The Declaration of the Rights of Women
The Declaration of the Rights of Women

Author: Olympe de Gouges

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2018-03-08

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1781575932

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Olympe de Gouges was the most important fighter for women's rights you've never heard of. An activist and writer in revolutionary Paris, she published 'The Declaration of the Rights of Women' in 1791, and was beheaded two years later, her articulate demands for equality proving too much for their time. Over one hundred and fifty years later, the key statements of her declaration were internationally endorsed by the United Nations in its Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, which in turn went on to be legally recognized by nearly every country in the world. This volume presents both of these key texts along with enlightening and inspiring commentary from a host of powerful women, from Virginia Woolf to Hillary Clinton.

Tales of Two Planets
Tales of Two Planets

Author: John Freeman

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0525505717

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Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta, has launched a celebrated international literary magazine, Freeman's, and compiled two acclaimed anthologies that deal with income inequality as it is experienced. In the course of this work, one major theme came up repeatedly: Climate change is making already dire inequalities much worse, devastating further the already devastated. But the problems of climate change are not restricted to those from the less developed world. Galvanized by his conversations with writers and activists around the world, Freeman engaged with some of today's most eloquent storytellers, many of whom hail from the places under the most acute stress--from the capital of Burundi to Bangkok, Thailand. The response has been extraordinary. Margaret Atwood conjures with a dys¬topian future in a remarkable poem. Lauren Groff whisks us to Florida; Edwidge Danticat to Haiti; Tahmima Anam to Bangladesh; Yasmine El Rashidi to Egypt, while Eka Kurniawan brings us to Indonesia, Chinelo Okparanta to Nigeria, and Anuradha Roy to the Himalayas in the wake of floods, dam building, and drought. This is a literary all-points bulletin of fiction, essays, poems, and reportage about the most important crisis of our times.

Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne
Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne

Author: Olympe de Gouges

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2021-06-06

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 2491996502

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Livre conforme au programme du baccalauréat de la classe de première de la voie générale (année scolaire 2021-2022) La "Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne" est publiée le 5 septembre 1791 dans la brochure "Les droits de la femme et de la citoyenne". Il s'agit du premier texte à réclamer l'égalité civile et politique des femmes par rapport aux hommes. Olympe de Gouges pastiche dans celui-ci la "Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen" du 26 août 1789 proclamant que « la femme naît libre et demeure égale en droits à l'homme ». Ce texte s'inscrit dans la tradition de la philosophie des Lumières en élargissant aux femmes la notion de Droits humains posés dans le "Bill of rights" de 1689 (Grande-Bretagne), la "Déclaration d'indépendance des États-Unis d'Amérique" de 1776 et la "Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen" de 1789. Cette édition de qualité est la fidèle retranscription de l'intégralité de la brochure originale de 1791 déposée à la Bibliothèque nationale de France et contenant le préambule, la "Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne" et le postambule. La présente édition a par ailleurs été enrichie de notes additionnelles de l'éditeur, d'une mise en perspective du texte et d'une présentation biographique de l'auteure ainsi que de ses oeuvres. Enfin, le livre s'achève sur la "Préface pour les Dames, ou le Portrait des Femmes", texte précurseur d'Olympe de Gouges, publié en 1788. Olympe de Gouges, femme politique et de lettres, est une pionnière du féminisme et une abolitionniste convaincue. Née en 1748, elle a été exécutée sous le régime de la Convention le 2 novembre 1793. Elle est un symbole de l'égalité des droit civils et politiques pour les défenseur.e.s des droits des femmes. L'intégralité des droits issus de la vente de ce livre sera reversée au fonds de soutien des femmes-auteures.

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Publisher: Odile Jacob

Published:

Total Pages: 681

ISBN-13: 2738192122

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The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France
The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France

Author: Julia V. Douthwaite

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-09-27

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0226160580

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The French Revolution brings to mind violent mobs, the guillotine, and Madame Defarge, but it was also a publishing revolution. Douthwaite explores how the works within this corpus announced the new shapes of literature to come and reveals that vestiges of these stories can be found in novels by the likes of Mary Shelley.

Cracking the AP U. S. History Exam, 2017 Edition
Cracking the AP U. S. History Exam, 2017 Edition

Author: Princeton Review (Firm)

Publisher: Princeton Review

Published: 2016-08

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1101920033

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Provides a comprehensive review of key test topics, test-taking strategies, and two full-length practice tests with detailed answers explanations.

Between the Queen and the Cabby
Between the Queen and the Cabby

Author: John Richard Cole

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0773538860

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In Between the Queen and the Cabby, John Cole provides the first full translation of de Gouges's Rights of Woman and the first systematic commentary on its declaration, its attempt to envision a non-marital partnership agreement, and its support for persons of colour. Cole compares and contrasts de Gouges's two texts, explaining how the original text was both her model and her foil. By adding a proposed marriage contract to her pamphlet, she sought to turn the ideas of the French Revolution into a concrete way of life for women. Further examination of her work as a playwright suggests that she supported equality not only for women but for slaves as well. Cole highlights the historical context of de Gouges's writing, going beyond the inherent sexism and misogyny of the time in exploring why her work did not receive the reaction or achieve the influential status she had hoped for. Read in isolation in the gender-conscious twenty-first century, de Gouges's Rights of Woman may seem ordinary. However, none of her contemporaries, neither the Marquis de Condorcet nor Mary Wollstonecraft, published more widely on current affairs, so boldly attempted to extend democratic principles to women, or so clearly related the public and private spheres. Read in light of her eventual condemnation by the Revolutionary Tribunal, her words become tragically foresighted: "Woman has the right to mount the Scaffold; she must also have that of mounting the Rostrum."

Women's Rights and the French Revolution
Women's Rights and the French Revolution

Author: Sophie Mousset

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 135147118X

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Women played a major part in the French Revolution of 1789, but have received very little recognition for their contributions. The many claims and protests put forth by women at that time were suppressed, women's clubs were banned, and Olympe de Gouges, a leading contemporary advocate for women's rights, was silenced and has since remained an obscure figure. This book is the first biography of this astonishing woman.After boldly publishing her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen in 1791, de Gouges was sent to the guillotine for having had the courage to mount the rostrum on behalf of women. Unlike many who have captured posterity's attention, de Gouges had great sympathy but no indulgence for her sex. Instead of considering her female colleagues as eternal victims, she understood that they were to some extent responsible for their misfortunes, and that if they united and devoted themselves to changing their image, they could become great. De Gouges called for the advent of a new woman, one who would relinquish the nocturnal administering of men.Olympe de Gouges rightly deserves the title of pioneer, prophet, and heroine. This long-overdue biography pays her due homage. It will be of interest to students of the French Revolution, women's studies, and biography.