Legitimizing the Role of Women in the process of State Building in Post-Revolutionary France
Legitimizing the Role of Women in the process of State Building in Post-Revolutionary France

Summary/Abstract: This abstract analyses the intrinsic character of the legitimate role of revolutionary women in the process of institution building in postrevolutionary France as the pragmatic cornerstone of the institutionnalisation of women rights in the course of the 19th and 20th century. There was a period of gender conflict in the French society. The masculine approach of womanhood was the leading theory in the societal circle of power where the integrity of women as human beings was undermined. Among the many strong prominent leaders there were: Olympe de Gouges, Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Veil that elevated the position of women in the society by denouncing the perennial status quo of male absolutism. The Women’s March for the first time in history forced a king to capitulate. A royal dynasty was destroyed only by the intelligent actions of women activists such Olympe de Gouges, Madame de Steal, Charlotte Corday, Mary Wollstonecraft and most importantly the Women’s March of the members of the Third Estate. This paper will analyse various works of prominent female leaders, but most significantly the core study of the legal foundational scholarship of the articles of the Declaration of the Rights of the Woman and the Female Citizen will be examined, particularly, the scope of emancipation as ‘Citoyenne’ (Female Citizen) and the heroism of Condorcet and Mary Wollstonecraft as pioneers of the established mechanisms for the defence of Women’s human rights.

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