Clara Zetkin
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Government and Politics, Women’s Issues, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Economics
- Subcategories: Feminism, Feminists, Women’s Rights, Gender Issues, Sexism, Labor, Unions, Work, Employment, Socialism, Socialists
- Curriculum: Women’s History, 20th & 21st Century European History, 19th Century European History, German History
Article abstract: With Friedrich Engels and August Bebel, Zetkin pioneered a Marxist analysis of women’s status in a capitalist society. Her objective was to create a new social order free of political and economic oppression.
Early Life
Clara Eissner, the eldest of three children, was born in Wiederau near Leipzig in Saxony, a small town of textile workers and small farmers. Her father, Gottfried Eissner, poor but educated, was the village schoolteacher and church organist. His second wife, Josephine Vitale Eissner, was the widow of a doctor in...
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