Feminist Europe, Book Review: A Human Being Is Not a Program

This is an unabashedly partisan book, written by two of Alice Schwarzer's long-time friends. The authors make clear in the preface that they will counter the image of Schwarzer as a "verkniffene Emanze" [narrow-minded women's libber]: "We know the participants, we know better. Shouldn't their story be

Feminist Europe, Book Review: Coup de Grace for Petra Kelly

Alice Schwarzer's book about the Bastian/Kelly case poses the decisive question: Why did the public accept the "double suicide" hypothesis so readily? For it was murder. Napoleon is credited—probably erroneously—with a frank defmition of history: It is "a lie agreed upon by historians." Long

Feminist Europe, Book Review: Always Curious

What good luck that she was never interested in women's stuff and in 1945, immediately after her flight from East Prussia, chose to write "two rather long memoranda" to the British occupying power instead of helping to stir the barley soup. It was the beginning of a wonderful friendship, for the memoranda by

Feminist Europe, Book Review: A Talent Is Also a Destiny

Romy Schneider would have turned sixty in 1998, the year Alice Schwarzer's book was published. She died of cardiac arrest in 1982 at age 43. In her opinion, none of the 59 films she made was really outstanding; ten of them she considered good. Alice Schwarzer concurs with her appraisal, though not without repeatedly

Feminist Europe, Book Review: Schwarzer Sees the Difference

Actually, there is no difference at all. Men and women originate from one gender with two shapes. This is the finding of Alice Schwarzer's new book. She goes on to say that the "big" difference lies only in the sig-nificance we attach to gender, and demands that traditional role assignments finally be

Feminist Europe, Book Review: Women's History as It Was Lived

"Alice im Männerland"—the very title evokes the most diverse associations. In light of the famous "Wonderland" and Alice's voyages of discovery, the intended paradigm is easily recognized. In this book, which contains texts published between 1971 and 2001, Alice Schwarzer presents her very

Feminist Europe, Book Review: Machismo, Islamismo

Have we spent the last thirty years in a coma, not noticing the harbingers of danger? The Images of the collapsing Twin Towers in New York have shaken us awake. Since then, we have become more suspicious of the people from Islamic countries who live and work with us. The word "sleeper" has lost its harmless meaning.

Feminist Europe, Book Review: Prefeminist Girlhood

Two sixty-year old women on a quest for a lost era: Germany's most prominent feminist and her "best friend" from girlhood writing letters to each other in 2004. The two women have not seen each other for years, renew the friendship, hit it off just as in old times, and decide to share memories in an exchange

Feminist Europe, Book Review: Who Has the Answer?

Media reception of Alice Schwarzer's latest book, Die Antwort, reveals much about attitudes toward feminism in Germany as well as toward the author herself. More than any of her previous books, this one generated wide interest and was reviewed in most major news media. It was serialized in its entirety in the

Feminist Europe, Book Review: Who is she?

"My work is my life" was her motto: Simone de Beauvoir, French author, philosopher and Feminist. To ensure that this work is not forgotten, Alice Schwarzer took the 100* anniversary of de Beauvoir's birth to place her friend once again before the public. For Simone de Beauvoir's jubilee on 9 January 2008,

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