HIST 2117: Modern GermanySpring 2013

Lecture Ten: Women in Politics and Society

Ideas of Social Structure and Family

• Family as Metaphor of Public Life• Biological Interpretations of Gender Roles• Separate Spheres• Class and Gender

Kinder, Kirche, Kuche

• Middle Class Domesticity• The Home as Have• Mass Culture and Gender Roles -- The

Gartenlaube• Technological Change and Housework

Women and Education

• The German Male Educational SystemRealschuleGymnasiumUniversity

• Schools for Girls -- Tochterschule• Women as Education Advocates -- The

Kindergarten Movement

Women and Social Reform

• Female Association for the Care of the Poor and Sick

• Association for Poor Married Women in Childbed

• Lette Association 1866• Helene Lange, League of German Women’s

Associations Bund Deutsche Frauenvereine (BDF) 1894

“Radical” Women’s Movement

• Women’s Suffrage Movement• Louise Otto-Peters General German Women’s

Association Allgemeine Deutsche Frauenverband (ADF) 1866

• Union of Progressive Women’s Associations Verein Fortschrittliche Frauenverbande (VFF) 1899

• August Bebel Woman under Socialism 1879• Clara Zetkin Equality 1891