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"[The book] has the potential to do the same for the relationship between man and woman as the communist manifesto for the relationship between capital and the proletariat." Denis Scheck ARD
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The Potent Women
Die potente Frau
A call for a new femininity
Für eine neue neue Weiblichkeit
The discussions around #metoo are still going strong. The one side complains that men are being openly crucified, while the others claim that the hashtag finally sheds light on a deeply rooted issue within our society: a devaluation of the feminine.
Svenja Flaßpöhler is critical of the hashtag feminism as she calls it. She praises its emancipatory will, but warns that the core of structural misogyny is not affected by this campaign, but rather confirmed.
She pleads for a new understanding of femininity. Only when women understand themselves and their lust as a potent entity, they free themselves from the victim role. Only when they do not merely demand autonomy, but dare to live, they are truly self-determined. And only in this way can the gender relationship succeed.
Svenja Flaßpöhler plädiert für eine neue Weiblichkeit. Erst wenn Frauen sich selbst und ihre Lust als potente Größe begreifen, befreien sie sich aus der Opferrolle. Erst wenn sie Autonomie nicht bloß einfordern, sondern wagen sie zu leben, sind sie wahrhaft selbstbestimmt. Und nur so kann das Geschlechterverhältnis gelingen.
Svenja Flaßpöhler, born in 1975, is the editor-in-chief of the "Philosophie Magazin". She was a literary critic on the television program Buchzeit (3Sat) and senior editor at Deutschlandfunk Kultur, where she presented the program Sein und Streit. Her books have been translated into several languages, most recently the much-publicized book Forgiving. Dealing With Guilt. She lives with her family in Berlin.
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