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1 Women and the Enlightenment

2 Changing views of women’s role in society Role of education Equality Mary Wollstonecraft Olympe de Gouges

3 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.

4 Wollstonecraft (continued) The start of modern Women’s rights movement Title page of Wollstonecraft’s Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

5 Olympe De Gouges Criticized the French Revolution The Rights of Women “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen” Executed in 1793

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