Magazine for women's suffrage

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Magazine for women's suffrage
Logo of the magazine for women's suffrage
description Journal of the radical wing of the bourgeois women's movement. Subtitle first, from 1912 "Monthly for the civic education of women"
Area of ​​Expertise Politics, women's suffrage
language German
publishing company Loewenthal (Berlin) (Germany)
First edition 15.1. 1907
attitude 1918
Frequency of publication initially monthly, from January 1913 fortnightly
Sold edition more than 2500 copies
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Editor Anita Augspurg (until 1912)
Minna Cauer (since 1912)
ZDB 533703-3

The magazine for women's suffrage was published between 1907 and 1918 and was the first magazine of the bourgeois women's movement that was exclusively devoted to the topic of women's suffrage. It represented the view of the radical wing of the bourgeois women's movement on women's suffrage.

history

After the founding of the German Association for Women's Suffrage , the journal Die Frauenbewegung, published by Minna Cauer since 1895, became the organ of the association. With reference to party-political neutrality, it was decided at the 2nd General Assembly in 1907 that the women's movement could no longer be the organ of the association, since it represented the radical direction of the women's movement. Instead, a new magazine, the magazine for women's suffrage , was established as the mouthpiece of the association . It appeared both as an independent magazine and as a monthly supplement to the women's movement and was edited by the association's chairwoman Anita Augspurg . At that time, the association saw itself as a reservoir for all women's suffrage efforts , which should be reflected in the orientation of the magazine.

But in 1912 the association launched a new association magazine called Frauenstimmrecht , which in turn was published by Anita Augspurg. This brought the women's movement into economic difficulties, since the magazine for women's suffrage was at least partly published as a supplement and thus secured the circle of subscribers. The friendship between Cauer and Augspurg broke due to this development, even if they worked together later. Cauer decided to continue the magazine for women's suffrage, but only as a supplement to the women's movement . She did the editing herself.

The ongoing struggles for direction in the association led to the resignation of a number of local associations and many individual members (including Augspurg) from the association in 1913, which then founded the German Association of Voting Rights . Cauer commented on this in the magazine: “There is now enough choice so that everyone can choose their field; the conservative, the moderate and the democratic. ”The voting rights association as well as the magazine for women's suffrage represented the democratic direction in this representation. The Voting Rights Association, which limited itself to association news in its communications from the German Women's Suffrage Association, from then on used both the journal Die Frauenbewegung and the journal für Frauenstimmrecht for content presentations .

The last issue of the magazine for women 's suffrage appeared in December 1918. A year later, the women's movement was also discontinued after women's suffrage had been achieved in Germany.

Content and structure

The magazine's motto was “Justice exalts a people”. The title page showed an allegorical representation of the struggle for the right to vote, in which a female figure triumphantly held up a broken chain in front of the rising sun.

The individual issues of the magazine consisted of an editorial on theoretical or practical aspects of the voting rights movement at home and abroad as well as a background report on questions of equality or related topics. In addition, there was the Rundschau with information on the activities and dates of the local and regional groups of the association. The announcements of the women's suffrage association formed the conclusion. In addition to the editorial, there was also an advertising part.

  • Selection of some issues of the magazine for women's voting rights

  • Issue No. 2 1908

  • Issue No. 3 1908

  • Issue No. 1 1911

  • Issue No. 1 1913

  • Issue No. 3 1915

  • Issue No. 1/2 1918

additional

A quarterly subscription cost 50 pfennigs.

literature

  • Bärbel Clemens: The struggle for women's suffrage in Germany . In: Christl Wickert (Ed.): Out with women's suffrage. The struggles of women in Germany and England for political equality (=  women in history and society . No. 17 ). Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1990, ISBN 3-89085-389-7 , p. 51-131 .
  • Ulla Wischermann : The press of the radical women's movement . In: Feminist Studies . tape 3 , no. 1 , 1984, p. 39–62, here 46–48 .
  • Ulla Wischermann: Women's movements and publics around 1900. Networks - counter-publics - protest stagings (=  Frankfurt Feminist Texts / Social Sciences . Volume 4 ). Helmer, Königstein 2003, ISBN 3-89741-121-0 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wischermann 1984, p. 47.
  2. ↑ Wischermann 1984, p. 46.
  3. ↑ Wischermann 2003, pp. 107-109.
  4. ↑ Barbara Greven-Aschoff: The bourgeois women's movement in Germany 1894–1933 (=  critical studies on historical science . Volume 46 ). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1981, ISBN 3-525-35704-4 , pp. 134–135 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052495-9 . .
  5. ↑ Clemens 1990, p. 77.
  6. ↑ Kerstin Wolff : Again from the beginning and told anew. The history of the struggle for women's suffrage in Germany . In: Hedwig Richter , Kerstin Wolff (ed.): Women's suffrage. Democratization of Democracy in Germany and Europe . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86854-323-0 , pp. 35–56, here 49 .
  7. ↑ Wischermann 2003, p. 114.
  8. ↑ Clemens 1990, pp. 98-99.
  9. ↑ Wischermann 2003, p. 145.
  10. ↑ Zeitschrift für Frauenstimmrecht 8 (1914) 4, p. 11, quoted from Clemens 1990, p. 102-103.
  11. ↑ Wischermann 2003, p. 114.
  12. ↑ Susanne Kinnebrock: Anita Augspurg (1857-1943). Feminist and pacifist between journalism and politics. A communication- historical biography (=  women in history and society . Volume 39 ). Centaurus, Herbolzheim 2005, ISBN 3-8255-0393-3 , p. 354 .