notes on presentation about women movements

some incomplete notes taken during the presentation about women movements:

-In earlier times women had to wear corsetts which was very unhealthy as they could hardly breath and move

- Nietzsche: holistic view of body and mind 

-life-reform: against mechanization, intellectualisation, urbanisation

 ( ~1901 )                   health was seen as beautiful

                    body culture connected to personal developement

                    Kneipp: be naked in nature

(~1911): Rudolf Bode: nature and irrational....important: working in the garden, air-bathing (naked but didn't have anything to do with eroticism), vegetarian food

part of that movement: Isadora Duncan, Mary Wigmann

discussing and living the question: What is a woman?

Women settlementes: Loheland (1912): connections to Rudolf Steiner (demeter agriculture)

                                    Schwarzerden: set up by Marie Buchhold and Elisabeth Vogler

                                                             vision of a gymnastic school for women

                                                              very poor, sometimes even suffered from hunger at the beginning, very                                                                     hard work, developed good relationships to farmers in the area

                                                               created own way of gymnastics: "Social gymnastics"

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