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Extrait :Madame,Peu faite au langage que l’on tient aux Rois, je n’emploierai point l’adulation des Courtisans pour vous faire hommagede cette singulière production. Mon but, Madame, est de vous parler franchement ; je n’ai pas attendu pour m’exprimerainsi, l’époque de la Liberté ; je me suis montrée avec la même énergie dans un temps où l’aveuglement des Despotespunissait une si noble audace.Lorsque tout l’Empire vous accusait et vous rendait resp...

Olympe de Gouges, 1789'da Erkek Hakları Bildirgesi’ne eşdeğer bir Kadın Hakları Bildirgesi önerdi ve burada tüm erkek ayrıcalıklarının kaldırılması çağrısında bulundu.SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR“Ey erkek, adil olmayı becerebilir misin? Bu soruyu bir kadın soruyor sana! En azından bu hakkını yok sayamazsın onun. Söyle bana, kim verdi sana benim cinsiyetimi ezen egemenlik hakkını? Gücün mü? Yeteneklerin mi? Yaratıcının bilgeliğine başvur; eğer cesaretin varsa yakınlaşmayı ister göründ...

En 1793, la escritora de la primera reivindicación de los derechos de la mujer, Olympe de Gouges, fue guillotinada en la actual Place de la Concorde de París. En plena Revolución francesa, de Gouges se convierte en una de las intelectuales más osadas de su tiempo: empuñaba su pluma para escribir tratados, diatribas, ensayos epistolares e incluso teatro abolicionista, enfrentando los incesantes sabotajes de sus pares políticos y literarios.Estos escritos, que ella misma imprimía en ...

Madame,Peu faite au langage que l’on tient aux Rois, je n’emploierai point l’adulation des Courtisans pour vous faire hommagede cette singulière production. Mon but, Madame, est de vous parler franchement ; je n’ai pas attendu pour m’exprimerainsi, l’époque de la Liberté ; je me suis montrée avec la même énergie dans un temps où l’aveuglement des Despotespunissait une si noble audace.Lorsque tout l’Empire vous accusait et vous rendait responsable de ses c...

Women played a major part in the French Revolution of 1789, but have received very little recognition for their contributions. The many claims and protests put forth by women at that time were suppressed, women's clubs were banned, and Olympe de Gouges, a leading contemporary advocate for women's rights, was silenced and has since remained an obscure figure. This book is the first biography of this astonishing woman.After boldly publishing her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the ...

Olympe de Gouges, though a well-known historical figure, has not been investigated as a philosopher until quite recently. Yet, many of her writings have philosophical import, whether they are written in the genre of the philosophical treatise, drama or political pamphlets. In the three main sections, the author gives an overview of some of her arguments, showing their originality and their relevance to debates contemporary to her and to us. In the introduction, the author addresses the que...

Olympe de Gouges has been called illiterate, immoral, and insane while being mentioned solely for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and [the female] Citizen. This book uncovers her radical views of the self, the family, and the state and accounts for her vision of increasing female agency and decreasing the entitlements of aristocratic males.

HALLOWEEN Ultimate Collection gathers more than 550 tales of terror, spectral encounter, Gothic suspense, and uncanny mystery into an expansive map of the macabre imagination. Its range extends from antiquarian ghost stories and haunted houses to psychological horror, occult speculation, grotesque satire, vampire lore, and scientific romance. Classic Gothic atmospheres coexist with fin-de-siècle decadence, American weird fiction, folkloric marvels, and sharply comic supernatural pieces, ma...

DEEP, DARK & UNSETTLING gathers more than a century of Gothic experimentation into a capacious archive of terror, wonder, and psychological disturbance. Its contents range from foundational castle romances, spectral ballads, and Faustian tales to detective mysteries, decadent fantasies, imperial nightmares, and proto-science-fictional horrors. Recurring images—ruined houses, forbidden manuscripts, doubles, revenants, persecuted heroines, and corrupted inheritances—demonstrate how Gothic wr...

Olympe de Gouges was the most important fighter for women's rights you've never heard of.An activist and writer in revolutionary Paris, she published 'The Declaration of the Rights of Women' in 1791, and was beheaded two years later, her articulate demands for equality proving too much for their time.Over one hundred and fifty years later, the key statements of her declaration were internationally endorsed by the United Nations in its Declaration on the Elimination of Dis...

Santa's Christmas Library gathers more than four hundred seasonal narratives, poems, carols, legends, and illustrated selections into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Moving from folktale and devotional verse to domestic realism, fantasy, satire, and moral fable, the volume traces the holiday's literary transformations across languages and centuries. Canonical Christmas narratives stand beside fairy tales, hymns, children's literature, and lesser-known period pieces, while such la...

Down the Chimney gathers more than a hundred Christmas narratives into an unusually capacious map of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century holiday literature. Fairy tale, domestic sketch, moral fable, realist vignette, comic anecdote, supernatural tale, and children's fantasy converge around winter's rituals of generosity, memory, hospitality, and renewal. Illustrated and transnational in scope, the volume moves from hearth-centered sentiment to darker meditations on poverty, estrangemen...