The speeches, essays and newspaper articles of Marianne Weber (1870-1954) gathered here allow her to step out from her famous husband Max's shadow to reveal a campaigner who fought tirelessly for the education of women and their equal rights and pay during the transition from the German Empire to the Weimar Republic. As this volume amplifies, it is time for her voice to be heard.
Marianne Weber (1870-1954) has been overshadowed by her husband Max Weber for decades, yet without her commitment, he would not have achieved world renown. During her lifetime, however, things were different for Marianne Weber, and she was celebrated in Heidelberg and throughout Germany for her dedication to the women's movement. As a sought-after speaker and author, she campaigned for women's education, their equal rights and pay. In 1919, she made democratic history by being the first elected woman to address a German parliament, and as chair of the German Women's Associations, she was the high-profile figurehead of the bourgeois women's movement. The selection of speeches, essays and newspaper articles presented here reveal her to be a politically combative campaigner for female self-determination, who argued philosophically but always sought a conciliatory balance between the sexes as well as those with differing political viewpoints.
Table of contents:
Vorwort
Gunilla Budde: Zur Einführung: Der »Mariannen-Effekt«
I. Frauenbewegung
Frauenbewegung in Heidelberg. Vortragsmanuskript
(ca. 1949)
Politik und Frauenbewegung. Eine Replik (1901)
Italienische Frauen. Reisebrief (1903)
Was Amerika den Frauen bietet. Reiseeindrücke (1905)
Vom »Ring nationaler Frauen«. Eine Entgegnung (1920)
II. Frauen und Politik
Die Frauen und die Demokratische Partei (1918)
Rede vor der Badischen Verfassunggebenden Versammlung am 15. Januar 1919
Frauenaufgaben in der Gemeindeverwaltung (1919)
Frauenberufsfragen im badischen Verfassungsausschuß (1919)
Parlamentarische Arbeitsformen (1919)
Ein Wort an Frauen und Jugend (1928)
Maria Spiridonowa. Ein Appell an die Kulturwelt (1930)
III. Kultur- und Frauenfragen
Die Beteiligung der Frau an der Wissenschaft. Vortrag auf dem Internationalen Frauen-Kongress in Berlin am 17. Juni 1904
Beruf und Ehe (1905/06)
Sexual-ethische Prinzipienfragen. Korreferat auf dem Evangelisch-Sozialen Kongreß 1907
Autorität und Autonomie in der Ehe (1912)
Die Frau und die objektive Kultur (1913)
Vom Typenwandel der studierenden Frau (1917)
Zum Eherecht. Leitsätze für den 36. Deutschen Juristentag 1931
Akademische Geselligkeit. Frauen im Marianne-Weber-Kreis (1948)
Drucknachweise und Editorische Bemerkungen
