1. Women in France
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. ... He argued that natural rights should be applied to all human beings, without distinctions of gender, because in nature all persons are equal. ... To deprive half the human race of the right to assist in the making of laws was in violation of the principle of equality of rights and an act of tyranny. ... In 1788 she published a pamphlet expressing the hope that women would play a key role in the fo...
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