Clara Zetkin

See also:   [Susan Watkins]
           -[Femisnm (in art)]-

   And such beauties fall from the
   sky as if the wings of doves; and
   within them all:  The heart and
   soul of - Columbe Volant!!
                         2007.11.19

Clara Zetkin

   Clara Zetkin (b. 1857.07.05,  Wiederau, Saxony; d. 1933.06.20, Arkhangelskoye, Russian S.F.S.R.)
   aka:   Clara Eissner

Info

  "She also adopted the name of her lover, the Russian 
   revolutionary Ossip Zetkin, with whom she had two 
   sons. Ossip Zetkin died in 1889." - {wiki}
   
  "Clara Eissner was educated at the 
   Leipzig Teachers' College for Women" {Britannica}


Stuff




Writings

  note: *the* main source is the Marxist's InterNet Archive: 

  "German Socialist Women's Movement" (1909.10.09). 
  From her "Justice" (1909; P. 7); transcribed by Ted Crawford.

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    They are to make a vigorous propaganda that 
    the wage-earning women shall in large numbers 
    exercise the franchise to the administrative 
    bodies of the State sick-Insurance, the only 
    kind of franchise women possess in Germany. 

    The women comrades were further engaged to 
    form local committees for the protection of 
    children and to improve those already existing. 
    As the legal inspection of the administration 
    of the children’s protective law is absolutely 
    insufficient, these committees, together with 
    the local trade unions’ councils, have to watch 
    over such administration. Besides this, Socialist 
    women were reminded to found and improve protective 
    committees for women-workers, and collect their 
    grievances on illegal and pernicious conditions 
    of labour, forwarding them to the factory inspector. 

    Besides their activity in that line, the Socialist women have continued their propaganda in favour of the full political emancipation of their sex. The struggle for universal suffrage, vigorously maintained, particularly in Prussia, was a struggle for adult suffrage for both sexes, vindicated in meetings and leaflets. Public and factory meetings in great number; and an indefatigable activity in other different forms, have served he trade union organisations of the women workers. The number of women trade unionists has increased from 136,429 in 1907 to 138,44.3 in 1908. The work of our trade unions to enlighten, train and organise wage-earning women is not smaller nor less important than what the S.D.P. has done to induce women to join in political struggles of the working class. 




Links

  -[Marxists.org: archives]-


  -[wiki: Clara Z.]-
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  -[Britannica.com: Ms. Z.]-
 

See also, esp:   -[On Women's Isues; HERitage and HIStory]-
                  (psp)

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