ZETKIN, Clara.

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Zur Frage des Frauenwahlrechts. First edition, based on Zetkin's pro-suffrage speech delivered at the fourth Socialist Conference of German Women in Mannheim in September 1906. Both the speech and the conference were steps towards the establishing of International Women's Day in 1911. The Mannheim conference heavily influenced the agenda of the first International Socialist Congress, held in Stuggart in 1907, which, along with the following congress of 1910 in Copenhagen, was preoccupied with the question of women's suffrage. It was at the latter event that Zetkin (1857-1933) proposed a celebratory day for women, modelled on the Socialist Party of America's "Woman's Day", as a strategy to promote women's right to vote. The first International Women's Day was held the following year, on 19 March 1911.One of the most prominent socialists of the period, Zetkin was the long-term editor of Die Gleicheit (Equality), the Social Democratic Party of Germany's newspaper for women. She viewed socialism and women's rights as necessarily intertwined and argued that women could not achieve equality under capitalism. In the year of this pamphlet's publication, she became the leader of the newly founded Women's Office at the SPD.

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