Antonia Criscenti
Università di Catania
Abstract
In 1791, Olympe de Gouges accused and contested the Revolution which excluded by human rights women’s rights, and she writes the Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne, an egalitarian proposal for the enjoyment of fundamental rights, that France and Europe will take two centuries to implement (almost) fully. Olympe led her public battle with a pen; eventually, she was guillotined, as she “wished”, to claim the equality of the right to be revolutionary.
Keywords
French Revolution – Woman Rights – Gender Equality – Women’s Liberation – Pamphlet
DOI: 10.13131/unipi/2611-9757/eyyh-gd37
