Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen: References & Edit History
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John R. Cole, Between the Queen and the Cabby: Olympe de Gouges’s Rights of Woman (2011), contains the first full English translation of the document. Sophie Mousset, Women’s Rights and the French Revolution: A Biography of Olympe de Gouges (2007; originally published in French, 2003), translated by Joy Poirel, is a useful resource and the first book-length biography of Gouges. Darline Gay Levy, Harriet Branson Applewhite, and Mary Durham Johnson (eds.), Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789–1795 (1979), contains selected documents translated with notes and commentary.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Added media and revised for style. | Oct 30, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| Title changed from "Declaration of the Rights of Women" to "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the [Female] Citizen"; "de Gouges" changed to "Gouges." | Jan 09, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Declaration of the Rights of Women and Women-Citizen. | Nov 03, 2015 | ||
| New article added. | Jul 18, 2014 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Jul 18, 2014 |
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