Sexual Cripples and Moral Degenerates: Fin-de-siècle Austrian Women Writers on Male Sexuality and Masculinity

Schwartz, Agatha

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Sexual Cripples and Moral Degenerates: Fin-de-siècle Austrian Women Writers on Male Sexuality and Masculinity

Agatha Schwartz

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“…This segregation of the distaff side was to be one of the most deceptive expectations of Nietzscheanism. (Le Rider 1993, 105) For an overview of the response of Asenijeff, and other women writers such as Rosa Mayreder, Grete Meisel‐Hess, and Helene von Druskowitz to polarizing debates on issues of masculinity and femininity, particularly of “degenerate masculinity” see Schwartz 2008.…”

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A Nietzschean Feminist Rejoinder to the Mädchenbuch Controversy

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While sexual difference and cultural norms still largely limited the opportunities of most Wilhelmine girls and women to express themselves on issues of sexuality, gender, education, and class difference, a range of feminist writers encouraged their young audiences to question the radical social developments of the late Wilhelmine era. Few Mädchenbücher, however, seem to have been written by feminists who rejected both a traditional, cultural conservative ideology as well as a more radical socialist outlook. The eighteen short works of the Nietzschean feminist Elsa Asenijeff (1867–1941) that comprise Unschuld. Ein modernes Mädchenbuch (1901), illustrate her strategies in unsettling notions of Wilhelmine cultural and sexual (re)production by valorizing the creativity and radical individualism of young girls. Asenijeff’s enthusiasm for Genie and individual freedom, and her attempts to reconcile this with Nietzsche’s arguments regarding women’s biological destiny, position her as another example of the complex yet largely positive reception of Wilhelmine feminists to his teachings.

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Sexual Cripples and Moral Degenerates: Fin-de-siècle Austrian Women Writers on Male Sexuality and Masculinity

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A Nietzschean Feminist Rejoinder to the Mädchenbuch Controversy

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