OLYMPE DE GOUGES
"One of the first feminists who defended the equality of men and women in all aspects of public and private life"
La O, en honor a Olympe de Gougese. (Francia, 1748 – 1793) Esta escritora es considerada como una de las primeras feministas y en sus trabajos defendió la igualdad entre el hombre y la mujer en todos los aspectos de la vida pública y privada.
Fomentó la idea de que todos somos iguales independientemente del sexo raza o religión, lamentablemente unas ideas que no eran compartidas en esa época y que acabaron llevándola a la guillotina.
Olympe de Gouges (France, 1748 – 1793) was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen” and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism.
Gouges began her prolific career as a playwright in Paris in the 1780s. A passionate advocate of human rights, she was one of France's earliest public opponents of slavery. Her plays and pamphlets spanned a wide variety of issues including divorce and marriage, children's rights, unemployment and social security. De Gouges welcomed the outbreak of the French Revolution but soon became disenchanted when equal rights were not extended to women. In 1791, in response to the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, de Gouges published her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, in which she challenged the practice of male authority and advocated for equal rights for women.
Her increasingly vehement writings, which attacked Maximilien Robespierre's radical Montagnards and the Revolutionary government during the Reign of Terror, led to her eventual arrest and execution by guillotine in 1793.
Olympe de Gougèse (France, 1748 - 1793) était une écrivaine considérée comme l'une des premières féministes. Dans ses œuvres, elle défendait l'égalité entre les hommes et les femmes dans tous les aspects de la vie publique et privée.
Elle a défendu l'idée que nous sommes tous égaux, indépendamment du sexe, de la race ou de la religion, mais malheureusement ces idées n'étaient pas partagées à l'époque et ont fini par la conduire à la guillotine.