The French Revolution and the Problem of Civil Rights for Women: Why Did they Have to Stay at Home? Cover Image

Rewolucja francuska a kwestia przyznania kobietom pełni praw obywatelskich – dlaczego Francuzki musiały zostać w domu?
The French Revolution and the Problem of Civil Rights for Women: Why Did they Have to Stay at Home?

Author(s): Tomasz Wysłobocki
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Gender history, Evaluation research, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: The French Revolution; women, citizen rights; equality; family;

Summary/Abstract: The Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen of 1789 made all French citizens free and equal in the eyes of the law. However, it soon came to light that one half of the nation was deprived of civil rights in the name of the common good and socalled nature’s will. This article focuses on the speech of Jean Pierre André Amar who, in the autumn of 1793, presented on behalf of the revolutionary Committee of Public Safety a report which would soon become the basis for the definitive exclusion of women from the sovereign body and their dismissal from the political sphere.

  • Issue Year: 4/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 141-156
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish