1. Women in France
... stage were women included with in the definitions 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 au droit de cite (Essay on the admissions ... of women to the rights of citizenship), published in July of 1790, he argued the need to expand the principals outlined in the Declarations of the Rights of Man ... ...
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