!!!Mayreder, Rosa geborene Obermayer

b. Vienna, Nov. 30, 1858, 
d. Vienna, Jan. 19, 1938, women's rights advocate. At first a painter, 
founded the "Allgemeiner Oesterreichischer Frauenverein",1893 (General 
Austrian Women's Association) and chaired the "Frauenliga fuer Frieden 
und Freiheit" (Women's league for peace and freedom). Wrote 
philosophical essays about the women's problem, established a 
sociology of the sexes and was a friend and supporter of H.  Wolf.

!Publications
Textbook for H. Wolf's Opera "Corregidor", 1895; novels, 
novellas, poems. - Zur Kritik der Weiblichkeit, 2 vols., 
1905/1922; Die Frau und der Internationalismus, 1921; Geschlecht und 
Kultur, 1923; Mensch und Menschlichkeit, 1928; Der letzte Gott, 1932; 
Diaries 1873-1937, ed. by. H. Anderson, 1988.

!Literature
H. Bubeniček (ed.), R. M. oder Wider die 
Tyrannei der Norm, 1986; R. Witzmann (ed.), R. M. und der 
Feminismus in Wien um 1900, exhibition catalogue, Vienna 1989; OeBL.



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