o achieving sexual equality resulted from her belief in the capacities women and her dedication to the principals of the Revolution. In 1788 she published a pamphlet expressing the hope that women would play a key role in the forthcoming work of national regeneration, and invited women to make financial sacrifices to help bring about political reformation. From the onset of the Revolution she had many diverse interests, she campaigned for the right to divorce, the rights of unmarried mothers and illegitimate children, the abolition of slavery, and the establishment of a national theater and clean streets.
             The Declaration of the Rights of Woman was Gouges's most important contribution to advancing woman's rights in the Revolution. Her ideas were born from the contradiction that existed between the fundamental nature of the Revolutions principals and the blatant exclusion of the female sex from their application. Article three is particularly potent declaration: "The principal of every sovereignty essentially resides in the nation, w
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