Women's Rights During The French Revolution

The era of the French Revolution was a controversial time of violence, freedom, and hardships. Blood was shed in the name of new rights that should be brought to the people instead of it’s ruling class and monarchies. Their struggle has been referenced time and time again and the call for revolution has been echoed throughout history, although, there is one groups call for new freedoms that has been swept under the rug. This group is the women and their supporters that were inspired by the revolution and it’s call. Women’s lives during the nineteenth century was full of dehumanization, hardships, and a lack of appreciation for their efforts, yet these women found the strength to challenge the institutions and social constructs that held them

They were expected to give up their personal pursuits and personality development, an education was rare, and some men went as far to look for women that weren’t educated at all. They were considered below human, creatures meant to bear children, which they didn’t even have rights to, the law disregarding them. These are only the beginning of their struggles in their daily lives.
For many women, their daily lives began with motherhood and the pressure of giving their husbands a family. Married women were usually expected to give up the job that they held before marriage, and then their singular purpose was to tend to the family and household duties. While some women were content in this role, for most women care about the welfare of their children as well as their futures, society demanded that they shouldn’t try to include themselves into politics because of these duties. “Don't worry about the

Women were mainly paraded around for the pleasure of the husband, and for later use in family life. While not all men demanded their wives to remain a caretaker, many often expressed that women with an education were unbearable. “Men like ourselves need a woman of little breeding and education who is nothing but gaiety and natural wit, because a woman of that sort can charm and please us like an agreeable animal to which we may become quite attached” ( Goncourt, On Female Authority). Prejudices such as this were often considered normal in the nineteenth century, and despite the pushback against this treatment these biases stubbornly