Western Civilization II / Unit 7 WC2 0615 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Equality Denied: Women, de Gouges, and Wollstonecraft
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The idea
Women stormed the Bastille, yet the Assembly never debated their rights. Olympe de Gouges answered with a Declaration of the Rights of Woman in seventeen ninety-one, and Wollstonecraft's Vindication of ninety-two made women's liberation the key to dismantling hierarchy for all.
In practice
De Gouges was executed; women's clubs were shut.
Where people slip
Neither found sympathy for a century, the anchor says.
Your place on the trail
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