Feminism

• In July 1790 (post French Revolution) Marquis de Condorcet published a newspaper article in support of full political rights for women. This created a group called the Cercle Social which launched a campaign for women's rights in 1790-91.
• Marie Gouze, who wrote under the pen name Olympe de Gouges and was anti-slavery, published the Declaration of the Rights of Women in 1791. It was modelled on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and followed the same structure to show how women had been excluded from its promises.
• Despite protests, women never gained full political rights during the French Revolution. The most dramatic act of resistance was the assassination of deputy Jean-Paul Marat by Charlotte Corday in 1793.
• The Society of Revolutionary Republican Women was established in Paris in May 1793. The party aimed to gain political education for themselves but did not demand full rights for women.
• The revolutionary governments established the rights for divorce and granted girls equal rights to the inheritance of family property. In 1791 a newspaper responded to Condorcet by a view by Rosseau that nature determines different but equal rights for women.
• In 1793 Olympe de Gouges was put to death for suggesting that a popular referendum should decide the future of the country rather than the National Convention.
• At the end of the Decade of the revolution, Constance Pipelet offered her views on its impact on women. Although she did not demand equal rights, she suggested that women deserved more education and opportunities.
• The characteristics of liberal feminism are equal sexual liberty and a separation of sex and romance, equal access to education, rights to private property and divorece.
• During Charlotte Perkins Gilman's infancy, her father moved out and abandoned his wife and children, and the remainder of her childhood was spent in poverty.
• "Rest cure treatment" was a medical treatment popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries primarily for women suffering from symptoms like fatigue, anxiety, and depression. Perkins-Gilman found it oppressive and demeaning.
• In 1903 Charlotte Perkins Gilman published a non-fiction book "The Home: Its Work and Influence". In this influential work, Gilman explores the role of the home in society and its impact on individuals, particularly women. She challenges traditional gender roles and argues for greater autonomy and fulfillment for women beyond domestic responsibilities. Gilman critiques the notion of the home as solely a woman's domain and advocates for social and economic reforms to empower women and improve their well-being.