Women mobilized in modern bourgeois revolutions. A comparative study between England and France

This article attempts, through a comparative study of the primitive moments of two revolutions (English and French), to present a conceptual map of the possibilities of enunciation and realization that had in each scenario the prerogatives of women mobilized by equality before the law, political participation, property guarantees and personal autonomy. We will defend the hypothesis that the change of discursiveness of the women's movement was gradually, over a century and a half, losing the powerful characteristics of initial radical democracy, with an axiomatic theological egalitarianism, and acquiring elements of a republican democracy, sieved by enlightened liberalism. At the same time, we will sustain that this process, of defeats and negotiations, was vital to conjure, through its paradoxes, feminist recognition and representation.