Question of women

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Clara Zetkin's book “The Workers' Question of the Present”, published in 1889 (fully available here)

The women's question is the public discourse that deals with the question and the demand for the realization of equal rights for women in modern societies.

The term “women's question” has been used since the second half of the 19th century in parallel and in connection with the “ social question ” that was raised at that time by the social upheavals and impoverishment of entire sections of the population in the course of the industrial revolution . In the period around the 1848 revolution , the area of ​​conflict was still particularly occupied with the term “ women's emancipation ”.

The "women's question" was taken up by the first wave of the women's movement that had formed in the German-speaking area with the 1848 revolution, but which soon after the failure of the freedom movement in the states of the German Confederation was subjected to repression , including through bans that were valid until 1908 the membership of women in political associations or even their participation in meetings with political content.

The core of the conflict can be seen as the social promise of the rights of freedom and equality for all through the French Revolution of 1789, the realization of which, however, systematically excluded women and thus led to ongoing social conflicts to this day. The German women and gender researcher Ute Gerhard described this as “the weaving error of the societies that call themselves 'modern'”.

literature

  • Ute Gerhard: women's movement and feminism. A story since 1789. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-56263-1 , p. 8.
  • Heide Heinz, Christoph Weismüller (ed.): On the dwindling topicality of the women's question. Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, Pathognostica, 2010 yearbook . Peras Verlag, Düsseldorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-935193-23-8 .

Contemporary literature of the first wave of the women's movement:

  • Hedwig Dohm : Women's nature and law . On the question of women. Two treatises on the characteristics and voting rights of women. Wedekind & Schwieger, Berlin 1876.
  • Clara Zetkin : Intellectual proletariat. Women's question and socialism. After a lecture given at a public student meeting in Berlin in January 1899 . Berlin 1902.
  • Lily Braun : The question of women. Your historical development and economic side. Hirzel, Leipzig 1901. ( Online )
  • Henriette Goldschmidt : The question of women is a question of culture. Leipzig 1870.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ute Gerhard : Women's movement and feminism. A story since 1789. Verlag CH Beck , Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-56263-1 , p. 8.
  2. ^ Ute Gerhard: Women's Movement and Feminism. A story since 1789. Verlag CH Beck , Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-56263-1 , p. 42/43.
  3. ^ Ute Gerhard: Women's Movement and Feminism. A story since 1789. Verlag CH Beck , Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-56263-1 , p. 9.