“Half the world for women – and half the home for men!”
As a publicist and writer, Alice Schwarzer has joined the ranks of feminists like Olympe de Gouges, Hedwig Dohm, Virgina Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir or Kate Millett, Shulamith Firestone and most recently Susan Faludi. In her autobiography, she tells of the major themes in her life and work, through which, for decades, she influenced – and still continues to influence – an entire country.
Without her, today’s Germany would look different. Alice Schwarzer has written history not only through spectacular television debates and her books, but also with the founding of the influential magazine EMMA and her public campaigns against pornography, the criminalization of abortion, violence against women and children, and male justice - to name only a few. The author’s vividly narrated look back over 50 years reveals the scope of her political interventions – all the way to #MeToo and her critique of political Islam.
The result is a book teeming with memories, encounters (with Angela Merkel, among others), insights into her life and positions.
