women and the enlightenment
DESCRIPTION
Women and the Enlightenment. Changing views of women’s role in society Role of education Equality . Women and the Enlightenment . Olympe de Gouges. Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Believed that equal rights should be extended to women. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Women and the Enlightenment](https://reader036.vdocuments.site/reader036/viewer/2022081520/56815fce550346895dceceb1/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Women and the Enlightenment
![Page 2: Women and the Enlightenment](https://reader036.vdocuments.site/reader036/viewer/2022081520/56815fce550346895dceceb1/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Women and the Enlightenment
• Changing views of
women’s role in society• Role of education• Equality
Mary Wollstonecraft
Olympe de Gouges
![Page 3: Women and the Enlightenment](https://reader036.vdocuments.site/reader036/viewer/2022081520/56815fce550346895dceceb1/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Mary Wollstonecraft
• A Vindication of the Rights of Women.
• Believed that equal rights should be extended to women.
• Had the same natural rights and intellectual capacity as men.
![Page 4: Women and the Enlightenment](https://reader036.vdocuments.site/reader036/viewer/2022081520/56815fce550346895dceceb1/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Wollstonecraft (continued)
• The start of modern
Women’s rights
movementTitle page of Wollstonecraft’s Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
![Page 5: Women and the Enlightenment](https://reader036.vdocuments.site/reader036/viewer/2022081520/56815fce550346895dceceb1/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Olympe De Gouges• Criticized the French
Revolution• The Rights of
Women• “Declaration of the
Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen”• Executed in 1793