Elusive Women Rights As widely cited, the French Revolution was the human race's greatest war of liberation and denounced as a bloodthirsty lesson in the workings of mass mentality. Women, despite their extensive participation in the relatively legitimate and orderly legislative and political process that characterized the first phase of the Revolution, as well as in the violence of the Terror, were no better off in 1804 after the formulation of the Napoleonic Code. The question posed is clear. How did women, after achieving their hard-earned triumph, return to the dominance of men? The answer lies in contemporary notions about women and the image of the ideal revolutionary mother and wife proposed by philosophers, political leaders and even women of the time. This is essentially the focus of this article, as the article exposes the seemingly elusive rights of women. In analyzing the issue at hand, I considered Mary Wollstonecraft's text, Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Being an equivocal advocate of freedoms for humanity, Wollstonecraft was a feminist who championed the rights of women of her time. After witnessing devastating results or the improvidence of men, Wollstonecraft embraced an independent life, educated herself, and eventually made a living as a writer, teacher, and governess. In her book "A Vindication of Women's Rights", she created a scandal perhaps due to her unconventional lifestyle. The book is a women's rights manifesto that passionately advocates for women's education. Sensualists and tyrants seem to be right in their attempt to keep women in darkness to serve as their slaves and playthings. Anyone with a keen interest in the women's rights movement will surely appreciate its inexpensive edition, a seminal document... middle of paper... and market women, the National Assembly's worst fears regarding women seemed have come true. Instead of using their new political rights and civil liberties to better care for their families, women swarmed the streets brandishing weapons at each other, meddling in political affairs, about which they had little knowledge, and generally causing disorder ( Landes 100). As a result, the Assembly found that women had proven themselves “lacking the physical and moral strength necessary to discuss, deliberate, and formulate resolutions,” Ander Amar declared (Wollstonecraft 87). Thus, when women left their traditional sphere and used their new rights for purposes other than conversing with their men and raising their children, they found themselves right back where they started, confined to the home and the suffocating embrace of their men..