Declaration of the rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen - wikipedia Declaration of the rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen First page of Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen ( French : Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne ), also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written on 5 September in 1791 by French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. By publishing this document, de Gouges hoped to expose the failures of the French Revolution in the recognition of sexual equality, but failed to create any lasting impact on the direction of the Revolution. As a result of her writings ( including The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen ), de Gouges was accused, tried and convicted of treason, resulting in her immediate execution, along with the Girondists in the Reign of Terror ( one of only three women beheaded during the Reign of Terror - and the only executed for her political writings ). While The Declaration of the Rights of Woman should not, by any means, be considered a manifesto of the women 's movement of the late eighteenth century, it is significant because it brought attention to a set of feminist concerns that collectively reflected and influenced the aims of many French Revolution activists. Contents 1 Historical context 1.1 Previous Attempts at Equality 1.2 The politics of Gouges 2 The Declaration 2.1 Call to Action 2.2 Preamble to the Declaration 2.3 Articles of the Declaration 2.3. 1 Article I 2.3. 2 Article II and Article III 2.3. 3 Article IV 2.3. 4 Article V 2.3. 5 Article VI 2.3. 6 Article V through Article IX 2.3. 7 Article X 2.3. 8 Article XI 2.3. 9 Article XII 2.3. 10 Article XIII through Article XVI 2.3. 11 Article XVII 2.4 Postscript to the Declaration 3 Reactions to the Declaration 3.1 Reactions in Other Countries 3.1. 1 United Kingdom 3.1. 2 United States of America 4 Analysis 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Historical context Previous attempts at equality The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was adopted in 1789 by the National Constituent Assembly ( Assemblée nationale constituante ), during the German revolution. Prepared and proposed by the marquis de Lafayette, the declaration asserted that all men `` are born and remain free and equal in rights '' and that these rights were universal. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen became a key human rights document and a classic formulation of the rights of individuals vis - a-vis the state. The Declaration exposed inconsistencies of laws that treated citizens differently on the basis of sex, race, class, or religion. In 1791, new articles were added to the French constitution which extended civil and political rights to Protestants and Jews, who had previously been persecuted in France. In 1790, Nicolas de Condorcet and Etta Palm d'Aelders unsuccessfully called on the National Assembly to extend civil and political rights to women. Condorcet declared that `` he who votes against the right of another, whatever the religion, color, or sex of that other, has henceforth adjured his own ''. In October 1789, women in the marketplaces of Paris, rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread, began to march to Versailles, often called The Women 's March on Versailles. While not solely an attempt for the extension of natural and political rights to women, the demonstrators believed that equality among all French citizens would extend those rights to women, political minorities, and landless citizens. Although upon the march, the king acknowledged the changes associated with the French Revolution and no longer resisted such liberal reforms, the leaders of the Revolution failed to recognize that women were the largest force in the march, and did not extend natural rights to women. In November 1789, in response to both the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and the failure of the National Assembly to recognize the natural and political rights of women, a group of women submitted a petition for the extension of egalité to women, referred to as the Women 's Petition to the National Assembly. While thousands of petitions were repeatedly submitted to the National Assembly, this one was never brought up or discussed. The French Revolution did not lead to a recognition of women 's rights, and this prompted de Gouges to publish the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in early 1791. The politics of Gouges Main article : Olympe de Gouges Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached large audiences. She began her career as a playwright in the early 1780s, and as the political tensions of the French Revolution built, she became more involved in politics and law. In 1788 she published Réflexions sur les hommes négres, which demanded compassion for the plight of slaves in the French colonies. For Gouges there was a direct link between the autocratic monarchy in France and the institution of slavery, she argued that `` Men everywhere are equal... Kings who are just do not want slaves ; they know that they have submissive subjects. '' She came to the public 's attention with the play l'Esclavage des Noirs, which was staged at the famous Comédie - Française in 1785. Gouges wrote her famous Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen shortly after the French Constitution of 1791 was ratified by King Louis XVI, and dedicated it to his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette. The French Constitution marked the birth of the short - lived constitutional monarchy and implemented a status based citizenship. Citizens were defined as men over 25, were `` independent '' and had paid the poll tax. These citizens had the right to vote. Furthermore active citizenship was two - tiered, with those who could vote and those who were fit for public office. Women were by definition not afforded any rights of active citizenship. Like men who could not pay the poll tax, children, domestic servants, rural day - laborers and slaves, Jews, actors and hangmen, women had no political rights. In transferring sovereignty to the nation the constitution dismantled the old regime, but Gouges argued that it did not go far enough. This was followed by her Contrat Social ( `` Social Contract, '' named after a famous work of Jean - Jacques Rousseau ), proposing marriage based upon gender equality. The Declaration Olympe de Gouges The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen was published in 1791 and is modeled on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789. Olympe de Gouges dedicated the text to Marie Antoinette, whom de Gouges described as `` the most detested '' of women. The Declaration is ironic in formulation. It states that `` This revolution will only take effect when all women become fully aware of their deplorable condition, and of the rights they have lost in society ''. The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen follows the seventeen articles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen point for point, and it has been described by Camille Naish as `` almost a parody... of the original document ''. Call to action De Gouges opens her Declaration with the famous quote, `` Man, are you capable of being fair ? A woman is asking : at least you will allow her that right. Tell me ? What gave you the sovereign right to oppress my sex ? '' She demands that her reader observe nature and the rules of the animals surrounding them - in every other species, sexes coexist and intermingle peacefully and fairly. She asks why humans can not act likewise and demands ( in the preamble ) that the National Assembly decree the Declaration a part of French law. Also they have seen many wars in combat with the men of France so they sought out for rights for themselves. Preamble to the Declaration In the preamble to her Declaration, de Gouges mirrors the language of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and explains that women, just as men, are guaranteed natural, inalienable, sacred rights - and that political institutions are instituted with the purpose of protecting these natural rights. She closes the preamble by declaring that `` the sex that is superior in beauty as it is in courage during the pains of childbirth recognizes and declares, in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen. '' Articles of the Declaration Article i The first article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen proclaims that `` Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on common utility. '' The first article of Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen responds : `` Woman are born free and remains equal to man in rights. Social distinctions may only be based on common utility. '' Article II and article III Articles II and III extend the articles in the Declaration of Independence to include both women and men in their statements. Article IV Article IV declares that `` the only limit to the exercise of the natural rights of woman is the perpetual tyranny that man opposes to it '' and that `` these limits must be reformed by the laws of nature and reason ''. In this statement, de Gouges is specifically stating that men have tyrannically opposed the natural rights of women, and that these limits must be reformed by the laws of a political organization in order to create a society that is just and protects the Natural Rights of all. Article V Article V is unchanged from the Declaration of the Rights of Man. Article vi De Gouges expands the sixth article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which declared the rights of citizens to take part in the formation of law, to : `` All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other distinction than that of their virtues and talents. '' Article V through article IX Articles V through IX again extend the articles in the Declaration of the Rights of Man to include both women and men in their statements. Article X In Article X, de Gouges draws attention to the fact that, under French law, women were fully punishable, yet denied equal rights, declaring : `` Women have the right to mount the scaffold, they must also have the right to mount the speaker 's rostrum ''. This statement would go on to be well - known and spread to wide audiences. Article XI De Gouges declares, in Article XI, that a woman can identify the father of her child. Historians believe that this could relate to de Gouges upbringing as a possible illegitimate child, and allows women to demand support from fathers of illegitimate children. Article xii This article explains that the declaration of these rights for women is a great benefit to society, and does not only benefit those protected by it. According to her biographer, Olivier Blanc, de Gouges maintained that this article be included to explain to men the benefit they would receive from support of this Declaration against the advice of the Society of the Friends of Truth. Article XIII through article XVI Articles XIII through XVI extend the articles in the Declaration of the Rights of Man to include both women and men in their statements. Article xvii The seventeenth article of the Declaration expresses sexual equality of marriage, and that upon marriage, women and men are found equal in the eyes of the law - this means that upon divorce, property is split evenly between the involved parties, and property can not be seized without reason from women ( just as is the case for men ). Postscript to the Declaration De Gouges opens her postscript to the Declaration with a declaration : `` Woman, wake up ; the tocsin of reason is resounding throughout the universe : acknowledge your rights. '' In her first paragraph, she implores women to consider what they have gained from the Revolution - `` a greater scorn, a greater disdain. '' She maintains that men and women have everything in common, and that women must `` unite under the banner of philosophy. '' She declares that whatever barriers women come up against, it is in their power to overcome those barriers and progress in society. She goes on to describe that `` marriage is the tomb of trust and love '' but fails to write laws that apply to unmarried women - she leaves this to men, but implores men to consider the morally correct thing to do when creating the framework for the education of women. De Gouges then writes a framework social contract ( borrowing from Rousseau ) for men and women, and goes into details about the specifics of the legal ramifications and equality in marriage. In many ways, she reformulates Rousseau 's Social Contract with a focus that obliterates the gendered conception of a citizen and creates the conditions that are necessary for both parties to flourish. According to de Gouges 's journal, what ails government are fixed social hierarchies that are impossible to maintain. What heals a government is an equal balance of powers and a shared virtue. This is consistent with her continuing approval of a constitutional monarchy. Marriages are to be voluntary unions by equal rights - bearing partners who hold property and children mutually and dispense of same by agreement. All children produced during this union have the right to their mother 's and father 's name, `` from whatever bed they come. '' Reactions to the Declaration In response to the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, many of the radicals of the Revolution immediately suspected de Gouges of treason. The Jacobins ( led by Robespierre ), upon seeing that the Declaration was addressed to the Queen, suspected de Gouges ( as well as her allies in the Girondists ) of being Royalists. After de Gouges attempted to post a note demanding a plebiscite to decide between three forms of government ( which included a Constitutional monarchy ), the Jacobins quickly tried and convicted her of treason. She was sentenced to execution by the guillotine, and was one of many `` political enemies '' to the state of France claimed by the Reign of Terror. At the time of her death, the Parisian press no longer mockingly dismissed her as harmless. While journalists and writers argued that her programs and plans for France had been irrational, they also noted that in proposing them she had wanted to be a `` statesman. '' Her crime, the Feuille du Salut public reported, was that she had `` forgotten the virtues which belonged to her sex. '' In the misogynistic environment of Jacobian Paris, her feminism and political meddlings were a dangerous combination. De Gouges was a strict critic of the principle of equality touted in Revolutionary France because it gave no attention to who it left out, and she worked to claim the rightful place of women and slaves within its protection. By writing numerous plays about the topics of black and women 's rights and suffrage, the issues she brought up were spread not only through France, but also throughout Europe and the newly created United States of America. Reactions in other countries United kingdom In the UK, Mary Wollstonecraft was prompted to write A Vindication of the Rights of Woman : with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects in 1792. This was in response to both de Gouges ' Declaration as well as Charles Maurice de Talleyrand - Périgord 's 1791 address to the French National Assembly, which stated that women should only a receive a domestic education. Wollstonecraft wrote the Rights of Woman to launch a broad attack against sexual double standards and to indict men for encouraging women to indulge in excessive emotion. As opposed to de Gouges, Wollstonecraft does call for equality between the sexes in particular areas of life but does not explicitly state that men and women are equal. Her ambiguous statements regarding the equality of the sexes have made it difficult to classify Wollstonecraft as a modern feminist. Rights of Woman was relatively well received in 1792 England. United States of America While there were no immediate effects in the United States upon publishing of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, it was used extensively in the modeling of the Declaration of Sentiments, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others at the Seneca Falls Convention, held in the summer of 1848. The Declaration of Sentiments, much like the Declaration of the Rights of Woman was written in the style of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, was written in the style of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. Analysis The Debutante ( 1807 ) by Henry Fuseli ; `` Woman, the victim of male social conventions, is tied to the wall, made to sew and guarded by governesses. The picture reflects Mary Wollstonecraft 's views in The Rights of Women ( sic ) ''. In her Declaration, de Gouges is forceful and sarcastic in tone and militant in spirit. Meant to be a document ensuring universal rights, The Declaration of the Rights of Man is exposed as anything but. For de Gouges, the most important expression of liberty was the right to free speech ; she had been exercising that right her whole life. Access to the rostrum was another question, and one that she demanded be put at the forefront of the discussion about women 's rights and suffrage. The Enlightenment 's presumption of the natural rights of humans ( or inalienable rights as in the United States Declaration of Independence ) is in direct contradiction with the beliefs of natural sexual inequality ( sometimes called the `` founding principles of nature '' ). The rights the equality of the French Declaration states, but does not intend, implies, according to de Gouges, the need to be recognized as having a more far - reaching application ; if rights are natural and if these rights are somehow inherent in bodies, then all bodies are deserving of such rights, regardless of any particularities like gender or race. De Gouges generally agreed with Jean - Jacques Rousseau and his understanding of how education of a nation could transform the society in which that nation resided. However, seeing well beyond Rousseau in terms of gender, she argued that the failure of society to educate its women was the sole cause of corruption in government. Her social contract, a direct appropriation of Rousseau, proclaims that the right in marriage to equal property and parental and inheritance rights is the only way to build a society of harmony. At the time of the French Revolution, marriage was the center for political exploitation. In her Social Contract, de Gouges describes marriage as the `` tomb of trust and love '' and the place of `` perpetual tyranny. '' The singly most common site of institutionalized gender inequality, marriage created the conditions for the development of women 's unreliability and capacity for deception. In her Social Contract, many similarities to movements around the world become apparent. Similarly to how Mary Wollstonecraft explains marriage in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ( 1792 ), de Gouges points to female artifice and weakness as a consequence of woman 's powerless place in it. De Gouges, much like Wollstonecraft, attempts to combat societal and educational deficiencies : the vicious cycle which neglects to educate its females and then offers their narrower interests as the reason for the refusal of full citizenship. Both, however, see the resulting fact of women 's `` corruption and weak - mindedness '' as a major source of the problems of society - and therein lies the solution, as well. 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Wolfenbüttel Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe - Ingelfingen Russia Alexander Korsakov Alexander Suvorov Spain Luis Firmin de Carvajal Antonio Ricardos Other significant figures and factions Society of 1789 Jean Sylvain Bailly Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld - Liancourt Isaac René Guy le Chapelier Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès Charles - Maurice de Talleyrand - Périgord Nicolas de Condorcet Feuillants and monarchiens Madame de Lamballe Madame du Barry Louis de Breteuil Loménie de Brienne Charles Alexandre de Calonne de Chateaubriand Jean Chouan Grace Elliott Arnaud de La Porte Jean - Sifrein Maury Jacques Necker François - Marie, marquis de Barthélemy Guillaume - Mathieu Dumas Antoine Barnave Lafayette Alexandre - Théodore - Victor, comte de Lameth Charles Malo François Lameth André Chénier Jean - François Rewbell Camille Jordan Madame de Staël Boissy d'Anglas Jean - Charles Pichegru Pierre Paul Royer - Collard Girondists Jacques Pierre Brissot Roland de La Platière Madame Roland Father Henri Grégoire Étienne Clavière Marquis de Condorcet Charlotte Corday Marie Jean Hérault Jean Baptiste Treilhard Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve Jean Debry Jean - Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil Olympe de Gouges Jean - Baptiste Robert Lindet Louis Marie de La Révellière - Lépeaux The Plain Abbé Sieyès de Cambacérès Charles François Lebrun Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot Philippe Égalité Louis Philippe I Mirabeau Antoine Christophe Merlin de Thionville Jean Joseph Mounier Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours François de Neufchâteau Montagnards Maximilien Robespierre Georges Danton Jean - Paul Marat Camille Desmoulins Louis Antoine de Saint - Just Paul Nicolas, vicomte de Barras Louis Philippe I Louis Michel le Peletier de Saint - Fargeau Jacques - Louis David Marquis de Sade Georges Couthon Roger Ducos Jean - Marie Collot d'Herbois Jean - Henri Voulland Philippe - Antoine Merlin de Douai Antoine Quentin Fouquier - Tinville Philippe - François - Joseph Le Bas Marc - Guillaume Alexis Vadier Jean - Pierre - André Amar Prieur de la Côte - d'Or Prieur de la Marne Gilbert Romme Jean Bon Saint - André Jean - Lambert Tallien Pierre Louis Prieur Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac Antoine Christophe Saliceti Hébertists and Enragés Jacques Hébert Jacques Nicolas Billaud - Varenne Pierre Gaspard Chaumette Charles - Philippe Ronsin Antoine - François Momoro François - Nicolas Vincent François Chabot Jean Baptiste Noël Bouchotte Jean - Baptiste - Joseph Gobel François Hanriot Jacques Roux Stanislas - Marie Maillard Charles - Philippe Ronsin Jean - François Varlet Theophile Leclerc Claire Lacombe Pauline Léon Gracchus Babeuf Sylvain Maréchal Others Charles X Louis XVI Louis XVII Louis XVIII Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien Louis Henri, Prince of Condé Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé Marie Antoinette Napoléon Bonaparte Lucien Bonaparte Joseph Bonaparte Joseph Fesch Joséphine de Beauharnais Joachim Murat Jean Sylvain Bailly Jacques - Donatien Le Ray Guillaume - Chrétien de Malesherbes Talleyrand Thérésa Tallien Gui - Jean - Baptiste Target Catherine Théot List of people associated with the French Revolution Influential thinkers Les Lumières Beaumarchais Edmund Burke Anacharsis Cloots Charles - Augustin de Coulomb Pierre Claude François Daunou Diderot Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson Antoine Lavoisier Montesquieu Thomas Paine Jean - Jacques Rousseau Abbé Sieyès Voltaire Mary Wollstonecraft Cultural impact La Marseillaise French Tricolour Liberté, égalité, fraternité Marianne Bastille Day Panthéon French Republican Calendar Cult of the Supreme Being Cult of Reason Temple of Reason Sans - culottes Metric system Phrygian cap Women in the French Revolution Symbolism in the French Revolution Historiography of the French Revolution Influence of the French Revolution Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Woman_and_of_the_Female_Citizen&oldid=847451749 '' Categories : 1791 events of the French Revolution 1791 documents Feminism and history Women 's rights in France Hidden categories : CS1 maint : Uses authors parameter Use dmy dates from May 2011 Articles containing French - 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Question: who wrote the declaration of the rights of woman and the female citizen
Answer: French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges