1. Women in France
... of citizenship. Women, like domestic servants, were not considered autonomous human beings; they were nature's 'passive' citizens, and their rights were rendered invisible in the constitutions. The most eloquent and influential male advocate of women's rights was the philosopher Condorcet. In the Essai sur l'admissoin des femmes ... of citizenship), published in July of 1790, he argued the need to expand the principals outlined in the Declarations of the Rights of Man to include the rights of women. He argued that natural rights should be applied to all human beings, without distinctions ...
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