Feminist movements in France

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Feminist movements in France

• Symantha Tillinghast
• - Chantal

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• Feminism- the doctrine advocating social,
  political, and all other rights of women equal to
  those of men.

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• Most women who yes do believe in women's
  rights dont like to be called feminists because
  it seems like they hate men, and are aggressive
  

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• The feminist movement began to become popular in
  the 1970s

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• In 1971, the Declaration of the Rights of Man
  and the Citizen brought an immediate response
  from writer Olympe de Gouges who amended it as
  the Declaration of the Rights of Men and the
  female citizen

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• if women were accountable to the law they must
  also be given equal responsibility under the law.

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• The fall of the conservative
• Louis- Philippe in
• 1848, gave hope
• to feminists.

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• Eugenie Niboyet founded La voix des femmes
  (The Women's Voice) as the first feminist daily
  newspaper in France socialist and political
  journal

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• The Women's Union for the Defense of Paris and
  Care of the Injured was founded on 11 April 1871.
  The association demanded gender equality, wage
  equality, right of divorce for women, and right
  to professional education for girls. They also
  demanded suppression of the distinction between
  married women, the abolition of prostitution in
  closing the maisons de tolérance, or legal
  official brothels.

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• In 1909, French Feminist Jeanne-Elizabeth
  Schmahl founded the French Union for Women's
  Suffrage to advocate for women's right to vote.

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• 24 March 1944 French women gain the right to vote

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• In May of 1968 the creation of the Women's
  Liberation Movement emerged advocating for the
  rights to contraception and to abortion.

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• Valery Giscard dEstaing was elected President
  and nominated nine women to his government.

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• Simone Veil was
• the first female
• minister

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1974

• Zelensky and Sugier founded the League of Womens
  Rights. They helped get the bill passed for
  abortion in 1975.

Annie Sugier
Anne Zelensky
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• Yvette Roudy passed the 1983 law against sexism

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• Le Barbe is Frances bearded feminists, these
  women wear fake beards because they feel that
  France is a man dominated society.

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Le Barbe

• Le Barbe translate to the beard, but also has
  another meaing of enough is enough.

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• They protested at the Cannes film
• Festival because not enough female
• directors. They also protested at
• Senate meetings.

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2011

• French feminists protested to rid the word
  Mademoiselle from the French language.

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• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vqLJyPNG3Xzk

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Work Cited

• http//jwa.org/encylopedia/article/veil-simone.
• http//www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/101/article_493.
  asp
• http//www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/2
  9/la-barbe-feminism-france
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism_in_France
• http//www.npr.org/2011/09/29/140931817/french-fem
  inists-say-non-to-mademoiselle