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Women's Rights as Human Rights after the End of History

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 862-880, October 2023., 2023
Abstract This article is based on the 2022 Gender & History annual lecture. It reconsiders the recent history of women's rights as human rights. The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union brought to an end a twentieth‐century discourse of women's rights, understood not only as legal norms, but as a political language harnessed to ...
Celia Donert
wiley   +1 more source

Karl Lueger and the Reichspost: Construction of a Cult of Personality

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 337-358, September 2022., 2022
This article contributes to the body of research on fin‐de‐siècle Viennese and Austrian history, as well as the history of ideas and press history. It expands on the scholarship by focusing on one newspaper — the Catholic‐conservative Reichspost (affiliated with the Christian Social Party) — to analyse how it perpetuated the cult of personality ...
Chris O'Neill
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‘SCHÖNE JUGENDLICHE MÄDCHENKÖPFE’: GENDER AND ‘GENIE’ IN LOU ANDREAS‐SALOMÉ’S MENSCHENKINDER

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 448-464, July 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT In her essay ‘Der Mensch als Weib’ (1899) Lou Andreas‐Salomé compares women to trees: both produce their ‘fruit’ unintentionally. This comparison seems to allow very little scope for active female creativity, let alone ingenuity. Closer inspection, however, reveals a more differentiated view of questions of gender and creativity.
Marlen Mairhofer
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MAKING THE CASE AGAINST PARAGRAPH 218: NARRATIVE AND DISCURSIVE STRATEGIES IN ELSE KIENLE'S FRAUEN: AUS DEM TAGEBUCH EINER ÄRZTIN★

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 1, Page 40-58, January 2022., 2022
Abstract This article analyses Dr Else Kienle's 1932 text Frauen: Aus dem Tagebuch einer Ärztin within the context of the debates around women's access to abortion in Weimar Germany. Access to abortion was a widely debated topic in Weimar Germany and public demonstrations against Paragraph 218 of the Weimar penal code, which outlawed abortion, occurred
Katherine E. Calvert
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ELISABETH LANDAU'S NOVEL DER HOLZWEG (1918): A GERMAN‐JEWISH GENDERED DISCUSSION OF HEIMAT

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 89-100, January 2019., 2019
ABSTRACT Elisabeth Landau's novel Der Holzweg discusses her German‐Jewish protagonists’ attitudes to their estranged homeland in the climate of anti‐Semitism in the last months of the First World War. With reference to contemporary theoretical writing, two main notions of Heimat, held by the novel's main characters, Karl and Elise, can be identified ...
Godela Weiss‐Sussex
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a Transnational Civil Society : Actors and Concepts in Europe from the Late Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Since late eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the concept of civil society has increasingly assumed a transnational dimension that has given rise to political debates and attracted scholarly interest. This paper provides a research report and a historical
Francesc Piferrer   +2 more
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Frauenberuf und Frauenrolle. Zur Entstehung geschlechtsspezifischer Ausbildungs- und Arbeitsmarktstrukturen vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
#deutsch#Forschungsmethode: Grundlagenforschung, historisch. "Der Aufsatz thematisiert das Eindringen weiblicher Angestellter in die traditionell maennliche Beschaeftigungsdomaene der Bueroarbeit zwischen 1860 und 1914. Es wird aufgezeigt, wie sich dabei
Klinger, Vera
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