In her 1791 pamphlet Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, French writer and social reformer Olympe de Gouges argued that women have the same rights as men. She wrote it in response to the 1789 document Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the [Male] Citizen, which supported equality and liberty but did not give women equal political citizenship in Revolutionary France. Gouges also argued that children born outside marriage should receive the same fair treatment as “legitimate” children in inheritance matters.
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