Grete Meisel-Hess
Illustration — Meisel-Hess, c. 1920 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.
Grete Meisel-Hess
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- 1879 · Prague.
- Died
- 1922 · Berlin.
- Nationality
- Austria
- Occupation
- writer · psychologist
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Meisel-Hess, c. 1920 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.
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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.
• 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
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• Helga Thorson, Grete Meisel-Hess: The New Woman and the Sexual Crisis. Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2022.
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