ACS 400 Lecture 2: lecture 2
16 Nov 2016
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Petition of women of the third estate to the king: Women held a meeting with the estates general to protest the ongoing sexism. Didn"t have rights to meet as a group, draft grievance, or vote. In this passage women addressed their feelings to the king not wishes to overpower the men"s authority but to demand for education. Demanded to be free of public harassment (the assumption that they are sex workers is common) If we have education we will become better wives, workers and mother . Have nothing to lose (no respect, wealth, job) Abbe emmanuel joseph sieyes changed the common discussion of voting in the up and coming estates general into a critique of the french political and social inequities and privilege of nobility. Representatives were towns people with backgrounds in law. The issue was the french social order at home. It has been nothing in the political order up until his time.
