Feministischer Kampftag /International Women's Day
A single day a year isn't enough to change the scope of this unfortunately ongoing issue, so here's a selection of feminist non-fiction by German* authors/in original German versions!
*Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and any other country of origin, provided the book is written in German in its original version :)
created by simone
last updated August, 2026
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For some earlier works from the 19th/early 20th century I found free versions I will link below, the rest is avaible through a publisher and/or I found them through the library system. Aufsätze aus einer Frauenzeitung von Louise Otto (1849-1850) Das Recht der Frauen auf Erwerb von Louise Otto (1866) Die Frauenfrage von Lily Braun (1902) Die Mütter von Hedwig Dohm (1903) Zur Frage des Frauenwahlrechts von Clara Zetkin (1907) oder hier originaler Text in Kurrent/Fraktur, daneben in lateinischen
Please let me know if you have any more recs :)
Omg I needed this! AND I need more time to read all of these 🥲
simoneOP
Awesome to have you here 🫶 don’t we all, the readers biggest struggle to never have enough time 💔
Yeah 🫠 I'm guessing you've read a few? Which is your favourite? Or where could I get the most epiphanies? 😇
simoneOP
Actually not that many, only 6 🙈 of those my favourite two are Frausein, Sprache und Sein. Im currently reading Nemesis Töchter, but haven’t gotten very far i really use this as another reading challenge bc i already consume a lot of content like this, mostly in English and often American pov and i want to change that, read people who tell me something about my realities.
Well that is a few I'd say ☺️ To your last point: Yes! These are exactly my thoughts whenever I read a non-fiction from the US 😅
I will look at those specifically then, thanks :) I've read one by Wittwer and I really like her voice 😇
Amazing list!
