Feminism

Although the female body has been an enduring motif throughout the history of Western art, female artists are very thin on the ground. Ways of redressing this imbalance and allowing women to enter the field as artists were issues that became very important during the women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Von Kathrin PetersMore ...

Barbara Holland-Cunz is a professor of political science with the focus on gender at the University of Giessen where she heads a research team for gender studies. She has been committed to the women’s movement for 30 years and has written a much respected book on the history of the women’s movement. An interview by Christine Sommer-Guist.More ...

Helke Sander's name always crops up whenever people in Germany talk about feminist films. She is one of the women who really made their mark on German feminism, and says with great conviction: "The development of the women's movement is, in my opinion, at least as important as the discovery that the earth is round." What does she have to say about feminism past and present? An interview by Christine Sommer-Guist.More ...