Swiss women's association for the improvement of morality
The Swiss Women's Association for the Elevation of Morality was a Swiss morality association that was particularly dedicated to the fight against prostitution and its causes.
The SFHS was founded in 1877 as the Swiss section of the International Federation for the Abolition of Prostitution .
In 1901 the German-Swiss women split off from the national association and in turn founded the Association of German- Swiss Women's Associations for the Improvement of Morality , which in 1929 was renamed the Swiss Evangelical Association for Women's Aid and its objectives were broadened. The Association of German-Swiss Women's Associations for the Improvement of Morality turned more than the SFHS to political lobbying and advocated state repression in the field of prostitution .
The women of the SFHS viewed prostitution as an underclass phenomenon that had to be countered with prevention and repression. The section of German-speaking Swiss women in Bern and Zurich closed the brothels. In cooperation with the welfare authorities, the prostitutes - and single mothers - were housed in homes and "disciplined" there. In cooperation with the Association against Trash Literature , the Association for the Elevation of Morality achieved strict censorship for books and the extension of censorship to films.
In 1947, the Swiss Evangelical Association of Women's Aid was integrated into the Evangelical Women's Association of Switzerland and officially dissolved.
See also
Web links
- Elisabeth Joris: Morality Movement. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Archive holdings SEF, AGoF 124 in the finding aids of the Gosteli Foundation, archive on the history of the Swiss women's movement