Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 21:32:40 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Lenin, Zetkin, Marx on sex?


Leo wrote:

> I was able to find some bibliographic references to the intersection of
> German Social Democracy and feminism, and they would provide some interesting
> contextual analysis of Zetkin's work.
> Werner Thonnessen, _The Emancipation of Women: The Rise and Declinbe of the
> Women's Movement in German Social Democracy, 1863-1933_ London: Pluto Press,
> 1973.
> I do not know the works myself

The Thonnessen book is quite good from the perspective of being a 
historical account of various debates within German Social Democracy 
related to "the women's question". There are good sections on the 
gender composition of the SPD,  the organizational structure and 
parliamentary strategy of the SPD, and debates at party congresses and in 
the party press. The bibliography is excellent for those who wish to 
examine this subject further (a reading ability in German is helpful 
since many of the more important works have not been translated into 
English).

The most famous work in English produced by an SPD leader was August 
Bebel's _Women Under Socialism_ translated into English by ... Daniel 
DeLeon. (A better translation, so it is claimed, was printed about 5 years 
ago under a different title).

A related book for the later period is Wilhelm Reich's _Sex-Pol: Marxist 
Writings, 1929-34__ edited with a very good introduction by Bertell Ollman.

Jerry 


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