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"More pride, their women!"

take Slowly but surely we walk in the new year and slowly awaken from our winter sleep ... I promise! And because we hope that it will be a good year, we will start just fine with something: 2011 is the fact Hedwig Dohm year.
? Hedwig who "some may wonder - and this all to (un) fairly. On the one hand, there is a big failure in 1831, born feminist who wrote with a sharp pen against patriarchy, not to know - the other, it is just one of those historical women characters who are all too often forgotten.

The practice forces the women into a mental Modecostüm. It must once acceptirten attributes of her sex to make a show, whether the Nature has equipped them to or not. "Bills", calls the company to her, "as you are, is irrelevant." And that bends and distorts the woman, this poor moral Clown, her soul, if possible. (Dohm 1876)

This is how Hedwig Dohm 19 876 (!) The situation of women. As of 1872, relatively late, at 41, she entered a publicist for equality between women and men, but without directly involved in the women's movement. Dohm saw the women's movement as a "respectable, modest movement," in which a "class of people" begging for their existence as alms.

"For me is the beginning of all true progress in the field of women's issues in the voting rights of women, "she wrote 1873rd Your first feminist works ("What do the pastors of Women" (1872), "The scientific Emancipation of Women" (1874) and "Women's Nature and Law" (1876)) have rarely attention and if so, they were criticized. Above all, the response to the political demands for more political participation rights for women (such as the claim of women's suffrage 1873), remained in the ranks of the women's movement was restrained.

is now so celebrated Dohm. On the project page you'll find everything about the witty woman and her works. Also highly recommended: Many of her works are online - wow! And although here . (Insider tip: Be sure to read "The anti-feminists" - maybe even someone you may know ;-)!?

There are many reasons to read Dohms posts - her dry humor and analytical acumen to make every evening verlümmelten compensated. But above all: let us inspire - what's nicer to start year?

And we leave the final word, because it's fits so nicely (yes, (unfortunately), 110 years later), even her own:

More pride, their women! How is it possible to that you are not rebels against the contempt that hits you still. - Also today? Yes, even today. (...) More pride, their women! The proud can fall ill, but he is not despised. Only on the neck, to bend and enters the foot of the supposed master. (Dohm, 1901)