HISTORY 21B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Manuela Sáenz, Olympe De Gouges, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Women played key roles throughout the history we are studying. The struggle for women"s civic rights made great shifts in this period. After the revolutions of 1848, the demand for women"s political rights takes a significant leap. French revolution - rights of man and citizen. Women had no status outside of marriage. Women can hold property and inherit equally. Britain mary wollstonecraft - vindication of the rights of woman. Declaration of rights of woman and citizeness 1791. Marriage is the tomb of trust and love. The married woman can with impunity give bastards to her husband, and also give them the wealth which does not belong to them. The woman who is unmarried has only one feeble right; ancient and inhuman laws refuse to her for her children the right to the name and the wealth of their father. B. quito, 1797 - illegitimate child of nobleman. Love affair with simon bolivar saved his life.
