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German Feminist Writings, Vol. 95 »

Book cover image of German Feminist Writings, Vol. 95 by Patricia A. Herminghouse

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)

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Author Biography: Patricia A. Herminghouse

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Table of Contents

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

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