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Authors: Patricia A. Herminghouse (Editor), Magda Mueller
ISBN-13: 9780826412812, ISBN-10: 0826412815
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Date Published: February 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Introduction | ||
Education for Girls and Women | ||
To Cook and Spin for a Man (1777) | 3 | |
Letter from Dorothea von Schlozer to Luise Michaelis (June 19, 1785) | 6 | |
A Thorough Investigation of the Causes That Prevent the Female Sex from Attending the University (1742) | 8 | |
On Woman's Obligation toward the Higher Cultivation of the Mind (1802) | 10 | |
Education and Instruction of the Female Sex: A Book for Parents and Educators (1810) | 14 | |
The Participation of the Feminine Sphere in Affairs of the State (1847) | 17 | |
Instruction for Women (1856) | 21 | |
Seventh Political Letter: Treat Us like Men, so That We Can Become Competent Women (1870) | 25 | |
Are Women Allowed to Study? Can They Do It? Should They? (1874) | 28 | |
Hopes for the Future (1876) | 31 | |
On the Domestic Education of Girls (1876) | 33 | |
From Higher Education of Women in Europe (1889) | 37 | |
The Reform of Girls' Schools (1908) | 40 | |
Twenty Years Ago (1913) | 43 | |
In the Light of Memory (1953) | 45 | |
The Jewish Girl (1934) | 47 | |
At Home en Route: An German Life (1998) | 53 | |
Women and Work | ||
The Lace-Makers (1851) | 61 | |
For the Female Workers (1849) | 64 | |
Domestic Life (1848) | 67 | |
The Right of Women to Earn a Living (1866) | 69 | |
Third Easter Letter for Women: Training for Domestic Servants (1863) | 71 | |
Ninth Easter Letter for Women: Shelters for Working-Class Women (1863) | 76 | |
Tenth Political Letter: Work and Family Values (1869) | 80 | |
Are Motherhood and Domesticity Compatible with a Profession? (1903) | 82 | |
Autobiography of a Working Woman (1903) | 84 | |
The First Female Workers' Strike in Vienna (1912) | 87 | |
Women's Work and Housekeeping (1901) | 90 | |
Rationalization in the Household (ca. 1927) | 96 | |
The Social Condition of Female White-Collar Workers (1930) | 99 | |
Female Teachers (1930) | 101 | |
Community Commissioners for [Gender] Equality: Possibilities and Problems (1992) | 104 | |
Women and Politics | ||
In Praise of the Male Sex, as Seen by Certain Females (1739) | 109 | |
Editor's Farewell (1850) | 112 | |
The Conviction of Susan B. Anthony (1873) | 114 | |
Ninth Political Letter: Emancipation and Feminine Virtue (1869) | 116 | |
The Women Question (1876) | 119 | |
The Right of Woman's Suffrage (1876) | 121 | |
The Woman Question in Switzerland (1884) | 123 | |
The Conservative and the Radical Women's Movement (1941) | 125 | |
There Were No Social-Democratic Women's Organizations (1921) | 128 | |
Our Goals (Excerpt from Die Frau) (1893) | 130 | |
The Modern Woman's Rights Movement in Germany (1912) | 132 | |
The New Woman (1893) | 137 | |
Women's Suffrage and Class Struggle (1912) | 139 | |
Women of the Working People (1915) | 144 | |
Speech in San Francisco (1912) | 147 | |
Female Pacifism (1917/1922) | 149 | |
Love and the Right to Vote (1914) | 151 | |
The German Woman and Her Tasks in the New Republic (1919) | 153 | |
Origins of the Contemporary Women's Movement (1968) | 156 | |
Women in the SDS; or, On Our Own Behalf (1968) | 160 | |
Cross-Thinking/Counter-Questioning/Protest (1987) | 163 | |
The End of Socialism in Europe: A New Challenge for Socialist Feminism? (1992) | 167 | |
Issues of Gender | ||
A Maid's Fortune (1739) | 175 | |
A Marriage Proposal (1862) | 176 | |
Banishment (1846) | 180 | |
Woman in Conflict with Social Relations (1847) | 183 | |
The Rational Marriage (1848) | 186 | |
Selected Aphorisms (1880) | 188 | |
Shame (1896) | 190 | |
Prostitution (1896) | 191 | |
A Manifesto to Germany's Women (1908) | 194 | |
Three Doctors as Knights of the MaterDolorosa (1902) | 197 | |
The Old Woman (1903) | 203 | |
What Interest Does the Women's Movement Have in the Homosexual Question? (1904) | 206 | |
Unwed Mothers (1912) | 210 | |
Marriage and Sexual Reform (1916) | 215 | |
Against Paragraph 218 (Lithograph) (1924) | 219 | |
How It All Began: "I Have Had an Abortion" (1981) | 220 | |
The Function of Sexuality in the Oppression of Women (1975) | 223 | |
The Future of Feminism (1976) | 227 | |
The Contemporary Witch, the Historical Witch, and the Witch Myth: The Witch, Subject of the Appropriation of Nature and Object of the Domination of Nature (1978) | 229 | |
For the Dignity of Woman (1981) | 233 | |
The Ceremony of the Bleeding Rose: Preliminary Reflections on a Film Project (1984) | 234 | |
Aggression and Gender (1985) | 237 | |
Feminist Theology (1985) | 240 | |
Language Is Publicity for Men - but Enough Is Enough! (1995) | 243 | |
Forty Years of Migrant Women in Germany (1996) | 247 | |
Women in Art and Literature | ||
On the tower (1842) | 253 | |
The Daily Routine of an Eighteenth-Century Woman Writer (ca. 1783) | 256 | |
Women Writers (1862) | 257 | |
Family Literature (1905) | 258 | |
A Fable (1906) | 263 | |
Backstage (1894) | 267 | |
Women's Dramatic Sensibility (1930) | 270 | |
Making Use of Sexuality as a Productive Force: Karin Huffzky in Conversation with the East German Writer Irmtraud Morgner (1975) | 272 | |
Is There a Feminine Aesthetic? (1976) | 278 | |
The White Raven Has Learned to Fly: Some Ironic, Some Sarcastic, Some Serious Remarks, Plus a Polemic on a Pressing Problem (1977) | 285 | |
Overcoming Speechlessness (1980) | 290 | |
The Spot of Blood in the Eye of the Camera (1981) | 293 | |
Indiscretions of the Literary Beast: Pariah Consciousness of Women Writers since Romanticism (1981) | 298 | |
Double Focus: On the History of Women's Writing (1983) | 303 | |
the palatheater of the mouth (1989) | 310 | |
Some Theses Regarding Women's Writing (1997) | 315 | |
Cacophony (1994) | 317 | |
What Is "Women's Literature"? (1996) | 322 |