It stated that women, like their male counterparts, have natural, inalienable, and sacred rights. The preamble of Gouges’s pamphlet emphasized that women must be included among those considered part of France’s National Assembly. Modeled on the 1789 document known as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen), Gouges’s manifesto asserted that women are equal to men in society and, as such, entitled to the same citizenship rights.
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