Contrary to common belief, women were important contributors to the popular movement during the French Revolution. ... The majority of men believed that women's participation in government was both unnecessary and redundant. ... The cahiers des doleances also demonstrated how a woman's social class determined which issues she chose to embrace and fight. ... Anger with their passive role in constructing the cahiers, irritated with the municipal government, annoyed with the stalled constitutional revolution, and fed up with the shortage of food, all fuelled their discontentment. .....

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