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Austrian writer
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Female
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Birth:
18 April 1879(Prague, Duchy of Bohemia)
Death:
18 April 1922(Berlin, Germany)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Grete Meisel-Hess (18 April 1879, Prague - 18 April 1922, Berlin) was an Austrian Jewish feminist, who wrote novels, short stories and essays about women's need for sexual liberation.
Meisel-Hess lived in Vienna from 1893 to 1908. She viewed both anti-Semitism and anti-feminism as signs of degeneration which needed to be overcome by progressive politics.
She wrote for Franz Pfemfert's journal Die Aktion.
Works
- Die sexuelle Krise. Eine sozialpsychologische Untersuchung, 1909. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul as The sexual crisis: a critique of our sex life, 1917.
- Die Intellektuellen [The Intellectuals], 1911
- Sexuelle Rechte, 1914
- Betrachtungen zur Frauenfrage, 1914
- Die Bedeutung der Monogamie, 1916