The women gave whatever they had to the spirit of the revolutionary times; taking personal issues as well as the same issues their husbands took on. For this reason, a woman's social class usually determined which issues she chose to embrace and fight for. The status of women did undergo significant instability in the years between 1789 and 1804, and at one point they made great strides in that women had obtained the legal right to marry without parental consent, initiate divorce, name the father of an illegitimate child and secure monetary compensation for the seduction, and own property.

In Counter Revolutionary Women, Olwen H. Hufton expresses her intention to show that women's response

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