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Abstract / Summary

On July 19, 1889, as the representative of working women in Berlin, Clara Zetkin addressed the International Labor Congress in Paris on the theme of women’s work (Frauenarbeit). In agreement with the organizers, Zetkin believed her primary task to be the clarification of the question of women’s work. To this end, Zetkin did not give a lengthy description of the situation of women workers because she argued that their plight was the same as male workers. Zetkin asserted that women workers did not support the bourgeois women’s movement because they sought to address women’s emancipation as a part of larger social questions. The question of women’s emancipation was a product of the modern era, Zetkin concluded, demanding the attention of business owners and men to the specific needs of women and their exploitation in the capitalist system. The speech was immediately translated into English and French.

Field of Interest

Women and Social Movements

Author

Clara Zetkin, 1857-1933

Publisher

House of Dietz

Collection

Women and Social Movements, International

Content Type

Speech/Address

Duration

0 sec

Format

Text

Page Count

13

Publication Year

1957

Publisher

House of Dietz

Place Published / Released

Berlin, Berlin State

Subject

Women and Social Movements, History, Women and Social Reform, Transnational Women’s Movement, Mujer y Reforma Social, Mulher e Reforma Social, Movimiento de Mujeres Transnacional, Movimento Feminista Transnacional, Alemania, Alemanha, Deutschland, Germany, Social Reform and Political Activism, Socialism

Topic

Socialism

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Mujer y Reforma Social, Mulher e Reforma Social, Movimiento de Mujeres Transnacional, Movimento Feminista Transnacional, Alemania, Alemanha, Deutschland