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Published: 01.12.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Women of the French Revolution', 1.
Extract

Women had won rights in marriage, property, and education. Though women were denied political rights during the revolution but during this time no women anywhere shared political power unlike the women of France. During the revolution women from the middle class greeted the restoration of their natural rights as wives and mothers to participate in society as a man's companion. Poor women or women from the Third Estate went on bread riots. …

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