Hubertine Auclert

Hubertine Auclert ( born April 10, 1848 in L' Allier in Auvergne; † August 4, 1914 in Paris) was a French socialist and suffragist. She was the first women's rights activist who in 1882 described himself as féministe ( feminist ).

Life

Hubertine Auclert (full first name: Marie -Anne- Hubertine ) grew up as the child of wealthy parents in central France. At thirteen, she was an orphan. Her mother sent her to a convent boarding school, which she left after eight years. Inspired by the activists of the Paris Commune as Louise Michel and the socialist and feminististischen pioneer Jeanne Deroin (1805 - 1894), which she admired, she moved to Paris at the age of 25 to participate in the growing and now legal women's movement. For 40 years until her death, she fought for the rights of women. A modest legacy her father allowed her to live independently.

Hubertine Auclert is buried in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The sculpture on her grave bears the inscription "Le Suffrage des Femmes " (French Women's suffrage ).

Work

Hubertine Auclert is one of the first activists of the French suffragette movement. In 1876 she founded the first women's suffrage club of France, the Société le Droit des Femmes, which was in 1883 renamed Société de Suffrage des Femmes, because this name the fundamental concerns expressed better. The group had the motto ' No duties without rights, no rights without obligations '. 1881 Auclert founded the newspaper La Citoyenne. With articles as well as with hundreds of petitions and in public speeches, she joined for the full civil rights of women in all fields, such as the right to choose to train yourself to have to have their own income and divorce.

Four years, 1888 to 1892, Hubertine Auclert lived in Algeria, where she campaigned for girls' schools and the abolition of polygamy. In her book, Les Femmes arabes en Algérie (1900) describes the double oppression of Algerian women by the traditions and colonialism.

The success of their struggle not experienced Hubertine Auclert: French women are admitted nationwide the right to vote until after the Second World War in 1946, after France had freed the summer of 1944 with the help of the allies of the German occupation.

Writings

• Les femmes arabes en Algerie. 1900th (Reprint: Editions L' Harmattan, 2009, ISBN 978-2-296-10756-4 )
• Le Nom de la femme. Société du Livre à l' auteur, Paris 1905.
• Le Vote Des Femmes. 1908th (Reprint: Kessinger Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-166-74460-1 )