Frauenkarrieren zwischen Emanzipation und bürgerlicher Sozialreform (Volume 1) (English shop)

Aspekte der Generationen-Forschung

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In the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, German women gained civic rights and privileges for the first time. These successes can in part be traced back to the first German women’s movement, which had developed since the middle of the 19th century. Around 1900 the movement gained new momentum when a “moderate” wing of feminists combined the goals of female emancipation with the aspirations of bourgeois social reform. They hoped to attain civic rights by becoming active in welfare work and rendering a genuinely female service to society. The protagonists of this new principle of emancipation were career women: they held their ground in social reform, in scholarship and – after they had obtained the political right to vote – in politics. The question posed by this study is therefore: what commonalities and simultaneities do women’s careers between emancipation and bourgeois social reform display? Do the women born around 1870 who were active in social reform and the women’s movement constitute a generation?