Between the queen and the cabby : Olympe de Gouges's Rights of woman /
"Students of the French Revolution and of women's right are generally familiar with Olympe de Gouges's bold adaptation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. However, her Rights of Woman has usually been extracted from its literary context and studied without prop...
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Montréal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2011]
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| Series: | McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- A translation of the rights of women
- The dedication. Gouges's devotion to the king and defence of the queen
- Marie-Antoinette's reputation and the counter-revolution
- The declaration. Gouges's patriotism and aristocratic sentiments prior to 1791-- Gouges's declaration and that of the national assembly
- The postamble. The social contract between the man and the woman
- The rights of persons of colour and of blacks
- The addenda and a conclusion. The Addenda
- A conclusion:Gourge's feminism in the context of 1791.