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We women have no fatherland / Ilse Frapan ; translated from the German and with an afterword by James J. Conway.
Van Pelt Library PT2601.K7 W5713 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frapan, Ilse, 1849-1908, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Wir Frauen haben kein Vaterland. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Women law students--Switzerland--Zurich--Fiction.
- Women law students.
- Sex discrimination against women--Fiction.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Switzerland--Zurich.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 126 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Roxdorf Editions, 2018.
- Summary:
- Ilse Frapan's novel was a radical departure from the author's previous work, a bold dispatch from a new realm of female self-determination. The far-sighted text draws us deep into the emotional world of its protagonist as she records her ecstatic visions and dreams. In one passage, Shakespeare's Portia returns to court to defend a prostitute, in another we find a pageant of women heading for the ballot box--thirty years before they gained this right in Germany. Rejected by her father and her fatherland, brought low by poverty and solitude, Lilie arrives at the striking conclusion captured in the title. She abandons her studies and joins the proletariat, but never relinquishes her righteous rage: "I have gone underground, but I have not gone under."
- ISBN:
- 9783947325092
- 3947325096
- OCLC:
- 1050911424
- Publisher Number:
- 99992541377
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