TY  - BOOK
AU  - Daniela Richter
PY  - 2012
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1094-6233
SN  - 9783035302158
TI  - Domesticating the Public
T2  - Women’s Discourse on Gender Roles in Nineteenth-Century Germany
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0215-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051990
N2  - The domestic sphere, the ideological as well as physical context of female life during the nineteenth century, featured prominently in German women’s writing of the period. Women writers, such as Fanny Lewald, Ida von Hahn-Hahn and E. Marlitt, who had begun to dominate Germany’s book market, addressed domestic life and female gender roles through a variety of genres. At the same time, activists such as Helene Lange and Henriette Schrader-Breymann let their vision of female gender roles shape the kindergartens and girls’ secondary schools they founded.  This book discusses issues of female gender role formation and examines the ways in which women’s writing and activism contributed to the process. As a result, a rich tapestry of female social discourse is uncovered, exhibiting women’s strong commitment to shaping their destinies within a largely misogynistic political and legal national framework.
KW  - Women writers, such as Fanny Lewald, Ida von Hahn-Hahn and E. Marlitt, Gender Roles in Nineteenth-Century Germany, activists such as Helene Lange and Henriette Schrader-Breymann, female gender role formation, Gender Equality
LA  - English
ER  -