Olimpia de Gouges

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Her “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen” takes the Declaration of 1789 and rewrites each of its seventeen articles so that it applies to women: woman is born free and equal to man in rights; the nation is the union of women and men; the law must be the same for all, so that if woman may mount the scaffold she must equally be able to mount the rostrum. A postscript tells women to wake up. De Gouges was a pamphleteer, not a systematic philosopher; but her text is the clearest early statement that the universal rights of 1789 were not universal.

Życie i kontekst

Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793), born Marie Gouze in Montauban, was widowed young and moved to Paris, where she wrote plays – including one against the slave trade staged by the Comédie-Française – and political pamphlets. She welcomed the Revolution but opposed the execution of the king and attacked Robespierre. Arrested in 1793 for a poster proposing a referendum on the form of government, she was guillotined on 3 November.

Dalsze główne dzieła

• Reflections on Black Men (1788)
• Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (1791)

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