How did revolution ideology shape ideas about gender roles in the late 1700s and early 1800s

The late 1700s was a period that saw the birth of many new ideologies, in particular revolutionary ones. It also created new concepts that are now commonplace in politics, such as citizenship, equality under the law and individual freedom. These concepts were not only important from a nationalistic perspective, but they also changed the way people thought about gender.

For example, Olympe de Gouges published her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in 1791. In it, she criticized how the Revolution had focused so much on the equality of men but did little to address the inequality of the genders. She was tried and executed for her writings.

In the UK, Mary Wollstonecraft was prompted to write A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects in 1792. In this work, she addresses double moral standards and the unfair expectations of women in society.

Other early defenders were Jeremy Bentham in his Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1781) and Marquis de Condorcet in his For the Admission to the Rights of Citizenship For Women of 1790.

These authors contributed to what became known as the feminism movement in subsequent centuries.

most people were factory or company owners.

bipartisan basally means two groups of people who dont agree with each other (republican and democrat) make an agreement or work with each other