que a lei puniu esta conspiradora por ter esquecido as virtudes que pertencem ao seu sexo.No meio de uma revolucao para estender mais direitos aos homens, Olympe de Gouges teve a audacia de argumentar que as mulheres tambem devem se beneficiar.Seus contemporaneos foram claros que seu castigo foi, em parte, para esquecer seu proprio lugar e papel apropriado como uma mulher.Leitura Recomendada:As feministas francesas e os direitos do homemJoan Wallach Scott. Hardcover (tambem em paperback); 1996.Excelente tratamento de Olympe de Gouges na Revolucao Francesa, Jeanne Deroin na Revolucao de 1848, Hubertine Auclert e da Terceira Republica, Madeleine Pelletier no inicio do seculo 20, e as mulheres na Franca, depois de ganhar o voto em 1944. A Historia das Mulheres Vol 4: Emerging Feminismo da Revolucao a Primeira Guerra MundialGenevieve Fraisse e Michelle Perrot, editores Esta traducao de uma excelente historia europeia das mulheres inicia-se com a Revolucao Francesa, inaugurando o periodo moderno. Texto retirado de:http://womenshistory.about.com/od/olympedegouges/a/Olympe-De-Gouges-And-The-Rights-Of-Woman.htmVERSAO ORIGINAL:Olympe de Gouges and the Rights of WomanWomen's Rights in the French RevolutionPor Jone Johnson Lewis Beginning with theFrench Revolution and the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of theCitizen" in 1789, until 1944, French citizenship was limited to males --even though women were active in the French Revolution, and many assumed thatcitizenship was theirs by right of their active participation in that historicliberation battle. Olympe de Gouges, a playwright of some note in Franceat the time of the Revolution, spoke for not only herself but many of the womenof France, when in 1791 she wrote and published the "Declaration of theRights of Woman and of the Citizen". Modeled on the 1789"Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" by the NationalAssembly, de Gouges' Declaration echoed the same language and extended it towomen, as well.As many feminists havedone since, de Gouges both asserted woman's capability to reason and make moraldecisions, and pointed to the feminine virtues of emotion and feeling. Womanwas not simply the same as man, but she was his equal partner./The French version ofthe titles of the two declarations makes this mirroring a bit clearer. InFrench, de Gouges' manifesto was the "Declaration des Droits de la Femmeet de la Citoyenne" -- not just Woman contrasted with Man , but Citoyennecontrasted with Citoyen .Unfortunately, deGouges assumed too much. She assumed she had the right to even act as amember of the public and to assert the rights of women by authoring such adeclaration. She violated boundaries that most of the revolutionaryleaders wanted to preserve.Among the challenges inde Gouges' Declaration was the assertion that women, as citizens, had the rightto free speech, and therefore had the right to reveal the identity of thefathers of their children -- a right which women of the time were not assumedto have. She assumed a right of children born out of legitimate marriageto full equality to those born in marriage: this called into question theassumption that only men had the freedom to satisfy their sexual desire outsideof marriage, and that such freedom on the part of men could be exercisedwithout fear of corresponding responsibility.It also called intoquestion the