Women Intellectuals in Europe

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  • Mary Cavendish publishes an Absolutist Reaction to the English Civil War: The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World

    Mary Cavendish publishes an Absolutist Reaction to the English Civil War: The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World

    The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World. Margaret Cavendish, 1666. England. Significant as a proposal for absolutist rule based on changing social values. This idea was based on Cavendish's views on gender.
  • Françoise de Graffigny publishes a Liberal Response to Absolutist Patriarchy: Letters From a Peruvian Woman

    Françoise de Graffigny publishes a Liberal Response to Absolutist Patriarchy: Letters From a Peruvian Woman

    Françoise de Graffigny, Letters From a Peruvian Woman. France, 1747. Significant as a use of classical Liberal thought to argue for the emancipation and the end of old order absolutism.
  • Olympe de Gouges Makes a more Moderate Case for Gender Equality by Blending Liberal and Communitarian Thought: Declaration of the Rights of Woman

    Olympe de Gouges Makes a more Moderate Case for Gender Equality by Blending Liberal and Communitarian Thought: Declaration of the Rights of Woman

    Olympe de Gouges. Declaration of the Rights of Woman. France, 1791
  • Communitarian Feminism Offers an Alternative within the New Order

    Communitarian Feminism Offers an Alternative within the New Order

    The Journal of Countess Françoise Krasinska, Great Grandmother of Victor Emmanuel by Klementyna Tanska Hoffmonova. Poland, 1845. Significant as a work of communitarian feminism, which attacks the old order without basing its arguments on liberalism alone. Diversified new order thinking.
  • Split Between Liberalism and Socialism Within the Women's Movement: The Socialist Laws

    Split Between Liberalism and Socialism Within the Women's Movement: The Socialist Laws

    Socialist Laws passed in Germany. 1878. Significant as the cause of the separation between workers and the middle class within the women`s movement in Germany. Led to further diversification within the new order and would create a pressing need for compromise during the 20th century.
  • Rise of Internationalism and Compromise Between Labour and Capital: Report of the Third International Congress of Women

    Rise of Internationalism and Compromise Between Labour and Capital: Report of the Third International Congress of Women

    Report of the Third International Congress of Women, Vienna, July 10-17, 1921. Austria, 1921. Published in Geneva. Significant as an influential document for internationalist feminism, internationalism more broadly and compromise between labour and capital in post-war settlements after WWII.