Women's Rights During The French Revolution

It is assumed that women’s movement appeared in the late of the XVIII during the bourgeois revolutions, the slogan "Freedom, Equality, Fraternity!" appeared. The idea of equality led to think women about the reasons for their subordinate position.
The first feminists were looking for the causes of the oppressed position of women and their dependence on men. They found out, that they are dependent both on law, social and economical sphere s. Their views were formed into the feminist ideology and later into feminist theory. The first experience of women’s struggle for their rights acquired in France. There were various women’s clubs, unions, who required government to improve the situation of women in declarations and petitions. The first feminist declaration was written in 1791 by French activist and playright
In this declaration she claimed, that the right of freedom and the right of equal citizenship can not belong to men only, which is unlikely for equality to be achieved if half of the society (women) is deprived of the privileges enjoyed by the other half (men) and required to provide all civil, including voting rights, and the ability to hold public office to women. De Gouges declared "Women have the right to mount the scaffold, they must also have the right to mount the speaker's rostrum" (Camille Naishe, 1991:p.137). The phrase was prophetic: in 1793 in the midst of revolutionary terror, she was arrested on false charges and sent to the guillotine. In the same year a decree to close all women’s clubs was adopted and in 1795 when conservative