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Vincent Streichhahn is writing a PhD dissertation on the theory and practice of the women’s question in the German social-democratic movement before 1914. He is coeditor of the anthology Geschlecht und Klassenkampf: Die “Frauenfrage” aus deutscher und internationaler Perspektive im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Metropol Verlag, 2020).
In the late 1800s, working-class German women challenged the common sexism in the early socialist movement to assert autonomy – proving that they didn’t need fathers, husbands, or rich women to speak for them.