Part F) Images

1) Parisian women ran these salons.

18th century Salons.

2) 1558 Queen Elizabeth I of England. She was a powerful and loved leader of England.

3) 1789 Marie Antoinette. She was Queen of France during the French Revolution, married to Louis XVI.

4) 1789- Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. This document was great in that it outlined the rights all men should have as equals, but failed to put females into the mix.

5) 1789- March on Versailles. Thousands of women who were pissed off at the scarcity and price of bread bonded together to form a very powerful and successful march on the palace of Versailles.

6) 1818- Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein. To this day still one of the most popular stories of all times, Mary Shelley really earned respect not only for herself but for all female authors with this book.

7) 18th century- Olympe de Gouges. Olympe was a fighter for womens rights, she even called for a demand of womens equality.

8) 1713 Pragmatic Sanction. This document gave Maria Theresa the right to rule even though she was female, she became the first female of the Habsburg family to rule.

9) 18th century- Mary Montague. Mary was not only a womens rights activist but also brought the small pox vaccine to Europe.

10) 1516- Utopia. In this book by Thomas More, he describes a perfect society, which includes equality of the sexes.