Grete Meisel-Hess (18 April 1879,

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– 18 April 1922,

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) was an Austrian Jewish feminist, who wrote novels, short stories and essays about women's need for sexual liberation. Meisel-Hess lived in

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from 1893 to 1908. She viewed both

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and anti-feminism as signs of

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which needed to be overcome by progressive politics. She wrote for

Franz Pfemfert Franz Pfemfert (20 November 1879, Lötzen, East Prussia (now Giżycko, Poland) – 26 May 1954, Mexico City) was a German journalist, editor of ''Die Aktion'', literary critic, politician and portrait photographer. Pfemfert occasionally wrote u ...

's journal ''

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''.Kevin Repp, '"Sexualcrise und Rasse": Feminist Eugenics at the Fin de Siècle', in Suzanne L. Marchand, David F. Lindenfeld, ''Germany at the fin de siècle: culture, politics, and ideas'', p. 102

Works

* ''Die sexuelle Krise. Eine sozialpsychologische Untersuchung'', 1909. Translated by

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and

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as ''The sexual crisis: a critique of our sex life'', 1917. * ''Die Intellektuellen'' he Intellectuals 1911 * ''Sexuelle Rechte'', 1914 * ''Betrachtungen zur Frauenfrage'', 1914 * ''Die Bedeutung der Monogamie'', 1916

Secondary Literature

* Helga Thorson, ''Grete Meisel-Hess: The New Woman and the Sexual Crisis''. Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2022.

References

External links

* * 1879 births 1922 deaths Austrian women writers Austrian feminists Jewish women writers {{Austria-writer-stub