Women’s Politics in the Service of the Party

Authors

  • Marianne Zepp Berlin, Heinrich Böll Stiftung

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/588

Keywords:

Beruf, Biografie, Gleichstellung, Parteien, Politische Partizipation, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

This study is made up of biographical portraits of twelve SPD assemblywomen who sat in the Bundestag between 1957 and 1969 for the first time. Their beginnings, their political development, and their special areas of knowledge are reconstructed on the basis of ego-documents. The female Bundestag-members portrayed embody the social-democratic policy of equal rights that was caught between tradition and the demands of modernity in a time directly preceding the beginning of the new women’s movement.

Published

2008-03-04

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Schwerpunkt