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LADIES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Abigail Adams, Madame Geoffrin,
Olympe de Gouges and Mary
Wollstonecraft:
What They Had to Say about
Government and Society
The women of the 1600s and 1700s did not share the same rights as men. Still, the ideas of the Enlightenment encouraged women to push the boundaries of what was acceptable for women. Some hosted salons, while others began actively seeking equality with men. Here are a few of the Ladies of the Enlightenment…
ABIGAIL ADAMS
* felt insecure because of her own lack of education.
* spoke out for the right of women to get an education
* Supported the Patriots during the American
Revolution
• married to John Adams, the second president
• Mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president
“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment [start] a Rebellion.” “[the ladies] will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice.”
MADAME GEOFFRIN • One of the most
famous
salonnieres
• Hosted two
salons a week
• Supported the
Encyclopedists,
a group of men
who created the
first
encyclopedia
Madame Geoffrin’s motto was “Donner et pardonner” which means “to give and be forgiven.”
“Do not allow grass to grow on the road of friendship.”
OLYMPE DE GOUGES
• became an important
writer and social
reformer.
• passionate about equal
rights for women.
• believed that women
should be able to vote,
hold office, own property,
and even serve in the
military.
• published the
Declaration of the Rights
of Women and the
Female Citizen, her
answer to the
Declaration of the Rights
of Man and of the Citizen.
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"Woman has the right to mount the scaffold; she must equally have the right to mount the rostrum.”
“Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.”
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* an English writer
who was an early
leader in the fight
for women’s rights.
• believed that
education was
the best way for
women to achieve
equality and
freedom.
• Her ideas helped
to inspire other
women to fight
for equality with
men.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
I do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Let women share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of men, for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.