Women Of The French Revolution

However, the revolution didn’t encourage both sexes to reevaluate the women’s right. It very little changed happen women still had the same basic rights like before. However, Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, became an early supporter of women's rights when she prompted her husband to "REMEMBER THE LADIES" when starting up a new government. Even though Adams passed a new law that protects some women from bad husband this new law did not protect the single women. Also, women need and wanted to have the same right as men. Women have the same capacity and the same intellectual as men, there is no difference. The only difference between women and men that men have access to education and have more power than women before the American Revolution, this changed after women started to realize that they could have the same rights as men. Furthermore, American women deserve to have the same right. If the republic were to succeed, women must be educated in quality so they could teach their children how

     The revolution also changes the status of women in the 15 years following the American Revolution. There was a push to allow for better women’s education. In 1789, Massachusetts passed a law insisting elementary schools be open to both girls and boys. Girls from rich families had the ability to receive a good education on subjects including math, history and geography. A large advocate of women’s education was Judith Sargent Murray, who argued men and women had equal intellectual abilities, but women’s lack of chances is what made them appear inferior. Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, also called for legal reform in order to prevent male tyranny over women. Some even went further and called for the right of women to vote. This was still denied to women, however, and it would not be over 100 years later until they were granted this right. Despite some small advances for women’s rights, there was still a notion of inferiority to men.

Women generally did not fight in the revolution, and the traditional status of Eighteenth Century women meant that they were not publicly able to participate fully in the debates over the revolution. However, in their own sphere, and sometimes out of it, woman participated fully in the revolution in all the ways that their status and custom allowed.

Women are frequently overlooked when it comes to history in the 18th centuries. They were there in the flesh for all of the historical events, but they are rarely mentioned. Everyone has heard of the “Founding Fathers”, but students rarely hear about the “Founding Mothers” in their curriculum. Although women did not directly plan out our government, they still deserve to be given some credit for it. The roles that women played during the Revolutionary War greatly influenced the outcome of the war and the country that resulted from it.

One can learn an ample amount about historical figures through the written works of historians; however, in order to truly understand historical events one must analyze a primary source on their related topic. This is the same for Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, who was an influential lawyer during the French Revolution. One primary document that explores in depth the experiences of Malesherbes is The Life of Lamoignon Malesherbes written by Edward Mangin and Jean Delisle de Sales. Published in 1814, this document can be trusted as an accurate analysis of Malesherbes’s life as it was published only 20 years after his death. Also to further support this claim both Sales (1741-1816) and Mangin (1772-1852) were alive during the time of Malesherbes. Sales was an established French polygraph and philosopher who is most notably known for The Philosophy of Nature: Treatise on Human Moral Nature, and by 1794 he began to pity for royalists and as a result was arrested for publishing anti-revolutionary work. While Mangin was not as well known as Sales, he held a college degree and published a wide range of credited works. The purpose of this biography was to portray the true life of Malesherbes, which may have been tainted by being sentenced to the guillotine in 1794. While The Life of Lamoignon Malesherbes covers a wide array of events throughout his life, one can indirectly learn that Malesherbes was much more than another victim of the reign of terror, but a

Part A: Women participated in almost every aspect of the French Revolution. This investigation will answer the question, to what extent did women contribute to the French Revolution? This question is important because the choices of the women during this time still leads a major impact of history even today. The scope of this investigation was The French Revolution during a period of time between the years 1787 to 1799, and was known to be a very controversial time period in the history of France.

The American Revolution, which happened during the last half of the eighteenth century, reshaped many aspects of life in America. The desire of the Founding Fathers to make America a republic played a very significant part in changing the role of women after the Revolution. The role of women as wives became more important as an emphasis on virtue was established; women were encouraged to find virtuous husbands and utilize their seductive nature to keep men virtuous. The roles of women as mothers also became more important in the republic, as patriarchy loosened and mothers were depended on to educate their children in the republican way. And finally, the role of women in politics was theoretically reduced due to the increasing demands of

Carol Berkin clearly states her thesis in the introduction of Revolutionary Mothers. “Despite the absence of radical changes in gender ideology and gender roles for most women, the Revolution did lend legitimacy to new ideas about women’s capacities and their proper roles”. (Berkin 2005) In two thousand and fourteen it is questionable about how clearly women’s roles have changed especially in the areas of economics and politics at least it is obvious that the revolution did not bring equality.

As the saying goes, “a woman’s work is never done,” but today’s women live a far different life than their predecessors. The women of the revolution were courageous and brave-hearted. The obstacles of their time were far more difficult to overcome than those faced by women in this day and age. Whether it was slavery, war, or racial prejudice, these women kept their heads held high and worked to break down these barriers and create change for the future. On top of having to deal with these hardships, the women of the revolution had families to take care of, mouths to feed, houses to clean, and wounds to heal. For many women of the revolution it was all about taking a stand for their rights and being

The revolution of women rights politicized millions of French men by transforming their statues from subjects to citizens, but revolutionaries of all political stripes displayed an extreme reluctance to incorporate women into the political body. She also wrote Pamphlets and plays that described a variety of issues, like slavery and in which she attacked as being founded on greed and blinded of the biases that surrounded her. In one of her most famous pamphlets, she describes the declaration of the women’s rights to the parallel of the one for men thus, criticizes the deputies for haven forgotten women. She also pointed out the pamphlet to the Queen, Marie Antoinette, though she also warned the Queen that she has to work with the Revolution or risk destroying the monarchy. In the postscript, she denounced the customary treatment of women as objects are easily abandoned and in which women should be treated equally because they are both people. Gouges appended to the declaration as a sample of a form of the marriage contract that called for communal sharing of

Kreber notes that women played a number of key roles during the revolution including participating in various boycotts, enforcement of economic norms, nursing, or even the production of clothing for soldiers1. These positions were often needed but were not exulted because of the women filling these roles. This is what led Kreber to investigate the role of female patriotism in the revolution2. Kreber says that the revolution changed the minds of women in the Early Republic. She said that the Revolution argued for women's rights due to its claims of equality and freedom.3 Since women were actively allowed to participate in political and war-time activities, it created a spark for change in the woman's role. These activities gave women a new meaning to the word equality amongst their superior male counterparts. For the first time, women began to challenge the status quo of being confined to house life. Kreber describes the four major areas that women were effected by as a result of the revolution were womien education, derture, divorce, and reading4. These were the four biggest areas because women wanted to be like men. These were all areas men prided themselves in. Education was heavily constricted because of the belief of the woman's place in the home. Kreber says “even a contemporary women's magazine warned, learning in men was the road to preferment...consequently very opposite were the results of the same in women5.” Kreber saw the limitations on education as the

Because of the discontinuity of French political history, the strength of the Patriarchal culture, and the inability of the French feminist movement to form a cohesive unit, French women could not obtain the right to vote until 1944.

Rosalie Ducrollay lived in France during the Revolution. She witness the downfall of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. According to the history archive in Paris, Rosalie wrote 1000 letters in her time. She married Marc Antione. During the French Revolution., women had made some gains in equality. Some historians mention that, women's role in pubic were retracted during the revolution. Women of the popular class, enjoyed a traditional role of speaking against corrupt monarch. Rosalie is the main character and lived in France. She lives in the country side. Her parents were merchants in a town close to Paris. (13 Lindsay A. Parker) She's a well-educated and outspoken person of the 18th century. Rosalie wrote her first letter in 1775, it would seem she sought to learn. Rosalie and her husband got married a year after the death of his 1st wife. There's no record of their marriage. Rosalie hid her marriage from family and friends. She had a son and named him Jules. It was unusual for them to hide their marriage, since they were Bourgeoisie (Wealthy Upper Class). They didn't feel the social pressure to marry quickly. Rosalie had a 2nd child, Bernard who died of smallpox at 16 months and later had a 3rd child Auguste. When Rosalie husband was away for business, she was in charge of the country estate, providing land to the farmers and taking care of families. It’s important to know that, Rosalie was very close to her husband’s family and oversee the business. Rosalie was

During the American Revolutionary Era, women played essential roles in the defiance against Great Britain by boycotting British products and joining the non-consumption organization. During the American Revolution, women served as nurses, cooks, maids, seamstresses, some even secretly enlisted in the Continental Army. From 1825 to 1850, women were fighting for equal opportunities as men and women’s right to vote, the Reform Period. Women’s roles were similar during the American Revolutionary Era and the Reform Movement because during both periods, women contributed to the movements, by joining political protest. Their roles differed during the periods because women during the reform movements, created conventions geared towards women, exacting

These revolutions presented women with new opportunities, but in the end, only Russia would retain these benefits. Many attempts to improve the roles of women in society throughout the period of the French Revolution, but overall it didn’t last. In the household for example, women were confined to staying at home even though there was women actively participating in the revolution. Most men believed that women were caretakers of the household and should remain out of political affairs.