The Rights of Women
About this Collection
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.
Members:
- On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet)
- BOLL 33: Mary Wollstonecraft, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792) (Mary Wollstonecraft)
- BOLL 50: Condorcet and Olympe de Gouges, “The Rights of Women” (1790-91) (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet)
- Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, 2 vols. (Harriet Martineau)
- On Liberty and The Subjection of Women (1879 ed.) (John Stuart Mill)
- The Subjection of Women (1878 ed.) (John Stuart Mill)
- Sur l’admission des femmes au droit au cité (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet)
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)