An Ambivalent Relationship - The Interrelationship of the Women's and Workers' Movement

Vincent Streichhahn, Frank Jacob (Eds.): Geschlecht und Klassenkampf. Die „Frauenfrage” aus deutscher und internationaler Perspektive im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Metropol Verlag. 2020.

Authors

  • Anja Degner TU Dresden

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2021.190

Keywords:

Feminism, Women's Movement, Work, Class

Abstract

Vincent Streichhahn and Frank Jacob have published an anthology that focuses on the subject of the women's and workers' movements and their interconnections. Focusing on the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the selected authors elaborate on the interrelations between the two movements. With their publication, the editors affirm that the women's movement cannot be told without the workers' movement. They also criticise the patriarchal historiography that is responsible for the invisibility of the research category "gender". With this volume, they pursue the goal of counteracting this historiography and using historical retrospectives to illustrate the entanglements of national and international perspectives on the categories of "gender" and "class".

Author Biography

Anja Degner, TU Dresden

Anja Degner is a doctoral student in the Department of Art History at the TU Dresden. Her doctoral project is dedicated to the artist Käthe Kollwitz and women as political subjects. She is researching the interrelations between Kollwitz's art and the first German women's movement.

References

Berger, Renate (1982): Malerinnen auf dem Weg ins 20. Jahrhundert. Kunstgeschichte als Sozialgeschichte. [2. Auflage 1986] Köln: DuMont Buchverlag.

Gerhard, Ute/Pommerenke, Petra/Wischermann, Ulla (Hg.) (2008): Klassikerinnen feministischer Theorie. Grundlagentexte ǀ Band I (1789–1919). Berlin: Ulrike Helmer Verlag.

Gerhard, Ute (2009): Frauenbewegung und Feminismus. Eine Geschichte seit 1789. [3. Auflage 2018] München: C.H.Beck. doi: http://doi.org/10.17104/9783406615382.

Buchcover "Geschlecht im Klassenkampf". Orangener Band, Abbildung: Fotografie von Frauen in schwarzen Gewändern um 1900. Eine der Frauen hält ein Schild, auf dem in englischer Sprache ein Protestslogan mit den Worten Ladies, Strike und Workers zu sehen ist

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Published

2021-12-06

How to Cite

Degner, A. (2021). An Ambivalent Relationship - The Interrelationship of the Women’s and Workers’ Movement: Vincent Streichhahn, Frank Jacob (Eds.): Geschlecht und Klassenkampf. Die „Frauenfrage” aus deutscher und internationaler Perspektive im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Metropol Verlag. 2020. Open Gender Journal, 5. https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2021.190

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Vol. 5 (2021): Open Gender Journal

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