This article provides a reassessment of the Berlin socialist women's movement of the mid-1890s as a historically significant attempt to establish a new kind of gender politics. The article shows how the movement provides an entry point to a broader, richer, more complicated feminist resistance than previously recognized. The historiographical processes that have narrowed interpretations of the movement are explored through a feminist-Foucauldian lens, which reveals the more collaborative activities and fluid alliances both among the women's groups and between them and a wider circle of social democratic men. A feminist-Foucauldian approach shifts attention to the movement's formation as an effect of power, highlighting its innovative organizational style, leadership, theorists, ideas, and resistance activities.
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Feminisms, Foucault, and the Berlin Women's Movement
Anna Lopes
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2009
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 114–136 (23 total)
Bridging the Political Gaps
The Interdiscursive Qualities of Political Romanticism in the Weimar Republic
Christian E. Roques
main proponents of “religious socialism” in the Weimar Republic, 82 gets involved in the second half of the 1920s in the debates that divide German social democracy and see the emergence of a “right” wing inside the social-democratic youth movement. 83
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 51–74 (24 total)