Olympe de Gouges Was Guillotined for Demanding Women’s Rights

Hanna Nina Jameson posted this informative history thread on twitter about French playwright and political activist Olympe de Gouges. She wrote about women’s rights and abolitionism but was executed for supposedly “abandoning the cares of her household to get involved in politics and commit crimes. She died on the guillotine for having forgotten the virtues that suit her sex.” As always, f*ck the patriarchy.

Olympe de Gouges Was Guillotined for Demanding Womens Rights
Olympe de Gouges Was Guillotined for Demanding Womens Rights

Olympe de Gouges Was Guillotined for Demanding Womens Rights
Olympe de Gouges Was Guillotined for Demanding Womens Rights
Olympe de Gouges Was Guillotined for Demanding Womens Rights

(here is the link to French Feminists and the Rights of ‘Man’)

Source: Hanna Nina Jameson

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