Louise Ottos Visions for Womens Emancipation. Studying the Genius Trilogy

路易丝·奥托-彼得斯（1819-1895；LO）是19世纪德国最杰出的女权主义者之一，她的思想和倡议塑造了第一次妇女运动。然而，她对妇女解放的愿景尚未得到彻底的研究。《天才》三部曲尤其如此，包括《天才之家》（1869）、《天才之人》（1870）和《天才之自然》（Humanität）。《自然的和谐》（1871年）。虽然罗女士强调这些书准确地反映了她对妇女权利问题的看法，但这三部曲至今仍被学术界忽视或造成困惑。因此，预期的来源研究首次全面调查了天才三部曲，并试图将其置于LO工作的背景下。它们的目的是编写一份关于劳工组织妇女解放愿景的特别研究报告。对《天才三部曲》的研究涉及以下几个问题：这些书的确切写作背景、它们的意图、它们的目标受众、所描绘的妇女解放的愿景、证明这些愿景的可辨性策略以及它们具体的媒体表现。对三部曲的学术评价是基于对其主要主张和意图的比较分析，以及在LO其他著作中制定的主张和意图。由于我自己在这一领域进行了广泛的初步工作，我将我的发现与我对《德国妇女》和《德意志帝国妇女》的研究结果进行了比较。将特别关注教育、工作、独立、自助和欧威-威布利奇的主题。此外，还将研究世俗的、哲学的、宗教的和其他产生感觉的方式之间的相互关系。在《新Bahnen》（ADF）上的主要文章和评论的基础上，我研究了她在创作《天才三部曲》时所考虑的当代观点，以及她所观察到的社会经济、政治和其他发展。这些研究有条不紊地按照性别作为一种不平等类别的概念进行，这种概念起着标记、资源和示踪的作用。此外，它们基于对性别交叉性和通俗历史概念的反思。来源研究有助于女性主义思想史的学术探索，LO在全球女性主义史中的作用，以及19世纪资产阶级无等级性别概念。他们也有社会政治议程。在2015年10月ADF成立150周年之际，这些发现可以通过提供对协会妇女解放愿景的新见解来丰富公众辩论。由LO领导的ADF标志着德国有组织的妇女运动的开始。

Louise Otto-Peters (1819-1895; LO) is one of the most eminent feminists in 19th century Germany, who shaped the first womens movement with her ideas and initiatives. Nevertheless, her visions for the emancipation of women have not yet been researched thoroughly. This is especially true for the Genius trilogy, comprising Der Genius des Hauses (1869), Der Genius der Menschheit im Dienste der Humanität (1870) and Der Genius der Natur. Harmonien der Natur zu dem Frauenleben der Gegenwart (1871). Although LO stressed that these books accurately reflect her views on the question of womens rights, the trilogy has so far been neglected by academia or caused bewilderment. Hence, the intended source studies investigate the Genius trilogy comprehensively for the first time, and seek to situate it in the context of LO work. They are meant to prepare a special study on LO visions for womens emancipation.The Genius trilogy is researched with regard to the following issues: the precise context in which the books were written, their intentions, their target audience, the depicted visions of womens emancipation, the discernable strategies of justifying these visions, and their specific medial representation. The scholarly assessment of the trilogy is based on a comparative analysis of its main propositions and intentions, and those formulated in LO other writings. Owing to my own extensive preliminary work in the field, I compare my findings with the results of my studies on Das Recht der Frauen auf Erwerb and Frauenleben im Deutschen Reich. Special attention will be paid to the topoi of education, work, independence, self-help, and the Ewig-Weibliche. Moreover, the interrelation between worldly, philosophical, religious, and other means of producing sense will be studied. On the basis of LO leading articles and reviews in Neue Bahnen, the publication of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Frauenverein (ADF), I research which contemporary views she contemplated and which socio-economic, political and other developments she observed whilst working on the Genius trilogy. Methodically, the studies are conducted in accordance with the notion of gender as a category of inequality that functions as marker, resource and tracer. Additionally, they are based upon reflections on the intersectionality of gender and the concept of popular history.The source studies contribute to the scholarly exploration of the history of feminist thought, of LO role in the global history of feminism and of bourgeois non-hierarchical conceptualisations of gender in the 19th century. They also have a socio-political agenda. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of ADF foundation in October 2015, the findings can enrich public debate by providing new insights into the association visions for the emancipation of women. The ADF, led by LO, marks the beginning of an organised womens movement in Germany.