USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Women gained quite a number of rights in the first years of the Revolution, between 1789 and 1793. The revolutionary legislators granted them a proper civil status: civil rights and a legal identity of their own. To sum up, women were no longer underage individuals under the law.

Detailed explanation-2: -The most active advocates for women’s rights were women who had been associated with the Saint Simonian and Fourierist movements of the 1830s: Eugenie Niboyet, Jeanne Deroin, Suzanne Voilquin, Desirée Gay, and Pauline Roland.

Detailed explanation-3: -As moderate republicans, the Thermidorians tried to calm down the Revolution and closed most Jacobin clubs across France. These events triggered the right-wing royalist and anti-revolutionary First White Terror, especially aimed against Montagnards and Jacobins in the Rhône valley and southern Brittany.

Detailed explanation-4: -The following were the conditions of women before the French Revolution: Women were considered socially inferior to men. There was no access to education except for the women from the first and second estates. Small jobs such as selling fruits, flowers, etc were assigned to women from third estates.