![]() ![]() In it, she writes that man and woman should unite for common preferences such as pooling wealth together instead of man carrying all the wealth and controlling what happens with it. She proposes that in the meantime women prepare for this “through national education, the restoration of morals, and conjugal conventions”.ĭe Gouge wrote up and “Form for a Social Contract Between Man and Woman”. She also realizes that men will have to deal with this matter and women have to wait for that to happen. However, if a woman is unmarried, her children cannot receive any of their father’s wealth nor their name. De Gouge brings up the contradiction that a married woman can have bastard children who and they will still benefit from their father’s wealth and also their name. ![]() De Gouge encourages women to stand up against this false superiority and unite to gain the rights women deserve. Woman were treated as though inferior, French legislators taking the position that there was nothing in common between men and women. When “man” became free from the Revolution, he turned injustice onto woman. ![]() She questions what benefits woman gained from the Revolution. ![]() Olympe de Gouge tests the Declaration of the Rights of Man with her own Declaration of the Rights of Woman. ![]()
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