Yearbook of Swiss women

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The Yearbook of Swiss Women was a publication that served as a common forum for the bourgeois women's movement .

history

The yearbook was published from 1915 to 1940, from 1916 also under the French title Annuaire féminin suisse . Emma Graf , President of the Swiss Teachers' Association , proposed the 1914 yearbook and headed its editing until 1919.

Just when the interest of the world public was directed towards the events of the First World War and the political shaping of Europe, the Bern section of the Swiss Association for Women's Suffrage decided to publish an annual volume on the interests of women, in order to also make the feeling more Swiss To convey togetherness more strongly.

Later went from Clara Büttiker founded Swiss women's calendar in the Yearbook of Swiss women on. As a result, the magazine was also a platform for other women who wanted to publish their work in the social, craft and artistic fields. The magazine supports women in further “emancipatory activities”.

Title information

  • Yearbook of Swiss Women / published by the Bern Section of the Swiss Association for Women's Suffrage = Annuaire féminin suisse / publié par la Section bernoise de l'Association nationale suisse pour le suffrage féminin, Berne: Verlag A. Francke, 1915–1940. Text in German and French: 1915–1932/1933; German text only: 1935–1940 / 1941. ( According to evidence in Switzerland. National Library )

literature

  • Bern Section of the Swiss Association for Women's Suffrage (Ed.) Yearbook of Swiss Women . Harald Fischer, 2001, ISBN 3-89131-382-9 . (= Historical sources on the women's movement and gender issues , HQ 51)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ D.-TA: The yearbook of Swiss women . 1915, doi : 10.5169 / SEALS-311133 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on March 2, 2020]).
  2. ^ Regula Ludi: Emma Graf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .