Eighteenth-century British feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
she is a female author who wrote a Declaration of the rights of women and the female citizen. in it she insisted that women should have the same rights as men but the National assemble ignored her demands.
Olympe de Gouges wrote a "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen" in 1791, declaring that women were also citizens and should have rights equal to those of men. She was then_________________. Elected to office.
This was written in response to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord's views that women only need a domestic education. It argues that women deserve an education in par with their societal position, allowing women to not be just mere wives, but companions of their husbands.