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Women's rights and the French Revolution : a biography of Olympe de Gouges / Sophie Mousset ; translated from the French by Joy Poirel.
Van Pelt Library HQ1615.G68 M6813 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mousset, Sophie.
- Standardized Title:
- Olympe de Gouges et les droits de la femme. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Gouges, Olympe de, 1748-1793.
- Gouges, Olympe de.
- Feminists--France--Biography.
- Feminists.
- Women revolutionaries.
- France.
- Women revolutionaries--France--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 108 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, [2007]
- Summary:
- Sent to the guillotine for publishing her "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen" in 1791, Olympe de Gouges advocated rights for women that foreshadowed western societal concerns by 150 years. Sophie Mousset's is the first biography of this astonishing, little-known woman visionary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-108).
- ISBN:
- 0765803453
- 9780765803450
- OCLC:
- 65198066
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