The Rights of Woman
Author: Olympe de Gouges
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13:
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Tolerance
Author: Caroline Warman
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2016-01-04
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1783742038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common a passionate commitment to equality, freedom, and tolerance. Each text resonates powerfully with the issues our world faces today. Tolerance was first published by the Société française d’étude du dix-huitième siècle (the French Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations in January 2015 as an act of solidarity and as a response to the surge of interest in Enlightenment values. With the support of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, it has now been translated by over 100 students and tutors of French at Oxford University.
Tales of Two Planets
Author: John Freeman
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0525505717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilding 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.
Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795
Author: Darline Gay Levy
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780252008559
DOWNLOAD EBOOK200 years ago, the women of revolutionary Paris were demanding legal equality in marriage; educational opportunities for girls; and public instruction, licensing, and support for midwives. This title presents sixty documents which focuses on these and other socioeconomic struggles by women and their impact on the French Revolutionary era.
Reading Olympe de Gouges
Author: C. Sherman
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-05-31
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1137343060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOlympe de Gouges has been called illiterate, immoral, and insane while being mentioned solely for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and [the female] Citizen. This book uncovers her radical views of the self, the family, and the state and accounts for her vision of increasing female agency and decreasing the entitlements of aristocratic males.
Women's Rights and the French Revolution
Author: Sophie Mousset
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-28
Total Pages: 119
ISBN-13: 135147118X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen 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.
Women's Rights and the French Revolution
Author: Sophie Mousset
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2011-12-31
Total Pages: 119
ISBN-13: 1412809908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen 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.
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
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLivre 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.
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
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a comprehensive review of key test topics, test-taking strategies, and two full-length practice tests with detailed answers explanations.
Citoyennes
Author: Annie K. Smart
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011-12-23
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1644531046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDid women have a civic identity in eighteenth-century France? In Citoyennes: Women and the Ideal of Citizenship in Eighteenth-Century France, Annie Smart contends that they did. While previous scholarship has emphasized the ideal of domestic motherhood or the image of the republican mother, Smart argues persuasively that many pre-revolutionary and revolutionary texts created another ideal for women–the ideal of civic motherhood. Smart asserts that women were portrayed as possessing civic virtue, and as promoting the values and ideals of the public sphere. Contemporary critics have theorized that the eighteenth-century ideal of the Republic intentionally excluded women from the public sphere. According to this perspective, a discourse of “Rousseauean” domestic motherhood stripped women of an active civic identity, and limited their role to breastfeeding and childcare. Eighteenth-century France marked thus the division between a male public sphere of political action and a female private sphere of the home. Citoyennes challenges this position and offers an alternative model of female identity. This interdisciplinary study brings together a variety of genres to demonstrate convincingly that women were portrayed as civic individuals. Using foundational texts such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile, or on Education (1762), revolutionary gouaches of Lesueur, and vaudeville plays of Year II of the Republic (1793/1794), this study brilliantly shows that in text and image, women were represented as devoted to both the public good and their families. In addition, Citoyennes offers an innovative interpretation of the home. Through re-examining sphere theory, this study challenges the tendency to equate the home with private concerns, and shows that the home can function as a site for both private life and civic identity. Citoyennes breaks new ground, for it both rectifies the ideal of domestic Rousseauean motherhood, and brings a fuller understanding to how female civic identity operated in important French texts and images. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
