Did Women Have a Revolution?

This PPT contains data about Did Women Have a Revolution?, What Were Their Problems?, What was the Conditions of Women Before Revolution?, Did the Demands of the Women's were Fulfilled? & The Life of the Revolutionary Women's.

1. M . S . KAWAR INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

2. YEAR=2014-15 CLASS=IX SUBJECT=S.S.T. FORMATIVE ASSESMENT TOPIC=DID WOMEN HAVE A REVOLUTION SUBBMITED TO=RITESH MADAM SUBBMITED BY=MEGHNA MEWARA

3. PREFACE DID WOMEN HAVE A REVOLUTION ? WHAT WERE THEIR PROBLEMS ? WHAT WAS THE CONDITION OF WOMEN BEFORE THE REVOLUTION ? WHAT WAS THE CONDITION OF WOMEN AFTER THE REVOLUTION ? DID THE DEMANDS OF THE WOMENS WERE FULFILLED ? THE LIFE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WOMANS .

4. DID WOMENS HAVE A REVOLUTION ? YES, T HE WOMEN HAVE A REVOLUTION. IN THIS REVOLUTION ALL THE WOMENS HAVE PARTICIPATED ACTIVELY. TO ENCOURAGE THE WOMENS THEY HAD STARTED THEIR OWN POLITICAL CLUBS AND NEWSPAPERS. AFTER THIS SIXTY WOMEN’S CLUB CAME UP IN DIFFERENT FRENCH CITIES.

5. PARISIAN WOMEN ON THEIR WAY TO VERSAILLES

6. WHAT WERE THEIR PROBLEMS ? THEIR PROBLEMS WERE THE OPPOSING MEN. THE WOMENS CARE FOR THEIR FAMILIES,THAT IS,COOK,FETCH WATER,QUEUE UP FOR BREAD AND LOOK AFTER THE CHILDRENS. DURING THE REVOLUTION THE WOMENS WERE IMPRISONED AND MANY OF THEM WERE EXECUTED. THE MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT HAD SAID THAT ‘ I DO NOT WISH THEM TO HAVE POWER OVER MEN;BUT OVER THEMSELVES’.

7. OPPOSING MEN Jean-Jacques Rousseau

8. OPPOSING MEN Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette

9. Marie Antoinette was severely criticized for her separate residences.

10. WHAT WAS THE CONDITION OF WOMEN BEFORE FRENCH REVOLUTION ? ALL WOMEN OF THE THIRD ESTATE WERE CLASSED AS PASSIVE CITIZENS. THEY DIDN’T HAVE THE VOTING POWERS. THEY WORKED AS SEAMSTRESSES OR LAUDRESSES ,SOLD FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES AT THE MARKET. THEY WERE EMPLOYED AS DOMESTIC SERVANTS IN THE HOUSES OF prosperous people. Most women did not have access to education or job training. Their wages were lower than those of men.

11. WHEN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WAS BUSY AT VERSAILLES DRAFTING A CONSTITUTION,THE REST OF FRANCE SEETHED WITH TURMOIL. A SEVERE WINTER HAD MEANT A BAD HARVEST;THE PRICE OF BREAD ROSE, OFTEN BAKERS EXPLOITED THE SITUATION AND HOARDED SUPPLIES. AFTER SPENDING HOURS IN LONG QUEUES AT THE BAKERY, CROWDS OF ANGRY WOMEN STROMED INTO THE SHOPS.

12. Engraving of the Women's March on Versailles, 5 October 1789

13. WHAT WAS THE CONDITION OF WOMEN AFTER THE REVOLUTION? AFTER THE REVOLUTION FEMALE TAILORS ALLOWED INTO THE GUILD OF TAILORS. NOBEL WIDOWS VOTED IN THE FRENCH STATES GENERAL IN THE ABSENCE OF A MALE GUARDIAN. WOMENS WERE ALOUD TO OPEN BANK ACCOUNT UNDER THEIR OWN NAME. WOMEN WERE ELIGIBLE TO EDUCATION BOARDS. LEGAL MAJORITY FOR UNMARRIED AND SEPARATED WOMEN. WOMEN WERE ALOUD TO PRACTISE LAW. MARRIED WOMEN WERE GIVEN THE CONTROL FO THEIR INCOME.

14. DID THE DEMANDS OF THE WOMEN WERE FULFILLED? YES THE DEMANDS OF THE WOMENS WERE FULFILLED. MEN AND WOMEN WERE EQUALLY ELIGIBLE TO INHERIT PROPERTY. DIVORCE LEGALIZED [SO A WOMEN COULD ALSO CHOOSE TO END A MARRIAGE.] IN A DIVORCE,WOMEN HAD A RIGHT TO SOME OF THE COMMON PROPERTY. A SYSTEM OF EDUCATION WAS CREATED FOR BOTH BOYS AND GIRLS. THE WOMENS WERE GIVEN EQUAL WAGES THAT OF MENS. AND THE LAST BUT NOT LEAST IN THE YEAR 1946 WOMENS IN THE FRANCE WON THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

15. THE LIFE OF A REVOLUTIONARY WOMAN- OLYMPE DE GOUGES [1748-1793] OLYMPE DE GOUGES WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE POLITICALLY ACTIVE WOMEN IN REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE.

16. THE LIFE OF A REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN-MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE WOMEN.[1791]

17. THE LIFE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN-CHARLOTTE CORDAY GIRONDIN SUPPORTER WHO KILLED JACOBIN JEAN-PAUL MARAT ON JULY 13,1793.

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