Those rights, as well as the related duties and responsibilities to society, are outlined in the remainder of the document.įollowing the preamble, Gouges included 17 articles outlining the basic rights that should be extended to women, including the right to liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression the right to participate fully in the making of laws that they are to abide by the right to participate at all levels of government and the right to voice opinions in public. It stated that women, like their male counterparts, have natural, inalienable, and sacred rights. The preamble of Gouges’s pamphlet emphasized that women must be included among those considered part of France’s National Assembly.

Modeled on the 1789 document known as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen), Gouges’s manifesto asserted that women are equal to men in society and, as such, entitled to the same citizenship rights.

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