Olympe de Gouges (born Marie Gouze; May 7, 1748 - November 3, 1793) was a playwright and journalist whose feminist writings reached a large audience. A proponent of democracy, she demanded the same rights for French women that French men were demanding for themselves. In her "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen" (1791), she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality. Wikipedia
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they could not know that they would themselves soon be foreshortened and tossed into the dustbin of History. Nor that their victim, Olympe de Gouges , the most beautiful daughter of Quercy, and in many ways the founder of the movement for women's emanc www.quercy.net/hommes/ogenglish.html
(Making feminist scholars work accessible to you.) A Sunshine for Women's Book Summary: Read Gouges' The Rights of Women (including her commentary), a document patterned after the French The Rights of Men www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/gouges.html
