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Topic: The Rights of Women

During the French Revolution a number of men and women began to argue in favor of granting women full civic and legal rights. In France this was taken up by Condorcet and Olympes de Gouge; in Britain by Mary Wollstonecraft. During the nineteenth century, whilst a Member of Parliament, John Stuart Mill, argued for the same thing.

6 Titles in this Group:

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author: Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, translator: Alice Drysdale Vickery On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship 1790
author: Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet Sur l’admission des femmes au droit au cité 1790
author: Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects 1792
author: John Stuart Mill, author: Harriet Taylor, editor: John M. Robson, introduction: Stefan Collini The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXI - Essays on Equality, Law, and Education (Subjection of Women) 1825
author: John Stuart Mill On Liberty and The Subjection of Women (1879 ed.) 1859
author: John Stuart Mill The Subjection of Women (1878 ed.) 1869