Olympe de Gouges e Mary Wollstonecraft: pioneirismo na luta pelos direitos das mulheres

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the main characteristics of the thought of Olympe de Gouges and Mary Wollstonecraft, demonstrating their importance for the beginning of the feminist movement and, consequently, the struggle for women's rights. In this sense, the first chapter initially addresses the great work of Olympe de Gouges, the Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizenship, which intended to guarantee several fundamental rights to women, in the midst of the revolutionary context of France at the end of the eighteenth century. The second chapter studies the work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, written by the Englishwoman Mary Wollstonecraft, almost simultaneously with the Declaration of Olympe and which can be considered one of the founding documents of feminism itself.