Are they women? : a novel concerning the third sex / Aimée Duc (Mina Adelt-Duc) ; edited and translated by Margaret Sönser Breen and Nisha Kommattam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duc, Aimée, 1869-approximately 1908, author.

Contributor:

Breen, Margaret Sönser, editor, translator.

Kommattam, Nisha, editor, translator.

Series:

Broadview editions

Standardized Title:

Sind es Frauen?. English

Language:

English

German

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

144 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Deeply engaged in women's rights debates and discussions of the 'third sex," Are They Women? speaks to the lively communities of lesbians in existence across turn-of-the-century Central Europe. It is one of the first lesbian novels written in German and, for that matter, in any language. It is also one of the very few pre-Second Wave feminist texts, whether German or otherwise, to provide a positive, non-pathologizing, and romantic portrait of lesbians. As such, it complicates the dominant critical narrative of pre-liberation lesbian literature, whereby heroines conventionally face loneliness, imprisonment, madness, death, and heterosexual conversion. A work of popular literature with cultural significance, Are They Women? is both highly readable and remarkably progressive for its time. This is the first complete English translation of the novel, and the only edition in print in any language. The historical appendices provide contemporary materials on homosexuality, as well as compelling images from German feminist periodicals of the time. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Appendix A Reviews of Are They Women?

1. Review of Sind es Frauen?, Westermanns Illustrierte Deutsche Monatshefte [Westermann's Illustrated German Monthly Magazine] (November 1901)

2. From Numa Praetorius [Eugen Wilhelm], "Weibliche Homosexualitat" ["Female Homosexuality"], Jahrbuch fur sexuelle Zwischenstufen [Yearbook for Intermediate Sexual Types] (1903)

Appendix B Anita Augspurg on Women and Marriage

1. Anita Augspurg, "A Typical Case of the Present Time. An Open Letter" (1905)

Appendix C Anna Ruling on the Women's Movement and Homosexuality

1. Anna Ruling, "What Interest Does the Women's Movement Have in Solving the Homosexual Problem?" (8 October 1904)

Appendix D Havelock Ellis and Female Inversion

1. From Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds, "Sexual Inversion in Women," Sexual Inversion (1897)

Appendix E Cover Images from Draisena

1. Cover of 24 April 1899 edition of Draisena

2. Closeup of cover image from 26 October 1898

Appendix F Cover Image from Adelt-Duc's Novella Collection

1. Cover image of Indische Novellen (1914).

Notes:

Translation of: Sind es Frauen?.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Duc, Aimée, 1869-approximately 1908. Sind es Frauen?. English. Are they women?

ISBN:

9781554814800

1554814804

OCLC:

1176353018