![]() ![]() First, she asks that we consider how certain ideas and opinions are used to deny women’s rights. In making this apparently unlikely connection, de Gouges makes three fundamental points about CRs. 1 Under this right, she subsumes a woman’s right to challenge societal norms of silence imposed on unmarried mothers, and a women’s entitlement to demand responsible fatherhood. Her version of Article 11, on freedom of expression, is radical. Point by point, she reformulated the original declaration, highlighting male bias in its conception of ‘the citizen’ and accusing it of ‘scorn for the rights of women.’ De Gouges understood the power of language and communication. ![]() In it she rewrote each of the 17 articles of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen - a key text of the French Revolution. In 1791, Olympe de Gouges published her Declaration of theRights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. ![]()
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