Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia.
[International Feminism]. Anthony, Katharine. Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia. New York: Henry Holt, 1915.
8vo.; few pages lightly smudged towards edges; contemporary ownership signature; blue cloth, stamped in gilt; a lightly used copy.
First edition. A fascinating record of the burgeoning German women’s rights movement, which was of course completely demolished after the Nazis came to power and imprisoned its leaders. Modern day feminists have yet to reconstruct the history of the early German feminist movement fully. This 1915 account helps to capture a crucial and fleeting historical moment. According to the preface:
This book is an attempt to bring some of the main aspects of German and Scandinavian feminism into closer touch with the woman movement of the English-speaking countries... Certainly we have as much to learn from the European feminists as they have to learn from us. The suffrage movement in this country is approaching a successful climax; the hour-glass must be promptly turned. Otherwise the continuity of the feminist advance will be broken and acquired momentum squandered...
Chapters include “The Coalescence of the European Woman”; “Schools and the Woman”; “The Mutterschutz Idea”; “State Maternity Insurance”; “The Economic Renaissance of the German Women”; and “The Valkyrie Vote.”
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