The French Revolution actively suppressed women’s political participation as unnatural.

Evidence

Judith, Charlotte Corday, and Vera Zasulich assassinate; the Frondeuses conspire; during the Revolution and the Commune, women fight alongside men against the established order; intransigent refusal and revolt against a freedom without rights and power are permitted, whereas it is forbidden for a woman to participate in positive construction; at best she will manage to insinuate herself into masculine enterprises by indirect means. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 289 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: French radicals opposed women’s suffrage out of fear women would vote conservatively — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 278; Women are permitted destructive revolt but forbidden constructive participation. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 289; Secularist feminists tied the French headscarf ban to revolutionary progress (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Women are permitted destructive revolt but forbidden constructive participation. #expands (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 289
• Ridicule and mockery defeated early feminist political campaigns #corroborates (0.75)
• Secularist feminists tied the French headscarf ban to revolutionary progress #expands (0.72)