Partizipatorische Staatsbürgerschaft: Geschlechtergrenzen und »citizenship« nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg

Referent/in: Kathleen Canning, Michigan/Freiburg

Abstract

This paper explores citizenship beyond its juristic prescriptions as a new imaginary of politics, one that took shape during the war and acquired legal form in the writing of the Weimar constitution. Yet the enactment of citizenship unleashed new visions and claims of political participation, social entitlement, and self-representation that took shape in the changing publics constituted by consumption, mass media and leisure. As such citizenship rights, even if far from constituting an »emancipation« of women, unsettled and challenged the gendered boundaries of politics during the Weimar Republic.