Levy and Applewhite’s essay seems to discuss the major theme of women’s participation and contributions during the French Revolution and how it had a huge influence on the roles of women especially in Westernized cultures. Women were able to have an influence in politics even though they were not treated with equality, because they were deemed ‘unable to’. “They either believed women were biologically limited in reasoning capacity and physical strength or argued that their interests were adequately represented by fathers, husbands, or sons” (Bridenthal 267).
Olympe De Gouges’s “Declaration” was written as a explanation as well as a counter toward the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen” to give her point of view as to where a women
