhaps even a selfie ...
The French Union for Women's Suffrage (UFSF: French: Union française pour le suffrage des femmes) was a French feminist organization formed in 1909 that fought for the right of women to vote, which was eventually granted in 1945. The Union took a moderate approach, advocating staged introduction of suffrage starting with local elections, and ...