Discourses about Women around 1900

Authors

  • Gregor Hufenreuter Freie Universität Berlin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/155

Keywords:

Intersektionalität, Literatur, Neuzeit, Pädagogik, Rassismus, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Grießhaber-Weninger investigates the relationship between pseudo-scientific constructions of gender and ethnicity and literary tendencies over the course of the 19th century. Serving as the basis of her analysis are select literary texts from the 19th century. Drawing on contemporary ideas about education for bourgeois women, sociological concepts of being a stranger, and medical images of beauty, Grießhaber-Weninger highlights then-popular forms of discourse and shows where literature drew on these discourses or chose to ignore them.

Published

2002-11-01