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Women and the Enlightenment

Women and the Enlightenment. Changing views of women’s role in society Role of education Equality . Women and the Enlightenment . Olympe de Gouges. Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Believed that equal rights should be extended to women.

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Women and the Enlightenment

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  1. Women and the Enlightenment

  2. Changing views of women’s role in society Role of education Equality Women and the Enlightenment Olympe de Gouges Mary Wollstonecraft

  3. Mary Wollstonecraft • A Vindication of the Rights of Women. • Believed that equal rights should be extended to women. • Had the same natural rights and intellectual capacity as men.

  4. Wollstonecraft (continued) • The start of modern Women’s rights movement Title page of Wollstonecraft’s Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

  5. Olympe De Gouges • Criticized the French Revolution • The Rights of Women • “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen” • Executed in 1793

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