During the French Revolution, feminism was represented by well-known figures such as Condorcet and Gouges. Their defense of equal rights for women, in terms of political representation and access to education, established what we call “universalist” feminism. This universalist defense of women’s rights should not obscure other forms of feminism in Europe that promoted women’s causes by offering “differentialist” or “sexualist” solutions to the problem of patriarchy. The Englishman, James Henry Lawrence, for example, proposed a matrilineal system as a substitute for current social systems rooted in marriage and paternity.