The struggle for abortion rights sparked the emergence of the Women’s Liberation Movement in West Germany 1971.

From the mid-1970s, feminists began to problematise the tyranny of trying to become slender and its consequences for women.

Research about as well as by women recieve a distinct space in the academy. Finally, women’s and gender studies led to the repeal of ‚woman‘ as a political category.

„We claim for an all-women room!“ That was the slogan of the autonomous women’s projects founded in the beginning of the 1970s.

In 1978 journalist Alice Schwarzer was the first voice to call for the full voluntary admission of women to combat roles because she rejected the biological dogma that underpinned the weapons ban. This was the beginning of a heated debate.

Self-determination and knowledge of one’s own body – women’s health initiatives were directed against a patronizing and patriarchal medicine that made the male body the point of reference while the female body was both medicalised and pathologised.

In the 19070ies feminist artists challenged the male-dominated art world – and fought for the visibility of female artists.

As the women’s movement got under way, law was almost exclusively administered by men. Feminists analyse that there is a “male justice”

Women want to have a voice in the Church – and not only as members of the congregation, but in dialogue with God and all the way up to leading positions within the church hierarchy.

It was the women’s movement that questioned the function of power in sexuality and unmasked the fact that love disguises power structures.