However, the Jacobin element in power abolished all the women's clubs in October 1793 and arrested their leaders. Their chief vehicle for agitation were pamphlets and women's clubs, especially the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women. These women demanded equality to men and then moved on to a demand for the end of male domination. Feminism emerged in Paris as part of a broad because of demand for social and political reform. That changed dramatically in theory as there seemingly were great advances in feminism. Women had no political rights in pre-Revolutionary France they were considered "passive" citizens, forced to rely on men to determine what was best for them. Historians since the late 20th century have debated how women shared in the French Revolution and what impact it had on French women. In Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix, Lady Liberty leads the people of the French Revolution of 1830
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