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A Feminist before Feminism: Marie De Gournay

Portraits of Liberty

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Marie's Equality of Men and Women

Marie gronet was a French feminist who argued for equality between the sexes. Her work inspired thinkers like francis pulein de la bar and ada marie van sherman to argue in similar terms, an idea we often take for granted. She argues that what makes humans special is not between their legs, but between their ears, their brains. By the age of 79, she passed away after a long life of writing, resulting in her collected works totalling over a thousand pages of poetry, literary criticism, philosophical discussions and, of course, the topic of equalityBetween the sexes.

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