Question

the role of women in French revolution in points

Answer 1

Historians since the late 20th century have debated how women shared in the French Revolution and what long-term impact it had on French women. Women had no political rights in pre-Revolutionary France; they were considered "passive" citizens; forced to rely on men to determine what was best for them. That changed dramatically in theory as there seemingly were great advances in feminism. Feminism emerged in Paris as part of a broad demand for social and political reform. The women demanded equality to men and then moved on to a demand for the end of male domination. Their chief vehicle for agitation were pamphlets and women's clubs, especially the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women. However, the Jacobin (radical) element in power abolished all the women's clubs in October 1793 and arrested their leaders. The movement was crushed. Devance explains the decision in terms of the emphasis on masculinity in wartime, Marie Antoinette's bad reputation for feminine interference in state affairs, and traditional male supremacy.[1] A decade later the Napoleonic Code confirmed and perpetuated women's second-class status.

Answer 2

from the very beginning women were active participants in the events which brought about so many important changes in French revolution . they hoped that their involvement would pressure the revolutionary government to introduce measures to improve their lives.Most women of the third estate had vegetables at market ,or were employed as domestic servants in the houses of prosperous people .Most women did not have access to education or job training
in order to discuss and voice thier intersts women started thier own political clubs and newspapers about sixty women's clubs came up in different french cities many prominent women were arrested and a number of them were arrested.It was finally in 1946 that women in france won the right to vote