Luise Buechner: A Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary Feminist

By: Scharpf, Cordelia

This first book-length biography with discussions of select writings by Luise B chner (1821-1877) draws on her commentary of events available in letters and writings. A close reading of B chner's fictional writings reveals that she both entertained and educated her readers. Her pedagogical messages correspond to ideas she promoted in her work on the woman question . This in-depth study properly situates her in the changing cultural climate and socio-political developments that led to unification of the German states in 1871. B chner tested and revised her thoughts on the woman question in the course of her practical work as a co-founder of local women's associations and as a member of two competing national bourgeois women's organizations. Her voice and temperament, as reflected in letters and articles not consulted by previous biographers, lead to surprising discoveries about a single woman whose life had more to offer than the narrowly prescribed roles assigned to middle-class women of her day.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3039103253
• ISBN13: 9783039103256
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"