Published in eBook titles*

The proletarian women’s movement differs from the bourgeois movement exemplified by Mary Wollstonecraft’s work, which focused on issues like suffragette within the middle class.

According to Klara Zetkin, while the bourgeois movement centres on women fighting men within their class, the proletarian movement calls for women and men of the working class to unite in overcoming class divisions.

In literature, “proletarian” was frequently equated with “socialist,” usually referencing either the SPD or KPD. Today, a broader social definition of “proletarian” is considered more appropriate.

The English language texts provided here are for informational purposes only.
Most titles discussed in this subject are in German.
Foreign titles, if present, are translations into German.
The data in electronic bibliographic records conforming to International University Library Standards are also primarily in German, including titles, collection names, sets, subsets, and related elements.
Accordingly, it is standard practice to present such texts and information in their original German, consistent with the format of its original printed works.

Nicht alle Kaempferinnen unterstuetzten diese Trennung, Lilly Braun beispielsweise nicht. Sie wurde dann auch aus der Proletarischen Frauenbewegung ausgeschlossen, zuvor gab es harte Richtungs-Kaempfe zwischen ihr und Klara Zetkin.

Mit dem Zusammenbruch der SED-Herrschaft der “DDR” im November 1989 wurden auch Archiv-Bestaende in Ost-Berlin zugaenglich. Dort war die Privat-Bibliothek Klara Zetkins gelagert, ca. 50% unserer Titel entstammen der Privat-Bibliothek Klara Zetkins.

In 1932, Hitler “threw” Klara Zetkin, the then-elderly president, out of the German Reichstag (the photo above shows Klara Zetkin giving her last speech in the Reichstag in Berlin (it was taken in August 1932). Klara Zetkin then moved to Moscow, where she took her private library with her. She died in June 1933, Stalin carried with others her coffin, and Zetkin is buried in the Kremlin Wall.

Following Zetkin’s passing in June 1933, her private library was transferred from Moscow to East Berlin (GDR), although the exact date of this relocation remains unclear.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, some of the original works located in East Berlin were found to be in poor ‘physical’ condition.

For our edition, we have incorporated not only the Klara Zetkin privately own titles from her collections, but also materials from 28 additional libraries and archives across Europe.

To our knowledge, this marks the first occasion on which titles previously dispersed throughout various libraries and archives have been consolidated under the collective designation “Proletarian Women’s Movement”.

These original ‘physical’ materials often consisted of brief political pamphlets, which institutions seldom collected in a systematic manner. Moreover, those works that survived both World Wars may now face deterioration due to paper decay or acid corrosion.

The criteria for selecting these hard-to-find, ‘physical’ originals were their significance, rarity, and the physical threat to the originals due to their state of preservation.

We also republished works whose cover page designs reflected the current political debates of the time.

Wir machten keine Konservierungen der ‘physisch’ bedrohten Original-Titel, unsere ebooks sind jedoch Preservation-Massnahmen. Somit muss das ‘physische’ Original nicht mehr zur Hand genommen werden, jenes bleibt vor dem weiteren Nutzer-Zugriff geschont, das “Access”-Werk kann unser eBook-Titel sein.

Damit folgten wir der Aufforderung von Julius Motteler – frueher Foerderer und erster Archivar der Proletarischen Frauenbewegung – welcher sprach: “Sammelt die Bausteine zu einer Geschichte der Proletarischen Frauenbewegung, solange die Dokumente nicht zerfallen und verweht sind”.

Unsere eBooks enthalten also Inhalte der zugrundeliegenden Originalwerke, teilweise inklusive den Original-Umschlagsgestaltungen. Die eBooks wurden in digital verbesserten Faksimile-Seiten unter Beibehaltung des historischen Schriftbildes und Layouts publiziert. Ferner kann der Nutzer ueber manuell / digitale Navigationshilfen je ebook auf spezifische Inhalte bzw. Baende je Titel (falls vorhanden) individuell digital zugegreifen, einschliesslich – wiederum falls vorhanden – dem Inhaltverzeichnis eines Werkes.

Die digitale Erhaltung und systematische Katalogisierung dieser wertvollen Bestände bieten einen nachhaltigen Zugang zu historischen Schriften und ermöglichen eine umfassende wissenschaftliche Bearbeitung. Mit Digitalisierung können Inhalte gesichert und für kommende Generationen zugänglich gemacht werden, ohne die Originale weiter zu
gefährden. Darüber hinaus eröffnet dies neue Perspektiven für interdisziplinäre Forschung und internationale Kooperationen.

Die Bandbreite unserer Titel ist beispielsweise attraktiv für Projekte im Bereich von Frauenforschung, Soziologie, Politikwissenschaft, Philosophie, Ökonomie, Historischen Disziplinen, Kulturwissenschaften etc.

Our publications address disciplines such as sociology, political science, philosophy, historical disciplines, cultural studies, and economics.
They also offer opportunities for interdisciplinary research and international collaboration.

Proletarian Women’s Movement
Works originally written in the 19th & early 20th centuries.
353 Writers / including 64 “Koerperschaften” / Corporations)
ca 900 eBooks (without Periodicals)
ca. 67,000 pages (without Periodicals)
Periodicals:
we published 53 Periodicals as eBooks with approximately 25.000 pages,
for more details click on Periodicals

Electronic Bibliographic records are available

Upon request, we can compile author / title lists for you.

Our collections support scholarship across topics such as women’s studies, sociology, political science, philosophy, economics, history, and cultural studies.

Notes:
We have attempted to locate information on the possible authorship of the individual works. Should an authorship error occur, please contact us.
* Information is subject to change at any time and without notice.
** “Title” means “bibliographic unit”, i.e., one title contains the content of at least one “physical” printed volume. However, depending on the original work, “title” can also contain contents of two or more ‘physical’ original books and / or journals or Periodicals.
*** The short titles listed in examples above, are listed in the electronic bibliographical data with partly extensive long titles, related to its original wording,