Gabriele Reuter – Das Problem der Ehe (The Problem of Marriage)

Gabriele Reuter's (1859-1941) rejection of marriage and education based on partnership resulted from her idea of the "primeval oppositeness of man and woman" and a woman's biological destiny "for a 'natural' motherhood which could not be lived out due to social constraints" (Stefan Jordan). In her essay Das Problem der Ehe, published in 1907, she attributes the discrepancy in nature between the two sexes not only to natural differences, but also to socio-cultural conditions.

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