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’When Men Are Weak‘: The Imperial Feminism of Frieda von Bülow
Author(s) -
Wildenthal Lora
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
gender and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-0424
pISSN - 0953-5233
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0424.00089
Subject(s) - feminism , german , emancipation , gender studies , colonialism , bourgeoisie , subordination (linguistics) , sociology , world war ii , literature , art , art history , history , politics , philosophy , political science , law , linguistics , archaeology
Frieda von Bülow was a colonialist woman author and activist who also engaged the bourgeois women's movement of pre‐First World War Germany. She is of interest to scholars of German colonialism, racial thought, feminism, and women's literature. This article interprets her life experiences, including travel to German East Africa (mainland Tanzania) and her affair with Carl Peters, together with her feminist non‐fiction and anti‐feminist fiction, to argue that she developed an imperial feminism in which German women's emancipation was predicated on the subordination of racialised ‘others’.