Question

what are the french women hoped for the French revolution??

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.A decade later the Napoleonic Code confirmed and perpetuated women's second-class status.

Answer 2

Women played a large part in the French Revolution. For the most part, women supported the plans and efforts of the men who were leading the revolution. In the cities, bourgeois women formed their own revolutionary groups. The October 1789 march on Versailles consisted largely of women. It was women who were rioting in the bakeries and grocers’ shops. They worked to help the poor in whatever ways they could. They only attended Masses said by priests who supported the Revolution. A woman’s linens were her dowry, some of her most prized possessions intended to last a lifetime, but many women donated their linens to be used for soldiers’ bandages. In one town, women contributed their wedding rings to raise funds to purchase clothing for soldiers. Some compared women revolutionaries to tigresses and vultures eager for blood. But when women requested their own rights and submitted The Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen to the National Convention, they were told women had no part to play in France’s new order.