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FEMME POLITIQUE
Today I would like to remember one of the most significative “femme politique” ever: Olympe de Gouges.
In 1789, in the French Revolution, French citizenship was defined in the document, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. From 1789 until 1944, French citizenship was limited to males — even though women were active in the French Revolution, and many assumed that citizenship was theirs by right of their active participation in that historic liberation battle.

Olympe de Gouges in 1791 wrote and published the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Citizen (Déclaration des Droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne). Modeled on the 1789 Declaration of the National Assembly, defining citizenship for men, this Declaration echoed the same language and extended it to women, as well.

Olympe de Gouges both asserted woman’s capability to reason and make moral decisions, and pointed to the feminine virtues of emotion and feeling. Woman was not simply the same as man, but she was his equal partner. She was guillotined in 1793 as a reactionary royalist.

The Rights of Women 1791 :
http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/gouges.html
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympe_de_Gouges

22 aprile 2007 alle 18:59 — Fonte: repubblica.it

In celebration of its 20th year, the National Museum of Women in the Arts will host the ground breaking exhibit Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque. This exhibition brings together paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture by prominent women painters, including Artemisia Gentileschi, Lavinia Fontana, Sofonisba Anguissola, Giovanna Garzoni and Elisabetta Sirani and presents them within a historical context. It will examine the position of women artists as second-class citizens, the economics of art production, and the cultural context both within Italy and beyond the country’s borders. Ultimately, it will address the ways in which these artists overcame “the conditions of their sex,” to leave behind a fascinating visual legacy.
http://www.nmwa.org/interactives/italian/index.asp

Three-day festival at Kulturhuset in Stockholm : Live music, performance art, dance, improvisation, installations, electronica, DJs, show, video program, interactive sound works which uses body and voice as a tool collecting sounds in a range of media and genres.

With a Nordic WOMEN Focus : www.larm-festival.se

Birgitte Alsted, Natasha Barrett Trade Winds, Ann Kristin Bergesen Tap Performance, Lisa Dillan, Anna Carin Hedberg and Ebba Moi Foraendringer i det norske landskapet, Elisabet Hermodsson, Hertta Lussu Ässä Improvisation & electronica Hugger-Mugger Improvisation performance, Kuupuu / Jonna Karanka, Kira Kira Electronica, percussion & trumpet, Astrid Lomholt and Tanja Schlander featuring Cibo, Emi Maeda Harp & electronica, Kristine Scholz and Mats Persson Four-handed piano,Ilmur Stefánsdóttir, and Steina Violin Power: one of the founders of legendary The Kitchen in New York. www.vasulka.org

LARM – sound art installations at Kulturhuset until April 22 : Natasha Barrett . Andrea Creutz & Lise Skou . Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski . Solvej Dufour Andersen Sachiko Hayashi . Elisabet Hermodsson. Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir . Ursula Nistrup . Camille Norment . Anna Karin Rynander . Maia Urstad

www.larm-festival.se