by Olympe de Gouges · Belin · ISBN 9791035818678
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«Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne» is Olympe de Gouges's feminist essay, published by Belin (2021, 117 pp., in French).
Written in 1791, this essay denounces the fact that the civil and political rights proclaimed during the French Revolution left women out. Olympe de Gouges claims her full citizenship and demands legal and social equality, in a work that has become a reference point for feminism.
For students and readers interested in the history of political philosophy and in the struggle for gender equality.
Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism.
