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Meine Emanzipation: Louise Hoche Aston and the Struggle for the 'Self' in Nineteenth Century Prussia

Stivers, Kendall Fisher
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1228439501

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2008, Master of Arts, Miami University, History.
This essay examines Louise Hoche Aston’s 1846 political tract Meine Emanzipation, Verweisung und Rechtfertigung to demonstrate how radical and daring Aston’s activities, writings, and personal beliefs were during a time when political and social dissent was met with extreme consequences; nineteenth-century Prussia. As a feminist and, even rarer, an atheist, Aston protested her forced removal from Berlin in 1846, writing both her defense and the details of her case in Meine Emanzipation. While detailing her brave stance against the Berlin police and Prussian government, Meine Emanzipation also stated Aston’s concept of “freedom of the self,” which held that everyone, regardless of their sex or religion, had the inalienable right to think and express themselves freely without fear of recourse from their government. This essay defends Aston against those who would label her progressive thinking and daring resistance against the Prussian police state as little more than a calculated “performance.”
Judith P. Zinsser (Advisor)
Mary E. Frederickson (Committee Member)
Erik N. Jensen (Committee Member)
40 p.
European History; Gender; History; Womens Studies
feminism; atheism; liberalism; Prussia; nineteenth century; womens rights;

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  • Stivers, K. F. (2008). Meine Emanzipation: Louise Hoche Aston and the Struggle for the 'Self' in Nineteenth Century Prussia [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1228439501

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stivers, Kendall. Meine Emanzipation: Louise Hoche Aston and the Struggle for the 'Self' in Nineteenth Century Prussia. 2008. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1228439501.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stivers, Kendall. "Meine Emanzipation: Louise Hoche Aston and the Struggle for the 'Self' in Nineteenth Century Prussia." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1228439501

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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