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，她以自己的思想和倡议开创了德国妇女运动的先河。然而，她对妇女解放的愿景还没有得到彻底的研究。天才三部曲尤其如此，包括《豪斯的天才》(1869)、《人性的天才》(1870)和《自然的天才》。Harmonien der Natur zu Dm Frauenleben der Gegenwart(1871年)。尽管罗强调这些书准确地反映了她对妇女权利问题的看法，但到目前为止，这三部曲一直被学术界忽视或引起困惑。因此，意向来源研究首次对《天才三部曲》进行全面考察，并试图将其置于罗作品的语境中。《天才三部曲》是从以下几个方面进行研究的：写书的确切背景，它们的意图，它们的目标受众，所描绘的妇女解放的愿景，为这些愿景辩护的可辨别的战略，以及它们特定的媒介表现。对三部曲的学术评价是基于对其主要命题和意图的比较分析，以及与其他著作中所阐述的命题和意图的比较分析。由于我自己在实地做了大量的前期工作，我将我的调查结果与我对德意志帝国妇女和德国妇女的研究结果进行比较。将特别关注教育、工作、独立、自助和鄂维吾尔-维布利切的政治问题。此外，还将研究世俗、哲学、宗教和其他产生意义的手段之间的相互关系。根据Lo在《德国妇女报》(ADF)的出版商Neue Bahnen上发表的主要文章和评论，我研究了她在创作天才三部曲时考虑到的当代观点以及她观察到的社会经济、政治和其他方面的发展。从方法上讲，这些研究是按照性别作为一种不平等类别的概念进行的，性别是一种标记物、资源和追踪器。此外，它们基于对性别和流行历史概念的交叉性的思考。来源研究有助于从学术上探索19世纪女权主义思想史、罗康瑞在全球女权主义史中的角色以及资产阶级对性别的非等级概念化。他们也有一个社会政治议程。在2015年10月ADF成立150周年之际，调查结果可以为该协会解放妇女的愿景提供新的见解，从而丰富公众辩论。由Lo领导的ADF标志着德国一场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.